CityView Magazine

18 | Januar y 2020 L I V I N G For this family, the view from downtown has never been better P atrick Callahan was among the original occupants who made their home in the 300 Hay Street Condominiums. e elegant downtown brick structure, at the corner of Hay and Ray Avenue, opened in 2008. When he was married four years later, his wife Carrie and her son, Evan, joined him. e three live in a two-level, nearly 4,000-square- foot penthouse unit that the couple owns on the fourth floor. eir home offers a bird's-eye view of the district's refurbished landscape. "I always look out the windows," Carrie Callahan said. About a third of the year, Patrick Callahan's two young daughters by a previous marriage, twins Finley and Riley, join them. e overall 46,000-square foot building was hailed in its early years as a significant addition to the downtown renaissance that continues to help the area turn the corner from nearly forsaken to reawakened. "e crown jewels of 300 Hay Street are its luxurious penthouses, stories above the city," reads a passage on the City of Fayetteville website. e 300 Hay Street structure boasts a handsome Colonial Williamsburg-style exterior, 20 residential units, a fitness gym and five commercial spaces on the ground floor. e original investors in the complex are familiar names to those who have followed downtown's gradual transformation: local businessmen Ralph Huff, Tommy Bradford and Dr. Menno Pennink. ese PenMark Place Townhomes, as they are billed on the city website, blend Old World crasmanship with 21st- BY SAL PARADISE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW WONDERLY

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