The building looks beaten up, but “structurally, it’s in good shape,” he said.
“If you took all of the block out, like we’ve done on the (former Champion Paper) mills, and replaced that with glass, when you’re inside there, it’s just an astonishing view across the river into the city,” Beiler said.
“I thought he was nuts when he first told me that,” said Hamilton Economic Development Director Jody Gunderson. “Until he took me up there, and we went up into that place, and it’s like, ‘OK, I’m a believer now,’ because it would be absolutely amazing to have that view.”
“It’s going to have an incredible view. And he’s absolutely right. It was built like it was intended to go through some heavy-duty kind of industrial-type business, and it certainly did that, and it held up amazingly. Now to repurpose it into something that would be residential would be absolutely amazing.”
“And he is bullish about it. There’s no doubt about it.”
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