Seven months after the demolition of 801 and 803, the also-vacant house at 819 Mosby Street was pushed over yesterday.
821, 819, and 817 Mosby Street
See also: inside 809 Mosby Street (1/2/2007)
Seven months after the demolition of 801 and 803, the also-vacant house at 819 Mosby Street was pushed over yesterday.
821, 819, and 817 Mosby Street
See also: inside 809 Mosby Street (1/2/2007)
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On my way home for lunch I noticed that 821 is also gone!
Are these demos with demo permits? Just curious. There might not be much of a fine for demo without a permit, but still, it’s not approved and the City will fine for doing it. The only way I know of to know if there’s no permit is to witness a weekend demo, that’s SURELY without a permit! Anyway just wondering, did the City order these or are owners just doing it? It’s sad in any case, the so-called ‘broken tooth’ effect of missing buildings in a row….
I would love to see the whole block demolished and developed with a nice mixed use approach. The piece meal demolitions and demolitions by neglect are really unfortunate, especially considering that this is the northern symbolic gateway (and sets a very negative visual tone for those who drive across the MLK bridge into Church-Union Hill. If there ever was a need for eminent domain to cobble together a set of underutilized and well located parcels, this block is it.
Branch’s Barbershop on the corner is being rehabbed as well as the neat old farm house on the block. That old farmhouse the gem of the block and I am glad it is being remodeled.
I’m glad to have a name for that building. What do you know about it?
I’ve been watching them put it back together every day, I work at MLK. It looks like they are doing good work. I really didn’t think that building would ever be put back together and I’m glad to have been wrong.
809 Mosby was for sale, and then the owner decided to fix it up instead. Maybe this’ll get something going on the empty blocks behind them…