The warehouse offer looked permanent enough to deserve immediate suspicion from every cautious part of me. Five years of rent, renovation promises, plus a purchase option could turn one successful showcase into an expensive room nobody needed.
Fourth Place hired a property attorney, structural engineer, accessibility consultant, environmental inspector, accountant, plus commercial broker before entering negotiation. No household partner joined the paid review merely through romance or proximity toward my private decisions.
The building stood beside the east transit corridor inside an old printing district. Its ground floor held one flexible hall, two workshop rooms, storage, offices, plus a loading bay separated from public entry.
Legal capacity reached seven hundred after exits, toilets, fire suppression, plus accessible routes received renovation. The number fit smaller events and rehearsals without pretending the venue could replace our two-thousand-person showcase site.
