The Chief was just saying that the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mill Lofts ‘pancake collapsed’?
If that’s the case I’d expect to see a fatality or two from this. That is a fairly large residential loft building and with a dozen or so units. Mostly young professionals and such live there. I’ve known ppl who lived there, but not anymore.
Prayers...
The building was already evacuated before it collapsed, unless I’m wrong. They reported that the news crews were being backed up and that it was in danger of collapse about an hour ago, so I hope there was no-one inside. The FD was on-scene before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Bag_and_Cotton_Mill
Current Site
In 1997 Aderhold Properties redeveloped the historic Fulton
Cotton Mill in Atlanta into a mixed-income community of 182 loft apartments.
On Friday, March 14, 2008 around 9:30 pm, a portion of the roof was ripped off the Fulton Cotton Mill by a possible tornado. The building has since partially collapsed in on itself. Atlanta Police have secured the area and evacuated the residents of the building.
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
History...
Construction on the Current Site
After receiving financial backing from Cincinnati banker Lewis Seasongood, the company began construction of a new complex of buildings on the south side of the Georgia Railroad line, east of downtown. By 1881 the company had become known as the Fulton Cotton Spinning Company, adding a bag factory to the new site in 1882. By the end of the 1880s the partnership between Jacob Elsas and Isaac May had discontinued. One part of the company evolved into the Elsas, May Paper Company and the other, led by Jacob Elsas and incorporated in 1889, became the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Company.
Within a few years Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Company had outgrown the capacity of the existing buildings, resulting in the construction of a second mill on the Atlanta site in 1895, with more than 40,000 spindles. A third mill added 50,000 additional spindles by 1907. In addition, a neighboring village with housing for the mill workers was well established by the turn of the twentieth century. Bag plants in New Orleans and St. Louis were bought during the 1890s, and mills in New York and Dallas began operation in the early years of the twentieth century. Additional plants in Minneapolis and Kansas City were established during and after World War I, and a plant in Denver was added in 1945, at the end of World War II. Expansion of the Atlanta plant also continued throughout the first half of the twentieth century: Offices, two picker buildings, and several warehouses were constructed during these years, and the Jacob Elsas Clinic and Nursery was established in the early 1940s.
Apparently there was a fire in the building a while ago - don’t remember how long ago they said it was though - recent enough for them to say they’ve had “recent” bad luck there.
A shame the building has collapsed — for the historical value, as well as for all the people who have now lost their belongings... Prayers there are no injuries there.
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**** 1881 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill - 170 Boulevard (Cabbagetown) ****
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