The "Preservationists" are at it again...

Even Louisville's grain silos have been proposed for adaptive reuse...as far back as 1962!

http://brokensidewalk.com/2011/06/14/lo ... ard-mills/

I'm trying to figure out where this was, exactly, and what is there now.

[Robin Garr]

And I think the Poe proposal with a facade incorporated into the new building is acceptable in this case. I am definitely one of the people who hates what we lost downtown, but I don't believe in throwing the baby out with the bath water regarding new development nowadays.

I think we are agreeing with each other, Gordon.

Even Louisville's grain silos have been proposed for adaptive reuse...as far back as 1962!

http://brokensidewalk.com/2011/06/14/lo ... ard-mills/

Speaking of silos...

In the late 70's developers in Akron took an old (abandoned) Quaker Oats Mill and turned it into this...Quaker Square, consisting of The Quaker Hilton (Later Crowne Hotel) along with a vast internal maze of quirky shops and restaurants. For the better part of the 80's it was a bustling hotel and shopping district. By the 90's the place had changed hands a couple of times and each subsequent owner sucked a little more equity out of the place (equity created courtesy of city loans) and attempted to squeeze the tenants for every dime in their tills (I believe the last deal included rent AND a % of profits...very mafia-like). By 2000 the place was a shell of what it had been and not too many years ago the place was finally sold (in a fire sale) to the University of Akron (My Alma Mater). Today the hotel is now student housing and the shops and studios are classrooms and studios for the art department.

I can feel your little preservationist gears turning right now...

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Even Louisville's grain silos have been proposed for adaptive reuse...as far back as 1962!

http://brokensidewalk.com/2011/06/14/lo ... ard-mills/

I'm trying to figure out where this was, exactly, and what is there now.

the address was 912 E. Broadway, it's right next to the river tracks on the opposite side from Baxter. 914 E. Broadway is now one of the offices for 7 Counties and the space between it and the river tracks is a small park and parking lot. He is a picture of it from 1919 the University of Louisville archives: http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cs/id/1179/rec/13