Building description

The post-1950 building I chose to describe was once a warehouse. It had been abandoned before I moved into the neighborhood. I’m not exactly sure when it was renovated, but I know it was around 2000 give and take a few years. The building is roughly ten thousand square feet, plus or minus a thousand feet with a parking lot in the front. It is rectangular in shaped and made of brick and cement. It was renovated as a standard large commercial complex for big-box retail stores. It is divided into three sections to house three different stores; Trader Joe’s and Staples are located on the first floor while Michaels is located on the entire second floor. All three of the store names and logos are located on the top portion of the second floor. I believe there is also a basement to this building. You can see that the building is raised above street level, which causes me to believe there is a basement. There are only two openings to the building, one in the back for shipments and delivers and the main entrance in the front for customers. The inside of the building looks like your average large department store with false drop down ceiling and rows of florescent lighting, long isles that run from the front of the store to the rear and the atmosphere is controlled with central air conditioning. My description of the building is lacking details because I haven’t been there many times. I have only been to Staples a few times and have never even set foot in either of the two other stores. The best description I can give of the store is actually the impression it makes on me. Everything about the build screams factory line to me, from the perfectly rectangular shape of the build, to the identically measured rectangular bricks and the straight lined ninety degree windows. There is no personality, no fluidity and no life to the building. Everything is just so straight forward and perfect, designed like a Lego toy a child can easily follow the directions and build, a representation of modern industrialization of mass production and uniformity.