320 East College Avenue (Appleton, Wisconsin)
| 320 East College Avenue | |
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_-_Mapillary.jpg) 320 East College Avenue in 2019 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Commercial building |
| Location | 320 East College Avenue Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 44°15′43″N 88°24′07″W / 44.26205°N 88.40191°WCoordinates: 44°15′43″N 88°24′07″W / 44.26205°N 88.40191°W |
| Construction started | 1960 |
| Opened | June 24, 1961 |
| Owner | Tadych Investment Partners |
| Design and construction | |
| Developer | Appleton Building and Loan Association |
320 East College Avenue is a building located on College Avenue in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin. Built in 1960, the current building was used as a bank branch by a series of institutions until 2011. As of 2020, it is planned to be demolished, to be replaced by a six-story apartment building.
History[edit | edit source]
The current building at 320 E. College was constructed on the former site of three buildings at 316, 318, and 322 East College Avenue. The properties was acquired by the Appleton Building and Loan Association in 1959,[1] which demolished the existing buildings and began construction on its new headquarters at the site in July 1960.[2] ABLA held a "Formal Showing" of the newly completed office on June 24, 1961.[3]
Appleton Building and Loan was renamed Home Savings on August 8, 1972.[4] Home Savings was acquired by Republic Savings in 1988, and Republic Savings was acquired by TCF Bank in 1992.[5][6] North Shore Bank purchased TCF Bank's three Fox Valley locations, including the downtown Appleton branch, converting them into North Shore branches on September 20, 1999.[7]
North Shore Bank closed the branch on April 29, 2011, because the number of transactions being made there was declining.[8] The bank sold the building to KTW Investments on November 1, 2013, which in turn sold it to Lawrence University on December 30 of that year.[9] Lawrence purchased the building mostly for the 56 parking spaces on the property, facing Johnston Street.[10][11] In February 2014, the university allowed local charities to use the building as a donation center benefiting refugees immigrating to Appleton.[12] The donation center operated for six months, after which Lawrence began using the building as storage space. In 2018, the university sought plans for demolishing the building and reusing the property, describing it as being in "tear-down condition" and "a challenge to redevelop."[10]
Tadych Investment Partners purchased the property from Lawrence, and proposed a six-story apartment building with street-level commercial space, to begin construction in early 2020 and open to tenants in early 2021.[13][14]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Loan Firm Buys 3 Avenue Properties", Appleton Post-Crescent, August 5, 1959, front page.
- ↑ "New Building and Loan Headquarters Goes Up", Appleton Post-Crescent, July 14, 1960, page D6.
- ↑ Full-page advertisement, Appleton Post-Crescent, June 23, 1961, page A12.
- ↑ Full-page advertisement, Appleton Post-Crescent, August 6, 1972, supplement, page 61.
- ↑ Boardman, Arlen. "Republic Capital purchased; Home Savings owner acquired", Appleton Post-Crescent, November 18, 1992, page C-6.
- ↑ Boardman, Arlen. "North Shore buys three TCF offices", Appleton Post-Crescent, July 12, 1999, page 11A.
- ↑ "Northshore Bank acquires new facilities in Appleton" [sic], Appleton Post-Crescent, September 21, 1999, page D-2.
- ↑ "BUZZ: Branch closes", Appleton Post-Crescent, July 27, 2011, page A-11.
- ↑ "Lawrence buys former bank building", Appleton Post-Crescent, January 9, 2014, page A3.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Buzz: Coming: Site gets do-over", Appleton Post-Crescent, April 1, 2018, page D1.
- ↑ "Lawrence Purchases Former Bank Building in Downtown Appleton", Lawrence University press release, January 8, 2014.
- ↑ "Collection of donations for refugees begins Saturday", Appleton Post-Crescent, February 18, 2014, page A4.
- ↑ Behnke, Duke. "Housing developers asking for assistance", Appleton Post-Crescent, May 22, 2019, front page and page 14A.
- ↑ Evansen, Paul. "Two New Multi-Million Dollar Developments planned for downtown Appleton", wearegreenbay.com, June 5, 2019.
