As hopeful as I am, I’m in serious doubt that the building is salvageable. I will not personally admit to urban exploring in there for legal reasons as it is trespassing, but I will say from what I’ve heard…there are live wires dangling all over the place (the electricity is still on), parts of the ceiling have collapsed to where there are TV-sized holes in the floor where you can see the floor below, the walls have been torn open with asbestos insulation scattered everywhere, extensive water damage, black mold covering entire walls, corroded concrete with rebar visible, a rotten foundation, and a car-sized hole in the wall of the parking garage among other major structural damage. The frame of that building is 70 years old, and no one has been keeping up with the maintenance on it, combined with a decade of homeless people and urban explorers tearing the place up. That’s the reason why firms keep bailing. They see a cheap renovation cash cow of a $500,000 16-story building and crap their pants when they actually step inside the place and abandon their project ideas. There’s also trash piled to the ceiling everywhere and old building materials blocking entire floors as well as busted out windows, but that’s easily fixable. I’m extremely fearful of the structural integrity of that place and would rather have it torn down, especially in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.
Never say never. There's a building in Downtown Springfield that used to be a department store tower. It literally sat abandoned since the 1950s. Buyers came and went. Eventually someone actually commited. Today its a luxury apartment building.
As hopeful as I am, I’m in serious doubt that the building is salvageable. I will not personally admit to urban exploring in there for legal reasons as it is trespassing, but I will say from what I’ve heard…there are live wires dangling all over the place (the electricity is still on), parts of the ceiling have collapsed to where there are TV-sized holes in the floor where you can see the floor below, the walls have been torn open with asbestos insulation scattered everywhere, extensive water damage, black mold covering entire walls, corroded concrete with rebar visible, a rotten foundation, and a car-sized hole in the wall of the parking garage among other major structural damage. The frame of that building is 70 years old, and no one has been keeping up with the maintenance on it, combined with a decade of homeless people and urban explorers tearing the place up. That’s the reason why firms keep bailing. They see a cheap renovation cash cow of a $500,000 16-story building and crap their pants when they actually step inside the place and abandon their project ideas. There’s also trash piled to the ceiling everywhere and old building materials blocking entire floors as well as busted out windows, but that’s easily fixable. I’m extremely fearful of the structural integrity of that place and would rather have it torn down, especially in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.
I get all that but torn down? There’s no space and buildings way too close to it, renovation could be the best solution
Never say never. There's a building in Downtown Springfield that used to be a department store tower. It literally sat abandoned since the 1950s. Buyers came and went. Eventually someone actually commited. Today its a luxury apartment building.
yeah, I don't think I'd ever want to live in a 70 year old building that's been abandoned for 50 years, renovated or not