Buena Vista After

In 2006, The Rockbridge Advocate wrote:

"For about two decades, the old Reeves Brothers factory on Sycamore Avenue seemed like the perfect setting for a low-budget horror movie.  But rather than blowing it up in a final scene, the building has been recycled, in more ways than one.

• Parts of it, including 431,724 pounds of steel, were ripped out and sent off to be melted down and reused.
• Parts of it, tons of cinder block walls that cut the huge building into small rooms, have been smushed and used to even out the factory site.
• Some old roll-up garage doors have been turned into the sides of counters.
• Some of the old, burst indoor sprinkler pipes have been turned into raililngs.
• An old loading dock conveyer has been turned into a drain table for junked engines and transmissions.
• And the building itself -- 145,000 square-feet worth -- is being turned into a giant recycling center, one cavernous room at a time."

The interior rooms are being cleaned and made ready one large room at a time, utilizing natural light from skylights installed in the ceilings and recycled materials.

Exterior work also progresses, with the old boiler room removed, to be replaced by a loading dock for large trucks.  The exterior facade will be replaced on the remaining portions of the building, with a combination of brick and steel, complementing the portions already restored.