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Story last updated at 10:07 a.m. Thursday, November 11, 2004
Artistic inspiration or urban
eyesore, cellular tower in disguise
is going up
BY ADAM FERRELL
Of The Post and Courier Staff
A cell phone tower next to a National Historic Landmark District
sounds as tragic as a smiley face sticker on a Picasso painting.
But this is no ordinary cell tower being built on Line Street in
downtown Charleston. It's a precedent-setting one that looks
nothing like a cellular tower at all. It really doesn't look like
anything. But some might call it a work of art.
It's the kind of job Neil Stevenson Architects Inc. likes, said
Andrew Burnett, who designed the structure. The architect said
he did his best to make what's usually an eyesore, pleasing to the
eye.
It's a threepronged red
brick veneer
building with a
95-foot-high
gray pole
emerging from
its center. All
the gadgetry
normally seen
hanging high in
the air off cell
NEIL STEVENSON ARCHITECTS
towers will be
contained
This perspective looking west on Line Street shows
what the planned cellular tower near the Crosstown
within the pole
Expressway will look like.
and the
building. No
chain-link fence or exposed wires. Just a sculpture of sorts that's
supposed to make driving while talking on cell phones in the area
a breeze.
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The plans Charleston's Board of Architectural Review quickly
gave the nod to Wednesday ended three years of frustrating work
by three local cellular companies and city planners. The approval
undid an anachronistic dilemma.
Cell phone reception is poor where Interstate 26 meets U.S.
Highway 17 because of too much cellular traffic. An exhaustive
search for a tower site revealed only the empty lot on Line. That
turned out to be a bad place since it's next to the brick AAA
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Downtown Storage building, a former carpenter shop along the
railroad tracks that hinge the historic district of the William Aiken
House and the Charleston Visitor Center.
A zoning special exception was denied, then approved on appeal.
State preservationists OK'd the plans. Local ones cringed.
But now that's history.
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