Originally housing the Julian and Kokenge Co. shoe factory, the building was rehabilitated for conversion to 90 residential apartments. Although previously deemed ineligible for National Register of Historic Places designation, we developed a strategy for correcting the building’s deficiencies and achieved National Register listing for the building in 2013. We also secured a historic conservation easement for the building in 2013, followed by successful federal and state historic tax applications in 2014, providing much needed funding in this $20 million project. The exterior windows were replaced and designed to replicate the original, and an extensive amount of concrete and masonry restoration work went into repairing the exterior elements of this building in order to exemplify its amazing transformation.