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The Granby Street Apartments are located
in a renovated Ames Department Store in Norfolk, VA. When Julia visited
this building, she was under the impression that it was a renovated big
box building, meaning a large, one-room, free-standing building. However,
the Granby Street Apartments are a part of a downtown revitalization project
that is happening in Norfolk, and the Ames Department store is actually
an older building with many levels and many rooms. The renovation is a
beautiful example of adaptive re-use. There are approximately 49 apartments
in the building. The misunderstanding of the term "big box"
in her pre-visit research in Norfolk has led her to realize that it is
a fairly new term, and exploring what "big box building" means
to people has become an interesting aspect of the research. Julia articulates
"big box building" as a free-standing, warehouselike building,
with one main room taking up basically the entire building.
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