480 New Holland Avenue Lancaster, PA
The historic brick buildings here at Urban Place represent one of the city’s most successful adaptive-reuse projects. This former factory complex was transformed into a boutique hotel, gourmet restaurant, apartments, and commercial space.
The site was home to Armstrong Cork Company. Architect C. Emlen Urban designed this Building Number 8 in 1901. Later Kerr Glass Manufacturing produced bottles and caps here at this complex. These factory buildings were constructed from the 1860s to the 1930s.
In 2012 Barry and Linda Baldwin and their family completed an eight-year re-invention of this site, to rave reviews. They converted the factory buildings into the Cork Factory Hotel, the Cork and Cap Restaurant, commercial / retail space, wedding / events space, and 46 apartments.
Today Urban Place continues to maintain standards of excellence for urban renewal and mixed-use development. Thanks to Deb Oesch for informing me that Architect C. Emlen Urban designed this building.