Curry and West Buildings

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Curry and West Buildings
The Curry and West buildings was built in 1890’s. Up until the early 1900’s the Curry Building was used as a combination wholesale and retail building. The product line varied from drug store type items to farm and garden supplies. During the same period of time the West Building housed a real estate business and also mortgage and loan business. Around the middle of the century the Curry Building converted exclusively to a drug store known as Curry Drug Store. Hardy Trust Company purchased the West Building around the 1930’s. Then in the late 1980’s was owned by the Hardy Reality Company. In the building you can still see the names of those businesses etched on the panes of glass in many of the doors still in the building. Before the building began renovations to become the new West Lofts, the building was abandoned and boarded up for 15 years. The city had to make a decision and force the owner to tear down a historic building or figure out a way to save it. The Rome Downtown Development Authority approved resolutions in support of $980,000 in low interest government loans to assist in the restoration of the residential and restaurant projects. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs, the DDA and the Georgia Cities Foundation help provide the loans to West Lofts and Honeymoon Bakery. The two projects combined represent an investment of more than $4.5 million to downtown Rome.. Lmc Properties is the company who decided to take on this massive project of restoring these historic buildings. They combined the Curry and West Buildings to make one structure. It was a very time consuming project that resulted in 18 lofts and ground level retail store fronts. With the completion of this project a piece of residential luxury housing was born, The West Lofts
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