Residents of Jackson, Mich., initially accepted the news that the local National Guard would be vacating its 19-acre armory complex in the heart of the city with a bit of dismay.
Construction will soon begin on the redevelopment of the Lemp Brewery site, bringing offices, restaurants, shops, and 400 apartments to the complex of red brick buildings.
The first time Carl Dranoff entered the Victor building on the Camden, N.J., waterfront, he wore a hard hat and steel-toe boots and carried a flashlight—the only way to safely navigate the abandoned manufacturing plant.
The Lord Tarleton Hotel, an iconic Art Deco 1940s hotel in Miami Beach, is reborn as a luxury beachfront apartment complex.
It was 1954, and Futurism was all the rage. Automobile designers rolled out streamlined cars with swooping tailfins and gleaming chrome; fashion designers paired astronaut-chic miniskirts with goggles; and famed architect Wallace K. Harrison designed the shimmering, aluminum-clad Republic Tower in downtown Dallas.