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Press: Lofts and art space take shape, while going green

Posted April 14th, 2008 by director
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Purple flowers on the green roof at the Fay Street Lofts and The Warehouse Studios aren’t the only thing starting to bloom this spring over at the old Diggs building, formerly a meatpacking plant.

Don Shrubshell photo

By ANNIE NELSON of the Tribune’s staff

Published Sunday, April 13, 2008

Columbia’s second warehouse art studio space is a project of founder Stephanie Lyons and local architect Brian Pape, and it will differ from the Orr Street Studios by offering live-in loft spaces, as well as open studio memberships, or access for artists to work space for a $99 a month membership fee. Warehouse Studios also will offer private studios similar to Orr Street Studios, Lyons said.

On the south side of the building - the commercial side that will hold retail space, classrooms, a gallery, private studios and open studio space - dividing walls have been built, drywall is going up, sprinklers are in and the oak staircase leading to the second floor is installed.

Press: Nice picture. Pape and his sedum roof.

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By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Published Monday, April 14, 2008

Columbia has its first green roof. Stephanie Lyons and Brian Pape are remodeling the old Diggs Packing plant into artists’ studios and loft apartments. Atop the roof, sedum is growing.

Architect Pape has designed all the green elements he can come up with into the building, but surely the most intriguing is the live plants on the roof.

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