![]() Martin said she was also pleased the location would be occupied by a local business. “I was thrilled,” said Ann Martin, Heylman’s daughter, who worked with her father out of the office for several decades. The upstairs will feature artwork curated by local artist Helen Parsons, Wandler said, while records will be stored in movable bins that can be reconfigured to allow musical artists to perform below. The upper floor is accessible only by a spiral staircase, and features a balcony that wraps around the central floor, which is itself ringed by floor-to-ceiling glass windows. “I was like, nah, I could just use it for storage as it is,” he said. Wandler pondered taking out the shower, but decided against it. Heylman, an avid runner who died last year at age 98, had a shower installed in one of the back rooms so he could clean up after a lunchtime run before meeting clients. Alan Brown’s sons, said he remembered taking the bus downtown to clean the windows of the showroom at the Parkade and dust furniture.Īnn Martin, Heylman’s daughter, said she and her father moved into the space shortly thereafter. Alan Brown moved to Spokane Valley to a store on East Sprague Avenue, where they operated until a retirement sale in December. Alan Brown Interior Design Studio, which occupied the space at the Parkade from May 1967, shortly after the parking structure’s grand opening, through October 1986. In later years, Heylman and his daughter used the building as an office, but it had previously been the home of the R. ![]() “When I decided to rent this, I was like, ‘It feels like I’m collecting iconic architecture right now,’ ” Wandler said. ![]() Wandler joked that, along with the Hillyard library that now houses his restaurant, his real estate rental portfolio was becoming crowded. The location attracted Wandler because of its presence downtown and ties to Heylman, whose work with the parking structure, the Spokane International Airport terminal and the Spokane Regional Health District defined Spokane’s postwar skyline. “It’ll be vintage, but also some newer, quirky stuff that I can offer that those guys don’t offer,” Wandler said, adding that he hoped his business and those other shops would become part of a “walking tour” of Spokane’s midcentury past. His new space is the former office of one of Spokane’s pre-eminent architects, Warren Heylman, whose legacy Wandler hopes to honor, while also giving local artists room to display their work and play off the distinct styles of other downtown retailers, such as Boo Radley’s, Atticus and Petunia & Loomis. He is the former owner of the downtown bar Garageland, founder of Total Trash Records and Sound in Browne’s Addition and current owner of the Bad Seed restaurant in Hillyard. Yet, in the space of a few weeks, Wandler is preparing for the opening of Entropy, his latest foray into the music/vintage/art world of Spokane. “I had no intention, three months ago, of opening a record store,” Wandler said Thursday while standing on the second -floor balcony of the Parkade space. JJ Wandler knew he had to have the windowed space at the base of the iconic Parkade parking garage’s helixed ramp when he saw a “For Lease” sign there late last year.
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