05/09/06
Building lofty expectations; Former industrial building to be converted into condos
Category: In the Press
Posted by: Riverbend Lofts
Racine Journal Times
03/09/2006
RACINE - One of the Downtown area's more daring housing projects, Riverbend Lofts, is ready to unveil what it will have to offer.
Riverbend Lofts is a four-story, former industrial building at Sixth and Marquette streets. The sign on the building, Badger Uniforms, reflects one of its last uses.
Riverbend Lofts is one of just two urban renewal projects taking place west of Marquette Street.
The other is a conversion and expansion of Shoreline Manor, 1403 W. Sixth St., into senior independent housing. That $2.5 million project got under way last fall.
Riverbend Lofts also pushes Downtown's revival westward by crossing Marquette Street.
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03/09/2006
RACINE - One of the Downtown area's more daring housing projects, Riverbend Lofts, is ready to unveil what it will have to offer.
Riverbend Lofts is a four-story, former industrial building at Sixth and Marquette streets. The sign on the building, Badger Uniforms, reflects one of its last uses.
Riverbend Lofts is one of just two urban renewal projects taking place west of Marquette Street.
The other is a conversion and expansion of Shoreline Manor, 1403 W. Sixth St., into senior independent housing. That $2.5 million project got under way last fall.
Riverbend Lofts also pushes Downtown's revival westward by crossing Marquette Street.
Read entire story