Adaptive reuse: Gas stations remade into trendy restaurants – CNN.com

Chef Ben Poremba renovated a Standard Oil gas station built in the 1930s into a wine bar and restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri. Olio opened in November 2012.

“Gas stations are almost always on corner sites, they have good visibility and great accessibility, so they make great locations for restaurants,” said Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor of architecture and urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of “Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs.”

The building appealed to Red Truck Bakery owner Brian Noyes because it was centrally located in the heart of Warrenton. Even in the 1920s, the gas station was a place for locals to meet and socialize, he said.

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