Ugh. That really sucks. I’m in favor of density, but i think this is a loss for the city. Most developers are going to do what is best for the bottom line. It is on the city to protect buildings like this.
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Interesting that the developer chose not to save any of this building and it local competitor, Pine State Ice Cream is being developed on Glenwood South, partially anyway…
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RIP White Building, but in happier news, down goes a big crappy surface lot and in come lots more downtown residents!
From this:
To this:
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Sure, more residents is good but does anyone really contend that you couldn’t still build apartments with similar construction / design over that surface lot and KEEP the older building, repurpose it and even convert the roof to an amenity space? No, it just didn’t pencil out with the highest profit structure.
Adaptive Reuse is not a four letter word, it just requires creative tenacity…
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We’re entirely on the same page. I think that’s what most people want, and it’s a shame that it’s not happening that way.
I just wanted to have a little moment of joy that one of DTR’s massive collection of surface parking lots is biting the dust and more people will be living downtown.
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Pretty cynical Ehh….
Yeah, kind of like how you feel when you go to a new city only to find out there is no Gucci store. Its not good.
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Shut up…… Almost every major city has one.
the view the school for the blind had always. lol
How many cranes will it have
Took a couple pictures, and snagged one of the light colored bricks from the front of the building as a keepsake.
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Trespassing and thievery? 
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Citizens arrest. Book him!
I was at that show! It was a live showing of the “That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast.” It was a great show.
The building was definitely interesting. The show room had the walls repainted, and side rooms and hallways were blocked off with thick, velvety curtains (very nice). The windows had this nice thick paper to block out light. Behind those curtains, however, was very much everything K&W cafeteria - the old buffets, walls with decals, brown tiles, etc. The bathrooms were more of the same - complete with the toilet flush handles that were at shoulder level (if you can’t get your foot up or bend over to flush 
).
I didn’t get any pictures of the interior itself, so enjoy the screen image from the podcast while everyone was waiting for the show to start:
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Sounds like they just did the bare minimum to spruce up the space they needed for the club while they wait for their (future) permanent home a few blocks away! I’ve yet to see a show at this new temp. spot but may go see some buddies perform their headline show later this week.
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Anyone have any updates on when they plan to start working on this? Seems like the block has been dead since demo. Thought we would have seen some more movement by now.