http://columbushomesblog.com/2007/05/24/892-east-long-demolition/ Columbus Real Estate News That Matters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:58:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://columbushomesblog.com/2007/05/24/892-east-long-demolition/comment-page-1/#comment-10523 Columbusite Sat, 24 May 2008 18:48:49 +0000 http://www.columbushomesblog.com/2007/05/24/892-east-long-demolition/#comment-10523 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? 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?

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