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Charlie Shugart wrote
Tearing down old buildings always raises the question, why not re-purpose it?
Images like yours help explain it imo.
As complex as the working innards of the factory were, what else could it be used for except what it was specifically designed to do?
Yes, in this case the main buildings are pretty much built around the equipment. The largest building (which is really three buildings sharing an outer wall) has been landmarked, so the outside can't be torn down. The developer plans to gut it down to an empty shell, and build a new commercial building inside. Which sounds expensive! The other buildings are slated for demolition. Which is too bad; they're such great fixtures on the landscape.
None of this is final. The developer needs to jump through a lot of approval hoops, and there's a lot of opposition from neighborhood and historical orgs.
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