District Overview Willco/Square 701 Development Ballpark District News Items
On the eastern half of Square 701, bounded by First, M, N, and Cushing streets, three longtime landowners have pooled their properties with the intentions of building an office, residential, and retail project on this now-coveted land just one block north of the ballpark. Little has been released about the project, and in the meantime, a temporary surface parking lot is reported to be planned for the site. The long-time tenants on the site left by the end of 2007, and in early 2008 most of the site was demolished.
Two views of the northwest corner of 1st and N, directly across from the stadium site's northeast corner, on what is now incredibly valuable land. The top photo is from June 2006; the bottom one shows the same spot on May 10, 2009, demolished. (But look at those pretty new sidewalks and streetlights!) 
The southwest corner of 1st and M, seen in May 2006 (top) and now, with Normandie Liquors now demolished, the ballpark at rear, and 55 M Street now towering at right. The Cohen/Camalier/Welch 500,000-sq-ft office/residential/retail project will eventually fill most of the land seen here, with an office building here at 1st and M. (4/03/09)
(Top) N Street buildings facing the ballpark, in August 2007.
(Bottom) The same location, in January 2008, just after demolition. Now visible are 55 M Street (left), 80 M (center),
and 100 M, all one block to the north.
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The Admiral Limousine building (left), along with the southern end of the Plymouth Printing Company, as seen from First Street south of M, in February 2006. (02/06)
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The same location, demolished, and with Monument's 55 M Street rising at right. (1/20/08)
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The northwest corner of the Willco site is at Cushing and M streets, seen here in May 2006. The Plymouth Printing Company building is at right-center. (Normandie Liquors is just visible at far left.) (05/06)
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The same location, with most of the site now cleared, and with the eastern stadium parking garage at rear and 55 M Street looming across Cushing Street at right. (5/06/08)
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The old and the new in the Ballpark District can easily be seen at the corner of First and N, as new sidewalks, a wider First Street, and historic streetlamps (and 100 M Street under construction in the distance) butt up against the abandoned buildings of the old Near Southeast. (1/6/08)
Four weeks later, with demolition complete. (2/10/08) 
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Normandie Liquors seemed to become a symbol of old versus new in Near Southeast. The shuttered liquor store held out while new buildings like 20 M (left) and 80 M were built.... (10/07)
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.... But ultimately the need for stadium parking won out, and Normandie was demolished in early February 2008. (55 M Street is the additional new building now rising at right.) (2/10/08)
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District Overview Willco/Square 701 Development Ballpark District News Items
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Buildings on the Willco/Square 701 site, demolished in January 2008.
