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Historic Woolworths building being rehabbed
Planet Fun is on the ground level, a Savannah entrepreneurial success story. There’s also a Subway franchise next door. But the top two stories of the building at 129-131 East Broughton St. have remained vacant since the 50’s-era building’s original tenant, a Woolworths, shut down.
Now the new owner is planning to rehab the building’s two top floors, as approved by the Historic District Board of Review last week.
Located at the southwest intersection of Broughton and Abercorn, the historic building will also get a covered rooftop patio, under the plan submitted by the project’s architect, Savannah-based Greenline Architecture.
While a narrative submitted for the project stated the rehab was for residential use, Keith Howington, with Greenline Architecture, stated during a June 8 review board meeting that the upper stories would serve as a small hotel, according to the meeting minutes. Sales records also show that a portion of the property was purchased by an LLC that shares an address with a Boston-based vacation rental company, Stay Heirloom, which rents out multiple properties in Savannah and throughout the country.
Howington said on Sept. 15 he could not speak about the owner’s plans for the building but would provide them with my contact information. The owners did not respond, as of Sept. 16, when this article was submitted for publication.
