W. Fort Street Buildings

Couple interesting building updates from West Fort:

Steel framing is going up on the building at the corner of 6th and W. Fort. Yay.

At the old warehouse building directly across the street from the Salvation Army warehouse and HQ, a team of guys was out powerwashing the exterior this evening around 6:30. Not sure if they were cleaning the graffiti off, or may be prepping for that work, but it's good to see. Now, if they would only pull all the weeds in the sidewalk, that segment of Fort would look pretty good.

Just down the street, west of Rosa Parks, the large old industrial building [[~6 floors) on the south side is looking worse than before. This building was significantly cleaned up a few years back, and had new windows and doors put on. Since then it has sat, till several months ago, something smashed into a window frame on the top most floor, west side of the building, impacting the frame and breaking all the windows. It has not been repaired. Now, someone has gotten in and it appears they have opened many of the movable windows... not so good. Isn't this building also owned by Mr. Russell Industrial Center/Mr. Looking at the Lafayette? Maybe he could pump a little money into it to secure it and fix the windows? No?

Finally, does anyone have any photos of the Main Post Office, maybe of the back where the old FSUD viaduct went, or the 10th Street side, where the railroad tracks went into the lower level?

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Originally Posted by Rocko

Isn't this building also owned by Mr. Russell Industrial Center/Mr. Looking at the Lafayette?

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You mean Mr. Keffleflilolanos? Or is it Kellfaliffalinos? :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Rocko

At the old warehouse building directly across the street from the Salvation Army warehouse and HQ, a team of guys was out powerwashing the exterior this evening around 6:30. Not sure if they were cleaning the graffiti off, or may be prepping for that work, but it's good to see. Now, if they would only pull all the weeds in the sidewalk, that segment of Fort would look pretty good.

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When I drove by around 3 today, they were on a cherry-picker and there were holes punched into the cinder block that had filled in the windows on the Fort Street side. Looked like they might be removing it? Pure speculation, though.

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Originally Posted by Rocko

At the old warehouse building directly across the street from the Salvation Army warehouse and HQ, a team of guys was out powerwashing the exterior this evening around 6:30. Not sure if they were cleaning the graffiti off, or may be prepping for that work, but it's good to see. Now, if they would only pull all the weeds in the sidewalk, that segment of Fort would look pretty good.

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Is that The Display Group's warehouse?

http://www.displaygroup.com/v2.0/index.php

I used to work at the building at 12th and Fort you mentioned [[1915 Fort, built for JL Hudson, where the Thanksgiving day parade was built and marshalled). The new owner did a lot of work initially [[fall, 2004) put all new windows in, put EFIS up on the Fort street side, then stopped. We took good care of that building when our company owned it, always kept the grass cut, weeds controlled, kept people from selling parking for the fireworks on the lot across 12th.
I honestly don't know what he plans on doing there, almost five years have gone by and zero activity, after all that initial investment.