New apartments, creative agencies could be sign of downtown Salem’s future

Bryon Neal Daniels, co-owner of The Gray Lab, works at his office in downtown Salem. Daniels is among a number of downtown business owners who say the area is booming with more residents and service-oriented businesses. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter)

A coworking space isn’t what Scott McLeod expected.

It took decades for him and his co-owners of The Gray Building, a 120-year-old building on the corner of State and Liberty streets, to make the needed repairs…