Garver Feed Mill was one of the most well known abandonments in Madison, right behind the demolished Royster Clark fertilizer plant. It was originally a sugar beet mill, before being converted to an animal feed factory in the 1930's. It was abandoned in 1997, and sat vacant for twenty years- two long decades that took their toll on the building between vandals, scrappers, and arsonists.
In late 2017 work began to renovate the building into an event center and food court, work which concluded in the summer of 2019. Garver is open for business again, featuring an Ian's Pizza, kombucha brewery, yoga studio, and several other businesses.
Here are some of the photos I took back when it was abandoned.
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Ian's Pizza, one of the more popular pizza places in town, opened up a shop there. The pizza was decent. They even had a bunch of old machinery and equipment from the mill on display along the walls, some of which I recognized from when I explored it.
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I'd recommend checking it out if you're ever in Madison, if only for the sake of its history.