Bob Chapman’s plans to restore a second, historic service station is so “Durham.” This time its the cool, old Gulf Station that sits diagonally across the corner of Geer and Foster
(click photo for background on the building on the blog “Endangered Durham.”
This cross roads at the north edge of Downtown’s Central Park District is also home to:
- Stone Bros. & Byrd, a cool retro, country store and garden center
- Historic Durham Athletic Park where the movie “Bull Durham” was filmed,
- King’s Sandwich Stand (under renovation) still Hollywood producer Thom Mount’s favorite,
- Durham County Cooperative Extension Office
- … a charter school, some cool condos, a park and a historic grade school now used by TROSA.
The area has what experts call optimal serendipity…and a term that sums up much of Durham’s unique sense of place…more on that later.
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