A downtown Phoenix industrial laundry building that operated for more than a century now has its owners feeling put through the wringer.The building, first called Phoenix Laundry and Dry Cleaning and now called Milum Textile Services, located on Seventh Avenue and Van Buren Street, has been in Craig Milum’s family since the 1950s.The laundry operations ended about five years ago, leaving the building vacant. The Milum family planned to sell the building and use the money for their retirement.After closing the building, Craig and his wife Marilyn Milum hired real estate brokers to put the building on the market, looking to sell the site for $9.2 million.“This was our retirement,” Marilyn Milum said. “We want to sell it and move on with our lives.”Roof deemed significantThe building was occupied since 1909, according to Phoenix documents. In 1935, buildings were rebuilt using some original material following a fire.However, the site is one of only two in the city that show intact examples of an architectural style of ceiling and roof, called a lamella roof. The roof is held up using tension from boards placed in a diamond pattern, with no supporting beams used to suspend the roof.The Milum laundry site has t …
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