Scientific Properties

Date Founded
2001
Business / Organization Type
Real Estate Developer
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Founded in 2001 by Andy Rothschild, a former physician, Scientific Properties is, as of 2013, a real estate development company that has focused on urban adapative reuse projects in Durham, NC. The company provides development, construction management, leasing, property management, asset management, and marketing services for properties.

The company subspecializes in the use of tax credits, as well as specific expertise in the development of both biotechnology and arts-related spaces. In 2008, Andy Rothschild retired from day-to-day operations of the company and returned to New York. Since 2010, the company has been headed by Gary Kueber, another former physician, as CEO, who is also the author and founder of Endangered Durham / Open Durham.

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Chief Executive Officer

Kueber, Sevy

Dr. Sevy Kueber was born in New Orleans, LA. She grew up in the city and came to Durham in 1988 to attend Duke University, where she majored in Zoology and English. She returned to New Orleans for 4 years to complete medical school at LSU, whereupon she returned to Durham, NC to pursue residency in Internal Medicine at UNC Hospitals. She began...
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Golden Belt - Building Three

11.13.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber)
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Building Six (hosiery Mill) - Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. / Hillcrest Hosiery Mills

Building 6, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The history of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco (later American Tobacco) and the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. are inextricably mingled. In 1887, the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. originated in a portion of the Bull Durham Tobacco Factory (the white building at the northern extent of the American Tobacco complex)...
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Building Five (dye House) - Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. / Hillcrest Hosiery Mills

A dye house built for the Golden Belt Manufacturing company in 1927, Building Five became part of Hillcrest Hosiery Mills in the 1940s before reverting to GBMC. It was restored and renovated by Scientific Properties as office space in 2008-2009.
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Building Four (hosiery Mill) - Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.

Under construction, 1901. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The history of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco (later American Tobacco) and the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. are inextricably mingled. In 1887, the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. originated in a portion of the Bull Durham Tobacco Factory (the white building at the northern extent of the American Tobacco...
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Building Two (bag Factory) - Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.

Building Two at Golden Belt was the original bag factory - where the sheeting from the Cotton Mill (Building One) was cut and sewn into bags for Bull Durham tobacco. As of 2012, it is a repurposed mixed-use building housing retail, office, and event space.
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The Venable Tobacco Company

Venable Warehouse, looking east on East Pettigrew Street, likely 1920s-1930. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Wyatt Dixon Collection) Much of the historical information in this post derives from the National Register nominations for the Venable buildings
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Clark And Sorrell Garage / Triangle Biotechnology Center

(Courtesy Scientific Properties) The Clark & Sorrell garage had its origins in an auto repair shop at 214 E. Parrish St. opened by LeRoy Clark in the late 1910s. Donnie Sorrell had left Durham to attend business school in New York ~1920, and returned to Durham intending to establish a business. Clark was interested in expanding his repair shop, and the two partnered as Clark and Sorrell, Inc. on January 1, 1922.
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401 Foster St.

401 Foster St. was constructed around 1930 as a post-and-beam warehouse, very similar in construction to the Garrard Warehouses nearby. This warehouse, and the warehouse immediately to its west (up a very steep grade to Roney St.) were operated by the WP Henry Company, and noted as "Lessee, Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company"
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Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.

A textile factory intimately linked with tobacco production, the Golden Belt Manufacturing Company started in the Old Bull Building at American Tobacco before Julian Carr constructed the large plant on East Main Street to cut and sew bags for loose leaf tobacco. The company later branched into hosiery production and paper products - cartons and packaging for Lucky Strike cigarettes were made here. After outlasting all of of its early textile contemporaries, Golden Belt closed in 1994. In 2008, the property was redeveloped as s a mixture of residences, artists studios, office space, and retail.
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