Sunday, October 23, 2011

Wellman Project Proceeds With New Storefront Spaces



Jamestown Post-Journal, 10/20/2011.

Excerpt: The corner of Cherry and East Third streets now offers a room with a view, as the first pair of vacant commercial spaces at the Wellman Building are being primed for future tenants.

Joe Jacobi, property manager from Ontario Specialty Contracting Inc., said that while the upper-floor apartments are proceeding, the ground floor is also getting a makeover - using original drawings and photographs to restore it to its 1898 likeness.

He said the storefront-friendly space is being left in its "vanilla box" mode, with bare drywall and simple lights left suspended. The building offers a combined 9,000 square feet, divided into four units with two facing East Third Street and the other two facing Cherry Street.

"It's going to be ready for somebody to move in, but the finishes aren't done," Jacobi said, "so that we can finish it to whatever that tenant's needs are."

With respect to new downtown tenants, he added, "We are talking to people all the time, but we haven't solidified anything
."

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