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[mzweig]

I have a new project that I am working on.  It is 15 N. Church St.-- the former home of 40/29 and before that, Ozarks Electric Warehouse.  My plan is to completely redo the building and turn it into 8 condos ranging from a little over 500 sq. ft. to around 1300 sq feet at largest.  Would also carve a lot/yard off and build a new house on locust, as the property goes clear thru from Church to Locust.   I have the property under contract.  Have not closed yet. Plan on closing mid-August if all goes well.  

Everyone thinks condos are crazy, but in my opinion the ones for sale have been either poorly-designed, too expensive, in the wrong location, or some combination of all of those.  I am designing this project with a lot of help from local architect, Jim Key, who also did the conversion of the derelict Curry's Video building into the Skatetorium-- what i considered to be a real transformation of a turd into something quite nice (tho I desperately want to see the owners cut down the horrible weeds sprouting all around it!)

Mark

[Mith242]

mzweig, on 12 July 2011 - 04:21 PM, said:

I have a new project that I am working on.  It is 15 N. Church St.-- the former home of 40/29 and before that, Ozarks Electric Warehouse.  My plan is to completely redo the building and turn it into 8 condos ranging from a little over 500 sq. ft. to around 1300 sq feet at largest.  Would also carve a lot/yard off and build a new house on locust, as the property goes clear thru from Church to Locust.   I have the property under contract.  Have not closed yet. Plan on closing mid-August if all goes well.  

Everyone thinks condos are crazy, but in my opinion the ones for sale have been either poorly-designed, too expensive, in the wrong location, or some combination of all of those.  I am designing this project with a lot of help from local architect, Jim Key, who also did the conversion of the derelict Curry's Video building into the Skatetorium-- what i considered to be a real transformation of a turd into something quite nice (tho I desperately want to see the owners cut down the horrible weeds sprouting all around it!)

Mark

Sounds great.  I"m curious to see how this project comes out.  I also agree with you.  I think there is still some demand for condos.  But as you already mentioned.  Most of what's out there mainly caters to only a specific portion of the population.  I certainly hope you do well with this project.  Not just because I like to see you do well in general.  But these are the type of projects I like to see happen here.

[mzweig]

Mith242, on 13 July 2011 - 02:27 PM, said:

Sounds great.  I"m curious to see how this project comes out.  I also agree with you.  I think there is still some demand for condos.  But as you already mentioned.  Most of what's out there mainly caters to only a specific portion of the population.  I certainly hope you do well with this project.  Not just because I like to see you do well in general.  But these are the type of projects I like to see happen here.

Thanks, Rod.  I predict that soon there will be a rental housing shortage in the downtown/campus area that will spread to a shortage of properties for sale.  Student population is growing and some portion of executive transferees are going to be reluctant to buy....

Mark

[wmr]

Dickson Street Liquor has broken ground on a project that will expand their building and add a condo up top.  There's a sign with a rendering down there at the site if anybody happens to get by with a decent camera.

[Mith242]

wmr, on 13 February 2012 - 11:54 AM, said:

Dickson Street Liquor has broken ground on a project that will expand their building and add a condo up top.  There's a sign with a rendering down there at the site if anybody happens to get by with a decent camera.

Thanks for the info.  I had been by that area a while back and noticed it looked like they were preparing for some sort of construction.  But I had no idea on what it was exactly.  While expanding the store isn't that big of a surprise to me, the condo is.  Maybe this weekend I can try to swing by, unless someone else beats me to it.

[Mith242]

I ended up being sick over the weekend so I didn't get out to take any pics.  But I did drive by the site on Dickson St.  I saw the signs but didn't get a great look while driving.

[wmr]

Check it out:

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[mzweig]

wmr, on 20 February 2012 - 11:19 PM, said:

Check it out:

I heard Albert Skiles designed this. Putting that box right next to the existing struture with its extreme roof pitch dumping water right next to it is typical of something Skiles would do.  Not a good idea in my opinion.

[Mith242]

I was looking at Modus Studio's website to see if I could find some more info on the 555 Maple project when I came across something called Collier Plaza.  Looks like this could be some sort of possible resurrection of the St Charles Plaza idea from a few years ago.  Has anyone heard anything about this?  Here's a link to their website.

http://www.modusstud.../collier-place/

And an example of one of the renderings of their website.

[wmr]

OMG.  I mean wow.  Fayetteville is about to become the best college town around.  If all of these Modus projects get built, and a few more developments happen, how amazing is the downtown area going to be?  I can't even imagine this.

[thewizard16]

wmr, on 04 April 2012 - 04:46 PM, said:

OMG.  I mean wow.  Fayetteville is about to become the best college town around.  If all of these Modus projects get built, and a few more developments happen, how amazing is the downtown area going to be?  I can't even imagine this.

I think it already is, of course, but these kinds of downtown projects that have started sprouting up are very impressive and will certainly enhance the feel of the overall downtown area. Very impressed with the direction things are headed in downtown Fayetteville, the pace of development is impressive.