Legacy Development is seeking Preservation Board approval to make exterior changes on the Pearl Street side of the complex. The work is tied to Legacy’s upgrades to the complex including the addition of upper floor apartments, consolidation of office space into the lower levels, and expansion of the Tralf Music Hall.
The primary change is the addition of nine windows on the second level. Façade work is proposed, necessitated by the removal of a rear pavilion last year.
From the project application:
- Existing tile to be removed
- Existing steel to be cut and removed from original brick
- Existing brick to be fixed and patched to be restored to original façade
- Brick Façade shall be repainted.
- Existing awnings shall be removed in their entirety and any façade repairs shall be made accordingly to restore the original façade
- Previous infills shall be painted to match the rest of the façade
Interior work includes twenty-one, one-bedroom apartments on the third, fourth and fifth floors. The apartments, now leasing, contain typical luxury finishes such as granite counter-tops, gourmet kitchen appliances, storage facilities, top of the line plumbing and lighting fixtures and 12-foot exposed ceilings.
The building’s anchor office tenant, the local office of the Food & Drug Administration, is moving into renovated offices on the first floor. The Tralf is renovating its venue on the second floor while expanding into a portion of the former Club Marcella’s on the first floor. For the first time, the Tralf will have an outdoor patio along Pearl Street.
The Theater Place complex was redeveloped by a partnership between the City and Theater Place Associates, a group of 21 investors that included Alan Dewart, Irv Weinstein, and Irving Korn, with a heavy subsidy dose of UDAG funding. It consists of two buildings. The Otto-Kent Building, a five-story structure adjacent to Shea’s opened in 1896. In 1923, a covered area in the rear was added. It was built as the Main Central Market and later used as a dance hall and bowling alley. The two-story portion, the circa-1902 Root Building, was designed by E.B. Green.
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