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Old Posted Oct 13, 2015, 3:04 PM
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AND we lose a cool old warehouse for surface parking? Youch...I'm no preservationist but this is just bad planning for the context.

Agreed that the building itself is fine, it's the site plan that is garbage.
I'm still not sure that the warehouse is part of GK's The Bridges project.

The owner of the warehouse (Scott Sonoc) had his architecture firm offices in the building long ago, and he has been trying to shop that warehouse parcel to developers for ages. Sonoc is still the owner of record, or more accurately an entity controlled by him, so the property hasn't changed hands. Now that parcel has been deleted from the site plans for GK's development.

I guess we'll have to wait and see... I certainly hope it gets developed separately as a more traditional mixed use. That warehouse was a nice bit of historic character but tricky to reuse... Small window openings, and the first floor was elevated above grade so terrible for retail.
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