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Starland Design District (Starland Dairy)

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After 1916; 1998 renovation. Bound by Bull, W. 41st, and W. 42nd sts., and De Soto Ave.

Established in 1998, the Starland Design District is a neighborhood revitalization project centered on the former Starland Dairy, but encompassing as many as forty blocks of the surrounding commercial and residential area. The dairy is a white-stuccoed two-story building that processed milk and other products from surrounding farms. As production was centralized and Starland and other dairies were closed, this empty structure projected a forlorn atmosphere in the immediate neighborhood. The Starland Lofts mixed-use infill project (2006, Lominack Kolman Smith Architects, 2424 DeSoto Avenue) won LEED Gold status and gave Savannah its first taste of the clean contemporary look of precast concrete, brushed steel, stained wood, and glass in geometric modular units.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Houses

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Starland Design District (Starland Dairy)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-12.12.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 213-213.

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