Real estate blog entries tagged with demolition

Blog entries tagged with "demolition":

demolition: On building on the beach - 06/22/08 10:28 AM

Friday I had a great conversation with Steve Murray of Murray Homes Inc (www.murrayhomesinc.com), who is a prominent and knowledgable builder of high-end coastal homes. We have a client who is smitten with Longboat Key ("LBK"), and he'd like a single-family home on the beachfront with one particular amenity required -- … (1 comments)

demolition: Barrington Village - Raleigh, NC - 06/06/08 10:29 AM

The Wall Street Journal Online has a piece today about Raleigh's Barrington Village and its developer, Builders of Hope. This neighborhood is one of the smartest uses of human and social capital and environmental responsibility I've ever seen. The idea is beautiful in its simplicity:
Instead of knocking down old … (0 comments)

demolition: Whooops - 05/14/08 07:24 PM

I'm posting this more for it's visual aspects than anything else.
My wife and I were on our way to a property auction in downtown Charleston today. A couple of blocks before we got to our destination we passed this.
It was enough to make me stop and get the camera out.

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demolition: Dog Hair in the Microwave, Horse Hair in the Walls - A Dover NH Condo Part 2 - 03/04/08 11:46 AM

Welcome to the transformation of a Dover, NH condo...for background info and "before" photos see my previous post "Watch as we Transform..."
After an entire day of preparation, which included cleaning, scrubbing, and more cleaning, day one was exhausting. Have you ever found hair in a microwave? We did...it was nasty. Hair was … (22 comments)

demolition: Dreams don't ask why... - 02/27/08 10:09 PM

(SHS Photo)
Just another old house being torn down in town.
Or is it?
It was someone's dream once to own this home.
And they did. Their family grew up there.
The dogs barked, the dishes were washed, the lawn was mowed,
the kids dreamed at night in their bedrooms:
What will I be when I grow up?
Isn't … (7 comments)

demolition: Another one bites the dust - 01/03/08 08:32 PM

No huge explosions or candlelight vigils for this oldie. Though not exactly Modern, the Camelot Inn near Brookside certainly had a Mid-Century charm to it. Pictured below in it’s prime, the building had fallen short of required maintenance over the years and destruction has now commenced.
It could be argued that … (1 comments)

demolition: Rehabbing A Home In St. Louis, Stage One - The Demolition! - 08/19/07 09:01 PM

My girlfriend Kathy and I just recently purchased a house that was very hip/happening.....back in 1968!

We started on the demolition about a week ago and have filled up a 20 yard dumpster with the debris so far! The first thing that had to come out was a wall that was … (8 comments)

demolition: West Palm, Boynton Beach to raze public housing, build mixed-use villages - 08/11/07 03:16 PM

Two reports, both cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Network:
West Palm Beach, Fla. --- The West Palm Beach Housing Authority announced it will seek a federal grant to demolish the Dunbar Village public housing facility relocate all 317 residents and develop a mixed-use village with housing, shops and retail stores on the … (0 comments)