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Article: HISTORIC ROUNDHOUSE IS ONCE AGAIN IN MOTION ; Real estate developer starts Van Briggle renovation
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- December 4, 2008
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One-hundred and twenty-one years ago, the building on the corner
of U.S. 24 and 21st Street was the Midland Terminal Railroad's
roundhouse. Soon, the building, which has housed Van Briggle Art
Pottery for the past 55 years, will cater to a different kind of
locomotion.
Local real estate developer Griffs/ Blessing Inc. bought the
property from the Stevenson family, which owns Van Briggle Pottery,
for approximately $2.5 million. Griffis/Blessing will spend another
$2.5 million to remodel the stone structure, a task that should be
completed in spring 2009. The anchor tenant for the remodeled
building will be Carmichael Training Systems, the fitness and health
company begun by Chris Carmichael. ...