Does anyone know anything about the demolition of these buildings This morning I was aghast to see the ruins of one of Long Street’s last remaining rows of storefronts between Monroe and 17th.
I reviewed this year’s NEAC agendas and saw nothing about this. While they weren’t the prettiest buildings in the world, I believe they could have been saved. Does anyone have any info
I think that the lifeblood of our near East communities depend on the rehabbing of currently vacant storefronts. This is the sort of thing that will make our neighborhoods walkable environments where we can enjoy walking to some staple commercial and retail venues, improving our quality of life, making our neighborhood more attractive and increasing density.
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In other cities, it is simply illegal to tear down historic structures. We need to adopt a similar policy and only allow demolition in the very rare occasion that an older building cannot be salvaged, instead of no one wanting to pay for rehabbing. I had been wondering what had been in those empty lots I’m looking at from Urban Spirit. Any word on who owns those lots? I’m going to be doing a Long St entry and things like this just make it that much harder to bring activity to the area. “Urban Renewal”, and it is insane that it is still happening, has been a proven failure nationwide resulting in empty lots that never saw the development that would supposedly fill them. I bet the combined space of all of those would equal a pretty good-sized city. You would think there would have been fierce opposition to what had contributed so much decline to the neighborhood, but maybe residents have taken a down-and-out position. Did the KLBNA even make a fuss?
Does anyone know anything about the demolition of these buildings This morning I was aghast to see the ruins of one of Long Street’s last remaining rows of storefronts between Monroe and 17th. 
Columbusite
May 24th, 2008
In other cities, it is simply illegal to tear down historic structures. We need to adopt a similar policy and only allow demolition in the very rare occasion that an older building cannot be salvaged, instead of no one wanting to pay for rehabbing. I had been wondering what had been in those empty lots I’m looking at from Urban Spirit. Any word on who owns those lots? I’m going to be doing a Long St entry and things like this just make it that much harder to bring activity to the area. “Urban Renewal”, and it is insane that it is still happening, has been a proven failure nationwide resulting in empty lots that never saw the development that would supposedly fill them. I bet the combined space of all of those would equal a pretty good-sized city. You would think there would have been fierce opposition to what had contributed so much decline to the neighborhood, but maybe residents have taken a down-and-out position. Did the KLBNA even make a fuss?