I wanted to crash my car into the building, but when I saw its lineup of protective bollards I decided I wouldn't even bother to try.
According to Google Streetview, the "MOVED TO 6145 SEWELLS PT RD" message was installed sometime between March 2019 and September 2022. Maybe it was during the pandemic. In 2019 the sign read "WE NOW TAKE IN GAS POWERED EQUIPMENT."
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In Norfolk, Virginia, on October 12th, 2023, a commercial building at 500 35th St at the northwest corner of 35th Street and Colonial Avenue (built in 1959-1960 according to the official documentation of the Park Place Historic District, within which the building is rejected as a "noncontributing property").
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Norfolk (7022201)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• abandoned buildings (300008055)
• architectural canopies (300375688)
• bollards (300001993)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brownish orange (300126858)
• closed (300404666)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• driveways (300008280)
• letter boards (300395518)
• masonry veneer (300444225)
• parking lots (300007826)
• pawnshops (300005362)
• red (color) (300311118)
• roll-up doors (300002853)
• shop signs (300211862)
• show-windows (300002970)
• storefronts (300002533)
Wikidata items:
• 12 October 2023 (Q69306950)
• 500 (Q207742)
• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)
• 1959 in architecture (Q2812227)
• 1960 in architecture (Q2812256)
• 1960s in architecture (Q11185676)
• Hampton Roads (Q1011895)
• noncontributing property (Q76320672)
• October 12 (Q2920)
• October 2023 (Q61313015)
• Park Place (Q7137926)
• South Hampton Roads (Q7567420)
• Tidewater (Q7800894)
• Tsenacommacah (Q7849523)
• vacant building (Q56056305)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Buildings—Virginia (sh90004921)
• Business names (sh85018315)
• Small business (sh85123568)