{"id":4554,"date":"2011-10-28T23:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T04:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2018-01-27T00:41:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T05:41:58","slug":"garage-leesburg-road-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"Garage \/ (La)Berne Equipment(?), 819 Leesburg Road: 1980s(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I figured I could at least get a street address by tracking down the Colliers Keenan<\/i> listing for this Leesburg Road property just east of I-77, across from Greenlawn Cemetary and alongside Pringle Road, but for some reason, I can't find it on the Colliers site.<\/p>\n

That being the case, I know essentially nothing about this building other than it is in poor shape and looks to have been a car repair garage. The trussed arched wood roof is very nice although open to the sky in most places now, and there are a couple of mysteries posed by the coat hangers and the jaunty mascot.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 1 November 2011<\/b>: Added the full street address to post title.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 21 January 2014<\/b>: Commenter badger suggests the correct street address is 819 Leesburg Road. I don't have any better guess, so I have changed the post title to use 819 instead of 821. He also suggests the business was either Berne<\/i> or Laberne<\/i> Equipment, so I am adding those as well.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 28 August 2017<\/b> -- This building has now been razed as shown in these not very good drive-by shots:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 25 October 2017<\/b> -- Construction is starting here. Unfortunately, I did not get a good enough picture to read the sign saying what is forthcoming:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 27 January 2018<\/b> -- The new structure is framed now, and, as you can see if you click through and look very closely at the sign, is to be a Dick Smith Body Shop:<\/p>\n

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I figured I could at least get a street address by tracking down the Colliers Keenan listing for this Leesburg Road property just east of I-77, across from Greenlawn Cemetary and alongside Pringle Road, but for some reason, I can't find it on the Colliers site. That being the case, I know essentially nothing about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1311,13,912,162,345,725],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-819-leesburg-road","tag-business","tag-garage","tag-i-77","tag-leesburg-road","tag-pringle-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}