Real Estate
Nimrod Building Sold: How Should it be Developed?
Let's give the new owner some community input: How would you like to see the 11,000-square-foot, 1.2-acre Nimrod building redeveloped? What businesses or other tenants would be the best fit for the space and location? Tell us in the comments.
After nonprofit efforts to raise $700,000 to save it failed, the Nimrod building on Dillingham Avenue was sold this week for $675,000 to North Falmouth developer Warren Dalton.
The foreclosed structure that formerly housed the now-defunct Nimrod restaurant is famous for the cannonball which lodged in its wall during the British warship Nimrod's attack on Falmouth January 28, 1814. The building later was moved to Dillingham Avenue.
Local preservationists feared Dalton would demolish the structure completely. But according to a press release from the Kinlin Grover Commercial Real Estate Group, which brokered the transaction:
"The buyer is planning to redevelop the site while incorporating portions of the existing structure into a new mixed-use development."
The Cape Cod Times reports that preservationists with the Save the Nimrod organization, which had tried unsuccessfully to raise enough money to beat Dalton's offer, are hopeful that he will preserve the historic cannonball wall. (Read "New Nimrod owner open to preservation.")
Let's give the new owner some community input: How would you like to see the 11,000-square-foot, 1.2-acre Nimrod building redeveloped? What businesses or other tenants would be the best fit for the space and location? If the cannonball wall is preserved, how should it be done? Tell us in the comments.
