Mother’s Milk Bank Opens New Magnolia Facility
December 22, 2011 at 5:00 am | Urban Development | Tags: Architecture, Magnolia Village, Medical, Mother's Milk Bank, Near Southside, urban design
A unique new storefront has opened up on Magnolia Avenue just east of Hemphill in the Near Southside – the new home of Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas.
Mother’s Milk Bank is a human milk bank, which takes donations from healthy breastfeeding mothers and stores it for use with critically ill and premature infants. This important facility has a new home on Magnolia, and it’s a wonderful example of street-oriented, pedestrian-scaled remodeling. The building was last home to The Fairmount, a live music venue which closed some time ago. The building was a windowless brick box with a cold, unengaging street presence. Fortunately, the building’s newest owners completely redesigned it, punching in street-facing windows and a pedestrian entrance and giving it a brand-new storefront appearance. Now, it fits in beautifully with the pedestrian-oriented goals of Magnolia.