Young Apartments

About

Refurbished to the elegance of its heyday, the Young Apartments are providing affordable housing for working-class tenants--and a splash of class to an industrial Downtown neighborhood. A nonprofit development company has restored the five-story brick and terra cotta building at 1621 Grand Ave., designated as a historic cultural monument by the city. The Classical Revival-style building was built in 1911, designed by Robert Brown Young, an architect responsible for many of the early commercial buildings along South Broadway. By the early 1980s, the building had become so deteriorated that it was targeted by the city’s Slum Housing Task Force, and residents referred to it as “Dracula’s Castle.” After years of court proceedings, the city’s