Michi, that apartment building on the Far Eastside was opened as the 524-room Savarine Hotel, and held on, in fact, until the early 1990's when it was convereted into low-income apartments, which fell into major disrepair before it was shut down, entirely, in 2004. It's going to be apartments, again.
It's being converted to 118 market-rate apartment units with groundfloor retail/commercial. Better yet, a local company, Urban Innovation Group, is doing the conversion, so all of this money is staying in town. I hope you keep up on this one so we can see it when it opens. It really is a strange building that sticks out like a sorethumb since so much around it (particularly, behind it) has been bulldozed.
BTW, Eric, please post these in the My Photos photo section on the forum. People would love to see these.
One last observation is that the Fifth Royal Oak looks so much fatter than it was rendered. It needs a diet.
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