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| 05/14/2009 “MIDTOWN” MAKEOVER, A NEWLY RENOVATED APARTMENT BUILDING COMPLETES BEARDEN’S CHIC APPEAL Bearden’s gone upscale, but it hasn’t gone up. It remains a relatively low-rise commercial strip backed up by suburban neighborhoods of single-family housing. There is, however, one rather notable exception. The tallest building in Bearden by far, 414 Forest Park, would be taller than many downtown buildings, too. And, like many of the residential buildings downtown, it’s fresh from a recent renovation. |
| 03/08/2009 NEW AND FAMILIAR: ACCOUNTING FIRM FINDS ANOTHER INTERESTING HOME A local accounting firm's grand experiment in architectural re-imagining is coming to an end. Its newest experiment is about to get started, though. Since 1992, Pershing Yoakley & Associates has operated out of One Perkins Place, the former Perkins Elementary School that opened in 1927 and is located on Portland Street, just west of the Concord Street-Sutherland Avenue intersection. |
| 03/08/2009 A MODEL MILL AND A NEW STANDARD? Preservationists often encounter abandoned historic mills these days. The withering of the textile industry in the United States left hundreds of them sitting empty and vulnerable around the country - but especially in the South where the industry was the backbone of many local economies. Some people see them as massive white elephants only valuable for the bricks that form them and the land under them. |
