Several of you have asked me over the past week or two, “What’s going on at 15th & Champa?” For those of you who haven’t been at that corner lately, here’s what I’m talking about (many thanks to Scott E. for the photos!):

The building in question on Block 130 is the warehouse for the old Woolworth’s that closed in the 1990s and was later converted into a data center. What I’ve been hearing is that the building is being remodeled to accommodate offices for the Social Security Administration. Now, don’t get me wrong; punching windows into this building and adding some human activity into it is better than a windowless data center. But I’d rather see the SSA lease some office space in one of the new office buildings under construction Downtown and, instead, have this dispensable building replaced with, say, a grocery store with a residential tower above, or a hotel or something.