Development
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It’s no secret that the Sanitary Laundry Building has long been one of those “what if” projects, the kind that sparked imagination but never quite found the right champion. Anyone with half an imagination could see the potential of the unique industrial structure with a fascinating history and windows-to-die-for, but nobody wanted to touch it.
Until McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architecture (MHM) stepped up. Within the astonishingly short time span of a year (not counting a substantial amount of homework beforehand), the firm purchased, restored and moved its own office into the 30,000-sq.-ft. 1925 industrial building at 625 N. Broadway, transforming it from a deteriorating shell into a contemporary, light-filled workspace that still honors its history.
When I met MHM Associate Principal Kathryn Greer and Design Manager/Senior Associate Haley Zimmerman for a tour last week, they half-joked that along with Principal Nathan Honeycutt they were “the only ones crazy enough to do the development.” And they did it on a self-imposed tight timetable…