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The
Roger Building, once the old Recycler
building located in Silverlake, Los
Angeles, was a project that fell from the
sky and landed in my lap in 2004. The
13,000sf commercial building had been
empty for some time before it was
purchased by my then-current employer. It
was a mess inside. I had the interior
almost completely gutted and designed a
new floor plan that was to house the
record label I worked for and offer a
variety of office/studio spaces for lease.
Everything was replaced: new electrical,
new plumbing, new HVAC, new floors, walls,
ceilings, etc. The rebuild took a
miraculously short 3 months! At which
point the record label (CMH Records, Inc.)
moved in while the finishing touches were
put in place. The building is now fully
leased with great tenants such as the
Silverlake Neighborhood Council, the Los
Angeles PETA headquarters, Sotheby's Real
Estate and a variety of other businesses.
It was such a great and challenging
project to work on that I have now begun
to study architecture just so I can do it
again.
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