COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — If you have been traveling on Veterans Parkway near 13th Street, you have probably noticed construction on an old building.
Developers are adding a floor to a four-story building on 13th Street.
It's the dawn of a new day for an old downtown Columbus building.
Columbus builder and developer John Teeples is reworking 301 13th St. into apartments and condominiums. It's a long way from the old brick box that was once used as the Carmike Cinemas warehouse.
"You know we got a great location. It has some great views from the roof of the old building," Teeples said. "The other thing it will do and most importantly, make it a little more interesting. It was a pretty plain, not very nice looking box."
Teeples is planning 12 condos on the top two floors and 17 apartments on the second and third floors. It will be a mixture of owner-occupied and rental units.
"You see that very typically around the country in major metropolitan areas," Teeples said. "All over Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham they have this kind of development."
Two years ago, Columbus developer Chris Woodruff opened Highside Market in an old automobile dealership and began to push restaurants and retail farther east off Broadway. Woodruff welcomes what Teeples is doing.
"Nothing could be more gratifying and humbling than to look across the street and to see what John Teeples is doing by investing into this area of Columbus — the new-opportunity area of downtown Columbus," Woodruff said. "They are simpatico. You can't have retail without residential and you can't have residential without retail. It's the perfect storm."
This project is set for completion next June. Teeples said he will then do the same thing with a building he owns at 12th and Broadway.
"This is the beginning of what's going to happen at Raymond Rowe," Teeples said. "We are going to do the same thing over there. Same concept, business commercial on the first floor. Some combination of apartments and condos on the upper floors. And we will add another floor to that building. It is a little heftier than this building."
Teeples told WRBL he has not determined what the condos will sell for or the rental rates for the apartments.
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