Renewed interest from a developer to turn Firestone Plant #1 into a residential mixed-use project is a “moonshot,” Akron’s economic development director said in an email, but one the city would pursue to try to save the 116-year-old building.
In a Jan. 21 email to the State Historic Preservation Office, obtained through a public records request, Suzie Graham Moore said she’d talked to “a developer familiar with the building who has renewed interest in developing the site.”
The city wanted to pursue conversations to see if the proposed residential redevelopment was a “feasible inquiry,” Graham Moore said in the email, while continuing to work toward an agreement with SHPO regarding Akron’s plan to demolish the historic property…