A Montgomery County construction engineer and design-builder
is embarking on a $4 million project in Quakertown that could transform a
long-dormant hosiery factory into tech space.
Jerry Gorski, president of Gorski Engineering of
Collegeville, said he recently purchased the 60,000-square-foot property at 18
S. Fifth St., formerly the Best Made Silk Hosiery Co., and is converting it
into a technology facility.
"60,000 square feet will be reduced to a
45,000-square-foot building so the architectural elements will be
revealed," Gorski said. "We are just starting that renovation
process."
The adaptive reuse technique, which adds new architectural
elements and uses to existing buildings, can have economic benefits, according
to Gorski.
For this project, if the company were to build on a
greenfield site, which is a fresh site for new development, he said he would
need to buy four to five acres of land for landscape requirements, storm-water
management and other necessary elements, Gorski said.
"We would spend about $7 million to buy a building of
this size," Gorski said.
Source: LVB.com
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