Your Monday evening update on Salem news
Good evening, Salem.
Investors are moving forward on a big downtown Salem project and putting the brakes on another.
Construction recently kicked off on the Citizen Apartments, which will sit on the former Salem City Hall site that’s been a vacant lot for years.
But hopes of a revitalized JC Penney building will have to wait. A local investor group led by Nat Borchers, owner of the 45th Parallel Building, decided not to buy the building after announcing the deal over the summer.
The decision doesn’t reflect a lack of faith in Salem or downtown, Borchers told Salem Reporter. The building’s guts simply needed more work than investors could justify spending.
We’ve got more about both projects in our stories below.
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