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Pop Goes Cork Factory: Strip District lofts offer views, resort-like amenities to tenants
Saturday, May 5, 2007 at 12:00PM Pop Goes Cork Factory: Strip District lofts offer views, resort-like amenities to tenants
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - May 05, 2007
By Marylynne Pitz
After nine years, Roberta Turkas grew weary of living over a Strip District business and answering calls at 10 p.m. asking if Farmers Choice Poultry and Meats was still open.
"I felt like I never left work. I went right upstairs and did bookkeeping. I'd look up and say, 'It's 10 o'clock. Time to go to bed.' "
Then her husband, Raymond Turkas Jr., noticed a leasing sign on The Cork Factory, 2349 Railroad St., a few blocks away from the couple's business at 2123 Penn Ave.
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