Renovation starts on downtown’s Electric Building

Built as The Electric Building, the office building 700 Prospect will return to its original
name but as apartments with a ground-floor sports bar one block from the Gateway
sports and entertainment complex. That conversion led by K&D Group will start
in early November (Ian Meadows). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With financing closed, construction work will begin in the next couple of weeks on the $40 million rehabilitation and conversion of the historic 700 Prospect Ave. office building into apartments, called The Electric Building. And now the ground-floor has the end user of its lone commercial space identified — Tom’s Watch Bar, a national chain sports bar founded in 2014.

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