tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post2085806819695540025..comments2024-03-19T20:31:23.141-05:00Comments on The Chuck Cowdery Blog: About That Whiskey Warehouse Demolished YesterdayChuck Cowderyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12191121480961526039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-23463006717773455442022-09-08T10:11:32.000-05:002022-09-08T10:11:32.000-05:00That's a great take, Tom. Thanks!That's a great take, Tom. Thanks!Sam Komlenicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-50923224808632277442022-09-06T16:11:57.853-05:002022-09-06T16:11:57.853-05:00I used to work in Distillery Commons -- in the bui...I used to work in Distillery Commons -- in the building up Lexington from the one being demolished. It was a great place. We made TV shows there and my second floor office looked over Lexington into a rail car junkyard that reeked of diesel and tar bleeding slowly into Beargrass Creek and, eventually, the Ohio River.<br /><br />When we were thinking about building-out studio space, we looked at the corner building. It was a disaster, filled to knee-deep in some places with dead pigeons and even given its heavy construction, terrifyingly creaky. We did not stay long or give the place a second thought.<br /><br />Ray Schuman saved a couple of big pieces of that old distillery. It couldn't have been easy, and I'm sure he went through lean years where he must have been close to giving up. But he loved those old buildings and believed in their potential, and if this is in a way sad it's also part of the renovation of that whole neighborhood. It has gone from a literal junkyard to a residential area where hundreds of people have homes, with a gradeschool and coffee shop and live music hall that lights-up every weekend. And the environmentally disastrous runoff has been largely stopped. <br /><br />So: sentiment, sure, But in this case I think "progress" is really progress. Tom Johnsonnoreply@blogger.com