Strip District woman enjoys her airy Brake House space
Friday, December 13, 2002 at 12:00PM Strip District woman enjoys her airy Brake House space
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - December 13, 2002
By William Loeffler
Boosters of the Shadyside shopping district might be pleased to know that their striped awnings and Benetton chic reminded Meryl Macklin of Beverly Hills, Calif. Thing is, the native Clevelander had spent 20 years living in or near the real thing in Los Angeles. Been there, done that, she says.
"I had always wanted to live in a loft since I knew such a thing existed," says Macklin, an attorney with the Downtown law firm of Cohen & Grigsby. "I had this idea of living in an old industrial building on the river, watching the barges go up and down."
Enter Eve Picker, local loft baroness whose transformation of warehouses into urban living spaces is helping to repatriate Downtown Pittsburgh. Picker, president of no wall productions, spent $2.5 million converting the former Kerotest Building at 2501 Liberty Ave. in the Strip District. Her partners in the project were Montgomery and Rust and Edge Architecture.
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