The former York Manufacturing Co pl...

The former York Manufacturing Co plant in York, Pa., was a typical inner-city factory, consisting of a hotch-potch of structures packed onto a city blockade beside a rail line.

When manufacturing operations were transferred to a more modem facility in the 1950 the 6.2-acre tangled of buildings that once housed machine stores warehouses and offices became a riddle property. But a $156 million adaptive reuse draw has transformed the old plant into The Industrial Plaza of York, a mixed of buildings that houses office and light industrial tenants.

A potential obstacle to the