Before moving into the building, she renovated it from top to bottom, spending around 300,000 euros.
They renovated it from scratch and remember how their daughter, then an adolescent, used an empty drywall compound container as her night table.
I know of one neighbor who, when the house next door to hers was abandoned, bought the house herself, renovated it from top to bottom, and sold it, all to insure that her block would remain viable.
After buying the home in 2005 for about $11 million, according to city records, Mr. Gleacher renovated it from top to bottom, adding a hydraulic elevator and a dumbwaiter accessible on each floor.
He thought he would acquire the building, renovate it from the ground up and turn it into a ginormous startup campus — 366,000ft2 or 34,000m2.
The men bought the cottage in 1997 and set about repairing and renovating it with help from Jay Turnbull, a San Francisco architect and Maybeck scholar.
Common Ground bought the building in 1997 and began renovating it with $40 million in financing from city and state agencies.
SHAMSUDDIN RIZA knows a thing or two about gut rehab, the term used to describe tearing apart a structure from the inside and renovating it.
But Stanley Saitowitz, the designer he hired to renovate it, remembered the warehouse from its Capp Street days and set about reclaiming it as a place for making art.
But the Museum of Arts and Design is poised to buy it from the city, renovate it and move in -- and in the process save the one last blighted corner of Columbus Circle.
