We mentioned last month that demolition was ahead for the Charmann Apartments at 5917 California SW, long boarded up after a history of complaints. Thomas, who lives nearby, sent the photo and word that the teardown is under way today. As reported here in February, a redevelopment proposal is in the works for the site – eight townhouses.
All in the name of affordable housing I presume? Let me guess, the new townhomes will start at $700K.
They paid $1.25 million for the land, add in demo and construction costs of the eight townhouse and they’ll be around $2-2.3 millions so yes, DB Coop, $700-1 millon/each sounds about right.
I believe your a little low on purchase price. Sad story with this property, could of been rehabbed a few years ago keeping lower rents in the area, but city nixed that…
I believe these apartments were pretty bad, not liveable. Why the complaint of any kind of housing? It’s housing.
You are correct. That building been condemned and unoccupied for years.
I shudder to think how many rats this demolition sent scurrying out into the neighborhood!
Surprising to see only two articles on WSB about this place. It’s been vacant since apparently 2011 and a source of complaints for years. Seems as if the DPD would go after them for a year or so and then a year of no records; this continued until the multiple records this year as the demo and replacement plan started in earnest. Built in 1967, it seemed to last just over 40 years. A shame, I bet it was pretty cool looking inside for a while. Guessing lousy tenants (they’re out there; wife and I managed an apartment building) and a lack of $ for maintenance did it in.
We are very much driven by tips and questions and I don’t recall this really having generated either over the years. However, since you mention it: The city had a longrunning abatement situation going, at least at some point. It was brought up by the former precinct liaison at a meeting a few years back. I tried to follow up but at that time there was nothing on the record and they weren’t ready to talk about it – I kept asking for a while but eventually it fell off my list. I just checked records for the person listed as the now-former owner and there is nothing so perhaps it wound up as an agreement rather than litigation. – TR
wild that a building can sit vacant for that long…especially in this city. thanks for the info, valvashon.
I wonder if the city paid anything to the guy who owned the building?
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