Re-imagining Magnolia with ChatGPT: Gray's Cleaners block – Magnolia Reporter
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Updated: December 19, 2025 @ 1:25 am
Re-imagining Gray’s Cleaners as a Unitarian Universalist Church.
Gray’s Cleaners, re-imagined as a consulate for the Government of Mexico.
The former Gray’s Cleaners on West Union Street.
Two buildings on West Union Street, re-imagined as a candy store and a woman’s salon.
Vacant buildings next to Gray’s Cleaners on West Union.
Re-imagining Gray’s Cleaners as a Unitarian Universalist Church.
Gray’s Cleaners, re-imagined as a consulate for the Government of Mexico.
The former Gray’s Cleaners on West Union Street.
Two buildings on West Union Street, re-imagined as a candy store and a woman’s salon.
Vacant buildings next to Gray’s Cleaners on West Union.
If you could remake the appearance of Magnolia, what would it look like?
magnoliareporter.com has given over part of that task to the artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT.
We’ve given ChatGPT several photographs of buildings and other locations in Magnolia, and asked it to re-imagine them as something else. magnoliareporter.com is offering the results in this new Friday series.
Today, magnoliareporter.com and ChatGPT re-imagines three buildings on West Union Street, including the former Gray’s Cleaners. We envision the buildings as a Mexican consulate, a Unitarian Universalist church, a candy store and a woman’s salon.
Last week, we re-imagined the former Spudnut Shop. CLICK HERE to see it.
It should be noted that there are no plans to remake any of these locations into the new uses that we’ve suggested to ChatGPT. Ultimately, what happens with these buildings or land parcels is up to the people who own them, or who buy them for the fulfillment of their own visions.
We do hope to get discussions going as to what is possible in Magnolia and Columbia County if people act. Most of the suggestions will be serious ones. A few more will be purposefully ridiculous or even controversial. In some cases, we’ll offer ChatGPT’s vision of worst-case or worst-use scenarios if buildings and locations are left alone.
If you have visions for other properties in the area, let us know. Email your ideas to magnoliareporter.com.
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