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Paraisten Kalkki Oy cement station, Jyväskylä
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One of our older finds was located at the corner of an industrial area in Jyväskylä. It was a cement station originally built by Paraisten Kalkki in 1950's. A copy of this building can (could?) be found from Lahti. It took quite some time to actually check it, because... read on. Somewhere around 1980's the building's original use ended, and vandalism took over. But not for good.

A local person bought the building in the end of 1990's and started a strange project: renovating certain floors of the estate into apartments and hobby rooms. The project was also succesful. So, he moved into a formerly abandoned cement tower. He also arranged the rock festival Betonirock, which took place at the estate's yard during a couple of summers in the beginning of 21st century.

In 2003, the station was bought by adjacent concrete producer. They converted the tower into a part of a bigger production plant around 2005. So, in a way the building still exists. The tombstone goes for its original form.

REFERENCES:

  1. E-mailed information from Samuli Penttinen

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