Winkler Lofts started as a warehouse at 733 SW Washington Street. Owner Larry Winkler explains that it was the site for the Roszell's Dairy starting in 1920, when the building was constructed. He opens the door to a large freight elevator shaft, leading to a compressor room above: evidence of the building's most recent occupant, Winkler Meats. Now the Winkler Lofts is helping to reinvent the Warehouse District which is important not only for its preservation of Peoria's industrial past, but because its adaptive re-use will attract more young professionalscritical to Peoria's cultural and economic future.