Posted Aug 15, 2018, 6:06 PM
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Hopeful Graduate
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Dallas
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Deep Ellum (eastside)
The mall-ing of Deep Ellum continues as artists are forced to move out of 130-year-old Continental Gin
Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist
August 14, 2018
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/c...multi-use-mall
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One of this city's oldest buildings — 130 years, same age as the state Capitol building — will be given a "major overhaul," in the words of its new owners. Which is to say, in coming months its load-bearing walls, cracked because of years spent exposed to moisture, will be made solid again. A roof that spent decades shouldering the weight of standing water will be replaced. Its bricks will no longer crumble to the touch.
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According to renderings presented to City Hall's Urban Design Peer Review Panel earlier this summer, the new owners — Dallas' August Family Partnership — are planning to convert Robert S. Munger's cotton gin into a multi-use complex. That means 42,000 square feet of office space and 21,000 square feet of retail. There will be a restaurant, too, on the ground floor.
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The landmark's decades-long tenure as an artists' safe haven, where rent is around one dollar per square foot, is coming to an end. And that is a heart-breaking moment worth noting. Because friends, colleagues and collaborators, among them painters and sculptors and clothing designers, will be scattered across the city -- maybe further, because of the lack of affordable space anywhere in Dallas.
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