Image from site review application from 2017…
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Really love how this is one building designed to look like 3 buildings. Five, 3-level units in the building, two in either historic section and 1 in the modern “infill” section.
Looks like rooftop patios as well.
[Disclaimer, this was from two years ago, so no idea how accurate it remains…]
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I just really don’t understand how developers are able to just sit on property like this and the city does nothing. I complain about the pit a ton but there’s really no way to force someone to build something but to allow those houses to sit in such a state for so long with no real consequences is crazy to me.
I remember the one on the left being for sale in ~2013 or 14 for $70,000. I was living on Ashe Ave and decided to finish paying off student loans instead of considering it.
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Agreed @mike I like this design a good deal.
How true @JosABanks If it were overgrown, or trash-strewn, the city would come in and mandate a clean up or fine them and do it themselves. Dig a big ol’ pit and you do nothing forever. I’ll have to remember that for the future.
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They stapled a notice to the door and at one point even hung another notice from a branch on the back part of the lot. 
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Cityspace isn’t known for starting new projects until their current one is fully sold (didn’t start Dorothea until Rosengarten was done; didn’t start Caraleigh until Dorothea was done).
I would be surprised if they start on these before Caraleigh is done. Perhaps they were receiving too many fines from the city for the derelict houses and just decided that demoing them would be easier until Caraleigh is finished. Totally just speculating based on the builder’s history.
That being said, the enforcement in this part of town is pretty lax on nuisance properties. I don’t think the inspector does anything unless there are complaints. That’s not the case in other neighborhoods.
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But wait! Those aren’t 5 stories. I thought that we hated 3 stories downtown.
FWIW, I really like this aesthetic for edge DT neighborhoods.
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Man - those are beautiful! Love this type of “gentle density” leading up to neighborhoods. Would love to see this happen (soon!)
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Isabella Cannon complained about our yard, so the inspector acted pretty quickly.
And corner lot came with it too I think. I almost bought it as well but also opted to finish off my student loans.
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Attended last nights meeting about the Lynde (South St Condos). There will be two buildings – an East (~30 units) and a West (~50 units). They only want to increase the height of the West. From 3 stories to 4. Several reasons for this, but here is the gist.
They are really close to starting work on a $750K culvert project. When that’s done they plan to start on the East Bulding. The East building is smaller and will let them test and confirm the market. They can build “by right” so there should be no delays (yeah, right!!). While they’re doing the culvert work and starting the West building, they are going to try to go through the rezoning process on the East building.
Seems like everyone in the room (maybe 15 people??) were supportive.
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I think you have the buildings mixed up. They’re rezoning the East building closest to the intersection/corner. The West building will stay zoned as NX-3. I thought they said the culvert needed to be complete before anything else started.
A couple more things:
- The internal staircase doesn’t count as a floor, so the building on the corner will appear to be 5 stories if they proceed as planned because of the stacked unit on the top floor.
- The conditional use (CU) addition was for a bunch of self-imposed restrictions for bars, clubs, etc. I don’t understand the point of this if the developer intends to keep it all residential, as they stated. I’m thinking they’re either actually going to add ground floor retail or it’s just to buy neighborhood support for rezoning as a whole.
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correct. Sorry. West building stays the same. East is what they want to change.
I was moving to town at that point and in fact did (attempt) to go look at that one. Realtor and I had been looking at a lot of things in that price range and let’s just say we were less afraid of ugly properties than we had been, but that house, we didn’t even bother with the lockbox. You could tell standing on the porch that the structure needed to be demolished, not rehabbed. That it was still there until, what, last week… I never understood that, either.
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“The Lynde” otherwise known as the big hole in the ground at South Street and S. Saunders looks to be kicking off!! There’s heavy equipment, rock pile, and storage containers onsite now. I’ll get a pic here in a few. Oddly enough Karla and I left the condo this morning for a walk and didn’t take our phones! 
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This is going to be a huge boost for this area! Finally South Street will have something pedestrian oriented on the south side of the street, and without hunting the sitemap, I’m assuming a nice wide sidewalk is part of this development
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What’s that thing on the left in the top picture? I think I saw one of those in a movie about the Revolutionary War maybe? Something of such historical value should probably be allowed to remain on the site.
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