Bob Grove and Rodney Burlingame, partners of the newly formed Urban Properties LLC, have purchased a 19th century building at 904 Broadway and plan to complete its renovation.
Glen Strothmann of Delta Roads Development bought the red-brick building, formerly the location of Puckett’s for Women clothing store, from John Ott and did extensive renovations, including a raised roofline, apartments with decks facing the alley and a wrought iron balcony on the second story facing Broadway.
After a foreclosure, First Community Bank of Clinton took back the building in a trustee sale and recently sold it to Urban Properties.
Burlingame said in a news release that they will create two retail spaces, one at street level and another in the mezzanine space, and the remaining floors will be converted into six luxury residential rental units with multiple skylights.
Burlingame, a Columbia native, said: “I’m just old enough to remember when the building housed the old Crown Drugstore with its vintage soda fountain. I guess most people remember the address as Puckett’s Lady’s and Dean’s Town & Country.”
Tony Grove, Bob Grove’s son, of Grove Construction, will oversee all exterior and interior work on the building. Financing for the purchase and project was arranged through Providence Bank.
Grove, a former part-owner of Little Dixie Construction, said they formed Urban Properties to acquire, renovate and modernize underused commercial and residential real estate in the Columbia area.
The Sound of Stillness
Kelsey Winkeljohn
