Long before Christie Avenue became a bustling corridor of food halls, shopping districts, and transit hubs, it was ground zero for Emeryville's mid-century manufacturing empire. Originally erected in 1948 as part of the massive Pabco Paint and Paraffine Companies industrial footprint, this sturdy masonry warehouse hummed for decades with the raw machinery of chemical mixing and paint production.
When the city launched its ambitious post-industrial transformation in the 1990s, the utilitarian facility was rescued from the wrecking ball. Reimagined into a boutique collection of just 22 authentic live/work lofts, Christie Avenue Commons preserved the warehouse's rugged soul, from its high timber-and-steel volumes and soaring ceilings to its expansive skylights, while opening its doors to Bay Area artists, entrepreneurs, and makers.
Today it stands as an intimate, quiet survivor of Emeryville's working-class heritage, hidden in plain sight directly across from the modern energy of the Emeryville Public Market.
Residents only have to step across Christie Avenue to reach the bustling food stalls of the Emeryville Public Market, but few realize both properties share intertwined industrial roots. While the Commons was churning out industrial coatings and architectural finishes for Pabco Paint, the Public Market building across the street was operating around the clock as a massive fruit and vegetable canning facility for the C.H. Powell Company.
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