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Real Estate

Apr. 15, 2003

Turning Junkyards, Warehouses Into Art

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer An old almond warehouse and auto-parts junkyard in North Sacramento is now a piece of art. McCuen Properties, which owns the site at 925 Del Paso Blvd., redeveloped the former Blue Diamond warehouse into a one-story office building with metal sculptures and ceramic mosaics on exterior walls. The company also installed painted metal sculptures of whimsical animals inside the building.

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG

CREJ Staff Writer

An old almond warehouse and auto-parts junkyard in North Sacramento is now a piece of art.

McCuen Properties, which owns the site at 925 Del Paso Blvd., redeveloped the former Blue Diamond warehouse into a one-story office building with metal sculptures and ceramic mosaics on exterior walls. The company also installed painted metal sculptures of whimsical animals inside the building.

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