New girl scout hq almost finished (Charleston, Milton: sales, 2013, tile)
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my hat is off for the girl scouts, who turned this depressed property/eyesore into a beautiful facility. The West Side has still got a ways to go, but the community is doing very well considering where it came from.
I wouldn't call it a "depressed property" or "eyesore." It was a once-elegant elegant and very solidly constructed 1920s car showroom with a red tile roof. I bought a couple of cars there, and I was last in there in summer 2005 and it certainly wasn't a ramshackle or blighted building . LOL Get rid of the coach lamps and put a 1920s display window back on the front instead of that inappropriate aluminum stuff, and it would have been elegant again and would have preserved some of the West Side's history and character.
The "Urban Camp" building to the east, with the red brick front on it now, was never a body shop in my time there. It was an auto parts place a couple of times, I believe. It has horses on the front because it was once the Charleston store of Riverbend tack shop of Milton. It was a fun place to browse on my lunch hour.
The body shop was across the street from that "Urban Camp" building, on the north side of Va St W. Charleston Lincoln Mercury had a car lot to the to the west on Va St W, and also had one directly across the street from the dealership building.
It's nice that the Girl Scouts made use of those buildings. But it's more West Side history lost. I grabbed some screen shots with Google Earth. They show vacant dealership after the 2011 sale.
Last edited by SorryIMovedBack; 01-29-2014 at 02:01 PM..
Those do look very nice! I just remember the building in recent years lacking the eloquence that it once had. That whole part of town is ripe for some urban renewal. I would like to see the effort continue along with the already going effort along Washington Street.
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