Paul McKee’s Next Move May Be Saving This Building

Will this be NorthSide’s first historic renovation? While the entire project seemed to be in a holding pattern for the past couple years, Paul McKee’s plan to reimagine 1,500 acres of the city chugged along. We learned Tuesday that the project’s $390M TIF is alive and landscape architecture guru Mark Johnson of Civitas had remained connected to NorthSide.

Now we’ve learned that McKee has successfully added the ABC Auto Sales and Investment Company Building at 3509-27 Page Boulevard to the National Register of Historic Places. While the designation doesn’t confer special protection for the building, it does allow the owner the opportunity to access historic tax credits for renovation. The nomination form states “The new owner anticipates a full historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the building.”