[CPEO-BIF] Fulton Factory demolition, Knoxville, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Requiem for the Fulton Plant
The elusive reason why a historic factory may be doomed


by Jack Neely
Knoxville Metro Pulse (TN)
December 6, 2006

The Fulton Factory's being torn down, starting this month. The heavy 
equipment's already there. The demolition permit has been duly filled 
out, and city officials say there's nothing they can do to stop it. As 
of this week, they still don't know why.

You know it; it's at the foot of the Strip, across from Tyson Park, the 
first address listed on Kingston Pike as it emerges from Cumberland 
Avenue. The factory, better known to a generation or two as Robertshaw 
Controls, is bigger than it looks from the pike; you can get a better 
idea of its size by looking at it across Third Creek from the bike 
trail. It goes on and on. It's nearly half a million square feet.

Some regard it as an eyesore, and in its current condition, parts of it 
aren't much for looks. But a big chunk of it's fascinating, in a prewar 
industrial cubist sort of way, and, for my money, more historic than 
most buildings that make the National Register.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2006/16_49/secret_history.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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