In just a few short weeks, the CCIC will launch its much talked-about redevelopment plan targeting the building's vacant southern tip. This part of the CCIC--more than 120,000 square feet of vacant and condemned warehouse--is the oldest portion of the building, constructed in the early 1920s by Louis Schwitzer, automobile engineer and racing royalty. For decades, this space was bustling with activity, with hundreds of employees producing cooling fans, super chargers, rubber seals, and more on the factory's expansive floor. Today, the space is dark and quiet. The roof has holes, broken glass litters the floors, the remaining windows have collected so much graffiti that they look like stained glass. Still, there's something in here that echoes the building's storied past--remnants of the people and things that once occupied these spaces. (photos by Rachel Ferguson)