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Feeder Supply Project
WEST ADDITIONS DEMO NARRATIVE
(Updated June 24, 2013)
It is not feasible to rehabilitate the West Additions to the Feeder building (four small
additions/rooms) in accordance with City, State and National standards, because a) these
additions were very poorly designed and constructed and b) attempted rehabilitation of such
additions would be a failure because of footing, foundation, slab, wall and roof problems which
would be encountered. Essentially they would have to be totally rebuilt.
Also, these additions have not acquired any substantial historic significance in their own right.
They were used for miscellaneous storage, however, primary storage for the business has always
been in the large and structurally sound Warehouse Addition immediately adjacent to the Mill
Building.
And most importantly, the demolition of these structures will permit a successful plan to go
forward for the property including the compatible adaptive reuse of the Mill Building and
Warehouse Addition as a destination restaurant and other commercial uses, and a complementary
industrial-style Apartment.
See attached detailed study of the West Addition by Aller-Lingle-Massey, Architects,
commissioned by the Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority, which came to the same
conclusion that these structurally deficient and least historic West Additions be demoed as part
of the overall rehabilitation plan for the Mill Building and the Warehouse Addition.