Click the photo for a larger Panorama. (The roof is not tilted, that is my iPhone 6+ panorama stitching the photo.)
So the renovation seems a little weird but now I think I got it. Ream out the inside and put in nice new windows and redo the stucco on the stone end of the Cape Ann Tool Company. I would have thought those would be done last but I think they are aiming to get businesses in there quickly.
I could see a coffee shop, a little market selling fish, bread, and coffee, maybe even some light tackle so a kid could go catch a flounder over on the right. If I was dreaming I couple picture Plum Cove Grind moving into the front and a restaurant moving into the back overlooking Pigeon Cove.
No law against dreaming. An Indian Seafood Restaurant! Anmol II. Be still my heart. If you did that Anmol I promise to bring my family dining at least once a week.
Good Morning Gloucester 
That top floor would make a nice office for someone!
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Or a beautiful art studio but I want to be munching on a Shrimp Chaat appetizer then some Haddock Vindaloo (don’t tone down the heat thank you) up on that second floor.
Crispy Poori, onion kulcha, my daughter will waitress, I’ll mop the floors every night.
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Progress but the old skeleton lives and in wind, big metal pieces of the roof clang all night long…and could hurt someone if the dislodged and came flying. Tear down that building!
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I noticed when you come down the hill on Green Street the rest of the building is much more see through than even a week ago. They are taking those clanging sheets of metal down. It will be so cool to get rid of the orange spongy crap walls.
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Walked by the other day when the guys were working on the stucco. They told me a restaurant was going in on the first level, but they didn’t elaborate.
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Restaurant! Woot!
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Anmol II? I believe that any Indian restaurant opening on Cape Ann must by law be called The Tan Dory.
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The Tan Dory, how could I have forgotten?
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Paul, I am with you on the Indian restaurant solution but your first idea of the Blackburn Building is a better location, I think.
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The Tan Dory in honor of Howard in the Blackburn Building and a Mexican Seafood, The Fish Taco at Cape Ann Tool.
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What about a tiny marina, so boaters & lobstermen could gas up on the north side of the island?
Maybe a clock tower with the sound of a drop forge marking every hour.
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Makes way too much sense.
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Don’t they sell diesel in Pigeon Cove? At least there is a sign.
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Fabulous!
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Thanks Paul – lot’s of changed goin on that way for sure! Thought I saw duckie up there on the high ground! 🙂 Dave & Kim:-)
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Made way too much sense so why not leave it to rot for five more years?
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Here I am exactly 5 years to the day from my first comment. No news. Stuff falls down ,Metal flies around and sooner or later someone on a nice walk with their dog will get killed.
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