Grand Avenue Wreck Getting a Makeover
The old woodframe house on Grand Avenue that has fallen into extreme disrepair over the last decade is finally getting a makeover. For years, the son of the owner has lived there (along with assorted unsavory neighborhood characters) without heat or hot water. The older woman who has owned the house in absentia for years…
The old woodframe house on Grand Avenue that has fallen into extreme disrepair over the last decade is finally getting a makeover. For years, the son of the owner has lived there (along with assorted unsavory neighborhood characters) without heat or hot water. The older woman who has owned the house in absentia for years recently died, leaving the house to her granddaughter. A few days ago, this dumpster showed up. This morning there was a cleaning crew working on the place. We were able to take a quick look around. It was hard to believe that people had been living in this place: Paint and wallpaper peeling off the walls, puddles everywhere, windows boarded up. It will be interesting to see if this changes the dynamic of the drug trade and loitering at this end of the block. Only the warmer weather will tell.
Just because the house looks that way doesn’t make it a “drug” environment. Maybe the owner was sick. I bet no one thought of that. Oh yes, and it does cost money to rehab. Doesn’t it? Those of you with negative opinions should have taken up an offering so that this process could have been expedited. Anyhow. let’s see how gorgeous this project is upon completion.
Waaaait just one second…
Someone has pie?
Since were on the subject of this general area, I noticed two new modern condo buildings one block into Bed Sty on Franklin Avenue, one on the NE corner of Quincy and Franklin, and the other on the SW corner of Lexington and Franklin.
At the quick glance I had whilst conducting my autocar, they both looked like the might be quite nice, as far as condo buildings go.
Have either of those been covered here yet?
You remind me of all the conservative claptrap about the war on drugs.
If you don’t want people to deal drugs, send ’em to college. Otherwise, shut your pie hole.
please tell me you’re joking. or at least fess up to being in the trade…you remind me of the lame kids in college who had che posters on their rooms and when pressed, didn’t really know much about marxism et al.
fact: drug trade brings crime beyond the trade. that means kids being killed by stray bullets. spare me.
Those drug dealers are people just like you and me, and they’re trying to make a living just like anybody else. Yes, yes…I know, what they’re doing is illegal; but that doesn’t make it wrong anymore than the legality of our government’s production of chemical weapons makes that right. Think before you post. Stop your hatin’.
anon 6:06 don’t you read this blog all of time? i mean everyone else does. the blue house belongs to adrian grenier from entourage. he has renovated it using all green materials. it’s a masterpiece indeed helps to make grand avenue, a truly grand avenue despite the drug dealers on the corner.
As the co-enabler of another wood-frame wreck, I feel the urge overtake me…puddles, rotting eaves, sagging porch, horrible history of abusive owners? Come to Momma!!! Especially when the “after” picture is right next door. Why this would still make my heart race when we still haven’t gotten past 2nd base with ours after 20 years, is a question that could only perhaps be answered by a brain biopsy…
wow- what used to be the pink house (now light blue) next door certainly got rehabbed. we also looked at that house several years ago and walked away due to the amount of work it needed. anybody know anything about that house and what’s going on with it?