Final MND Documents & Restoration Plan

Bayer Corporation - 2000-2003


Coordinating the efforts of a team of three separate architectural historians, archaeologists, civil engineers, and Bayer Corporation facilities management staff, we initially produced a focused resource significance analysis. The analysis was highlighted as part of a comprehensive mitigated negative declaration which was reviewed and ultimately approved by the City of Berkeley, prior to taking action on the 14.4-acre, 537,900 square foot Bayer South Properties Project in West Berkeley (partially visible in photo below). In order to accommodate the proposed packaging warehouse and sterile fill buildings, and associated parking and loading facilities, Bayer followed the environmental team’s recommendations to design, engineer and implement restoration of the badly deteriorated Philadelphia Quartz Furnace Room #1 Building complex, situated directly adjoining Grayson Street.