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Location:
500 East Third St. - Dayton OH

Project:
Adaptive reuse of six turn-of-the-century commercial buildings as a 153 unit loft development with street level retail

Scope:
Architectural design, historic tax credit coordination, leasehold improvements

Size:
225,000 sq. ft. renovation

projects» the cannery

Before: Six old buildings, in two sets of three. One block. Underutilized, undervalued and unappreciated.

After: One mixed use 6-floor complex of; 153 loft apartments upstairs, from cozy studios to spacious 3 bedroom units; ground floor commercial space. 225,000 square feet renovated, 15 million dollar budget, with historic tax credits.

Downtown living was coming slowly to Dayton. This building changed that. Quickly becoming both fully occupied and the hip place for young single people to live, the Cannery is an interesting adaptive reuse project that created a new vibe from the moment the doors opened. Rogero Buckman Architects also designed the spaces for key retail tenants Go Home, Therapy Cafþ and Square One Salon and Day Spa.

Creatively melding 6 distinct buildings into one; with different floor and ceiling heights, irregular shaped buildings, and working within Chapter 34 requirements for the historic tax credit, the Cannery was a complex project. Leaving a distinctively industrial feel to the units helped set them apart from other offerings that came online at about the same time. The complex was named the Cannery because one of the buildings used to house a canning plant. The residents have come to think of it more as Dayton's Melrose Place, thanks to the mix of people it has attracted to downtown living.