THE BENEFITS AND TECHNIQUES TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
“We gutted the Jeffrey HQ building and connected it to the R&D buildings with a bridge,” Dan Schmidt, principal at JDS Companies, said.
“The R&D building was interesting because it had a railroad track going through the center of it.
We kept the old board room for the HQ building and its two working fireplaces.
We kept the
stained-glass windows and commissioned large murals on the sides of the
buildings.”
Schmidt said there were challenges, including building an exterior elevator to serve industrial buildings that didn’t have residential elevators and necessary environmental remediation, among others.
Today, there’s a healthy waiting list for the apartments.
He noted that projects like his
could benefit from historic tax credits and other programs. Only a small
city-of-Columbus tax abatement was in place at the time he developed.
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