Defunct warehouses to practice in; gigs played in former spy towers; inspirational conversations with resident novelists and circus performers — these were all the scenarios we discussed in excited anticipation.
On one of his regular reconnaissance trips in 1964, Cedric Hartman, a young Omahan who had gone to New York but returned and who later became a designer, suggested to Mercer that he turn his defunct warehouses into a district of stylish shops, restaurants, theaters, apartments.
Fimrite says the county's popular city, Santa Rosa, views marijuana as it does beer, wine and food: as a growth industry, building tourism, jobs and defunct warehouses.
From the western end and the defunct Domino Sugar warehouse, the street is lined with late-19th- and early-20th-century buildings, few more than four stories high, many with commercial storefronts.
Computer Shopper, another defunct title, offered a warehouse full of gear that a tech-loving father and son team could build on the kitchen table.
The area's warehouses and defunct socialist-era firms began transforming – into bars, galleries and creative hubs.
ChangePoint paid $1 million upfront and borrowed $23.5 million from a state economic development agency to buy a defunct seafood-packaging plant and warehouse out of foreclosure in July 2005.
I had worked here three years ago, when it had first opened, at the now defunct Paperclip World, a vast warehouse-style store, selling every conceivable kind and colour of paperclip known to man.
OOH LA LA RECYCLED 80 West Circular Street (518) 226-0363 This upscale consignment shop, which opened last December, is housed in a red-brick warehouse along a now-defunct railroad track.
And in an industrial park in Robbinsville, N.J., about an hour south of the port, the IDS Group recently moved into half of a one-million-square-foot facility that has been vacant since the now-defunct furniture company Seamans-Levitz shut its warehouse there in 2007.
