"It's rare that developer Robert Ball sees an old building that he doesn't like. The 35-year-old Northwest Portlander wears many hats, but he's most comfortable when he gets to come up with ways to refurbish a historic building. ...
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"Nobody knows why the architecture firm of Daniel H. Burnham and Company designed Portland's Marshall Wells Warehouse the way it did...
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"Inside the old Marshall Wells Hardware Co. at Northwest 14th and Lovejoy streets in Portland is the makings of what Robert D. Ball considers a "jewel." To nearly everyone else, it would be only the emptiness of deep warehouse space, devoid of any light." ...
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"Robert D. Ball makes no claim to being a magician, but from mere Bits & Pieces, he says a seven-story loft condominim building will materialize in Northwest Portland's Pearl District...
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"More than 100 of the 164 light-flooded residential spaces have already been snapped up - months before the project's expected completion in August. "Everyone's just glomming on to this project, because its a real loft," Ball says. ...
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