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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
National
Muskan Singh

A vacant 1918 dairy factory sat unused for a decade; entrepreneurs Michael Downing and Robert Baum transformed it into a 52-room Chicago boutique hotel

What happens when an old factory is left empty for years? In Chicago, one vacant dairy building found a very different future. Built in 1918, the building was once a Borden Dairy Depot. The two-story factory eventually sat unused for about a decade. Its working life was over, however, the building still had something that was pretty hard to recreate in a new hotel, its original character.

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