It could be the most head-turning building in all of Alabama, and it could be yours – sphinxes and all – for an asking price of $7 million.
The familiar sphinxes in front of the Scottish Rite Temple at Claiborne and St. Francis streets have enjoyed many paint schemes over the years. Here they're shown in a fresh coat of yellow. The building is heavily famed in steel and concrete, with a six-foot-thick ceiling, Olson said. He said tax records reckon the interior space at about 58,000 square feet, though he said he’s not sure that’s perfectly accurate “because there are hidden passages in there.
For Gonzalez, the Temple story begins with the Three Georges candy store, a business that was founded in 1917 and stayed in family ownership until 1992, when Gonzalez bought it and the historic Dauphin Street building that houses it from Euple Pappas. Of course, the property came with some challenges. “She always said, with me she found her a sucker,” he said. “Candy humor, right?”
Gonzalez said his approach has been to “keep the roof from leaking and keep the air conditioning going” so that the Temple didn’t deteriorate. He reckons that a full-on renovation might cost $15 million to $25 million – but that the time has come when those numbers might make sense for an investor, given the progress that downtown Mobile has made.
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