At first, the stand of indoor mailboxes is the only sign that the Honeyman Hardware Company Building—a handsome brick edifice just off the North Park Blocks—is filled with apartments. Although I’ve been given good directions, I have to circumnavigate the entire block just to find the entrance. From the outside, the Honeyman Hardware Lofts building looks impenetrable, which it’s not, and historic, which it is: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the oldest portion of the complex just celebrated its 113th birthday.
Once inside, I’m still lost: I see only a sleekly outfitted leasing office and the entrance to a covert parking garage, nods to the 21st century. But then, Terrelle Brown, the 25-year-old sports marketing lead for baby brand Nuna, appears. He leads me conf