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CaptainObvious110 t1_iy249i1 wrote

Reply to comment by Renaiconna in Five houses targeted for demolition in Mount Vernon historic district by Rubysdad1975

Why did they accept those buildings in the first place then?

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Renaiconna t1_iy3797g wrote

It was a donation from a parishioner, along with the second parking lot across from MedChi. There were initially hopes to be able to use the buildings for something, but the money wasn’t there and really hasn’t been there to be able to do anything substantial with them.

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CaptainObvious110 t1_iy5awf4 wrote

The parishioner evidently had deep pockets then. Otherwise how do you explain having five houses? This then raises the question of what condition the houses were when they were acquired by the church?

If they were livable at the time, then why wasn't that pursued at a time when it would have been much easier to keep them afloat rather than they sit for decades and fall apart?

30 years is a really really long time to sit on properties and to be very frank, that shouldn't be allowed in the first place.

I'm assuming that Mt Vernon wasn't a slum 30 years ago so I have a hard time making sense of such valuable real estate just sitting there without any real buyers.

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