Albany, GA - Southgate Plaza
Posted: 23 Feb 2011 17:04
Anybody have some info on what grocer may have been located at 303 S. Slappey Blvd in Albany, GA? EdricFloyd, you seem to know a ton about the area, maybe you can shed some light?
I was measuring a vacant space for a client and the interior screamed it was an old grocery store. Terrazzo floor in much of the space, slab depresses and huge floor drains for coolers / butcher areas around the back and sides and one of the electrical panels had a circuit labeled "meat saw" The original space would've been around 16,800SF, but the space has been divided up some. There's a Save-a-Lot next door now, in what could've easily been a pharmacy or 5&10 space originally. There look to be remnants of an incinerator and bottle room off the back of the structure and one of the exterior doors had a couple of door labels that looks to have once said 'Market Office' & 'Market Receiving'
It's been a retail store for awhile it seems. The exterior canopy had some great concrete panels with a little bell curve at the bottom and shallow ribs about every 4'-0" on center. I don't know if its some store's prototype carried out on the whole shopping center or just some swinging architect's design of the time. I'm just curious. Here's a pic from the property manager - its the space in the picture just past the save-a-lot. They had the tallest parapet so I figure they were the main anchor when the center opened.
I was measuring a vacant space for a client and the interior screamed it was an old grocery store. Terrazzo floor in much of the space, slab depresses and huge floor drains for coolers / butcher areas around the back and sides and one of the electrical panels had a circuit labeled "meat saw" The original space would've been around 16,800SF, but the space has been divided up some. There's a Save-a-Lot next door now, in what could've easily been a pharmacy or 5&10 space originally. There look to be remnants of an incinerator and bottle room off the back of the structure and one of the exterior doors had a couple of door labels that looks to have once said 'Market Office' & 'Market Receiving'
It's been a retail store for awhile it seems. The exterior canopy had some great concrete panels with a little bell curve at the bottom and shallow ribs about every 4'-0" on center. I don't know if its some store's prototype carried out on the whole shopping center or just some swinging architect's design of the time. I'm just curious. Here's a pic from the property manager - its the space in the picture just past the save-a-lot. They had the tallest parapet so I figure they were the main anchor when the center opened.