A success story — for a change — from the city’s snake-bitten program to preserve houses from the bio-medical center footprint by trucking them to different neighborhoods.
Tag: house moving
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
Slow-mo house-moving saga: a status report on a what seemed a dandy idea
Jacking up a hundred houses, placing them on trucks and rolling them across town was never going to happen at the speed of light.
Posted inSquandered Heritage
From preservation to demolition: Another moved house facing bulldozer
A second house moved to make way for a massive new hospital complex in Lower Mid-City is being considered for demolition after standing open to the elements for months. The city spent $35,450 to move the house, an effort to preserve part of the city’s historic housing stock. The fate of the house, now in […]