15 Responses to “also facing demolition”

1. posted by Kristin at May 12, 2008 12:14 am [#]:
   

   What’s the deal with 1604 N. 28th? From these photos, it doesn’t look to be in bad shape.

2. posted by john_m at May 12, 2008 7:09 pm [#]:
   

   And in real life it looked ok, too — maybe even lived in. None of them look terrible.

   There are much worse right around me that I love and keep expecting to see gone one day: 1104 North 20th Street and 1200 North 20th Street

3. posted by Eric S. Huffstutler at May 14, 2008 11:09 am [#]:
   

   1211 N 26th also looks like a nice house that can be fixed up pretty easily.

   Eric

4. posted by stephen at May 15, 2008 8:21 am [#]:
   

   If the city can just go in and knock down a house, why can’t they just repossess it and sell it for cheap on the condition that it gets fixed up within a specified time period?

   Also, could somebody sue the city for trespassing if they knocked down your house?

5. posted by neighhbor at May 15, 2008 9:34 am [#]:
   

   The city is knocking down your house because it is a public safety threat. Gives them the right to take it down.

   But redevelopment isn’t a good enough reason for a taking according to your legislature.

6. posted by Wowzer at May 15, 2008 10:55 am [#]:
   

   I would suspect they couldn’t repossess it because it wouldn’t be theirs to repossess.

   I also suspect it isn’t trespassing if it is for public safety. Are firefighters trespassing when they come in your house to put a fire out?

   I am just guessing on both of these.

7. posted by stephen at May 15, 2008 12:40 pm [#]:
   

   Next question: Are there guidlines for determining if something is a safety threat?

8. posted by jc at May 15, 2008 1:44 pm [#]:
   

   The owner of 3302 E Marshall has applied for a demolition permit (status pending).

9. posted by Cadeho at May 20, 2008 5:57 pm [#]:
   

   I’ll have to get some pics of some of these. I have pics of others… but it says “maybe.” I remember a list liek this in a 1998 Free Press which had me taking pics of buildings on 24th and 23rd St in Fairmount which are still standing.

10. posted by Eric S. Huffstutler at May 21, 2008 8:47 am [#]:
    

    Cadeho… you mentioned a year or so ago about taking photos of every house in Church Hill? Is this for a web site? Book? Or personal use? I was curious about what you took of our house on 27th.

    Eric

11. posted by Church Hill People’s News » code enforcement a contentious issue - Richmond, Virginia at August 6, 2008 4:53 pm [#]:
    

    [...] the street, Ms.Bullock’s house is not the eyesore that would warrant demolition (as came up in discussion when the list of houses was first published back in [...]

12. posted by john_m at August 7, 2008 8:45 am [#]:
    

    1115 N 27th Street was demolished sometime over the past few days.

13. posted by Church Hill People’s News » gone: 3302 East Marshall Street - Richmond, Virginia at February 16, 2009 9:52 am [#]:
    

    [...] also facing demolition (May 9, 2008 Posted by john_m at 9:51AM under RVANews-news, redevelopment | Tags: before/after, CAR, Marshall Street [...]

14. posted by Eric S. Huffstutler at February 17, 2009 12:15 pm [#]:
    

    Any of the others mentioned above have been torn down? Looks like they have given a lot of notice for these demolitions. Took almost a year for the building on Marshall Street. Is the house at 1211 N 26th still standing?

15. posted by Lee Alford at June 10, 2009 1:02 pm [#]:
    

    It appears that 1201 N 26th has finally seen the wrecking ball. Sorry I wasn’t able to get a photo.

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