I looked at buying this last year – the brick really wasn’t salvageable.  The original sills and lintels had been removed and patched in with a different brick.  There is also some pretty shoddy rebuilding of one portion and a poor pointing job above the first floor window.  As much as I hate to say it, stuccoing it is really the best option besides completely rebuilding the wall.  Keeping the smaller openings is just pure laziness though, that’s inexcusable.

The blighted house across the street is currently being demolished as part of the NSP funded L&I demolitions.  I believe local Point Breeze contractor DD Fox is doing the demolition.

This block needs some construction on it badly, it’s right in the heart of Newbold but one of the most underdeveloped.

That place is hideous.

Can we stop calling it Newbold? It’s Point Breeze. Just because some rich white guy doesn’t want to sell homes to yuppies in a neighborhood with a bad stigma, doesn’t give him the right to “rename” it. 

Funny. That house in Northern Liberties is being built with cheap, white vinyl windows. Developers will do anything to save a buck. Good to see they recognize that black windows are more attractive. I mean, you render the best product possible, and then you build something else entirely. Isn’t that how it works?

This was another sale that was forced by L&I’s new initiative to hold owners accountable for the maintenance of their buildings.  Rather than pay substantial fines, the owner sold it to someone who would invest in the property.

sure it does. neighborhood names get changed all the time it’s no big deal

it’s on google maps now so deal with it

I propose calling the rest of Point Breeze – Oldbold

Architects usually design buildings with little regard for budgets or constructability.  Unfortunately in the real world most of those nice things cost more money than they return in sales proceeds so they get value engineered out.

I’ll give credit where credit is due… but this house was listed for sale 70 days before the Doors and Windows Ordinance went into effect, and settled 22 days before it went into effect.

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So because google says so, then that makes it legit? Areas are re-named as time goes on, this is true, but there are still a shit load of people in Point Breeze who didn’t get the memo that the neighborhood has a new name, nor did they probably want it changed.

Developers always trying to save a buck? Ever wonder why? Would it have anything to do with the crazy crap they must go thru just to build a house in this part of the city with people who are dumb, drunk, packed into an unaircondition room to vote if they want to have someone dump thousands into their block?

You know what I mean, so them trying to save a buck means they are just covering the cost of them crazy folks who show up at zoning hearings to start “somfthing”.

Who dat?

Except this rehab is done completely by right and doesn’t need neighborhood approval.

I appreciate hearing your perspective on this, Ben, since you are a resident. I’m not saying that I know of a better way to help one feel more of a connection to their neighborhood either. It just seems like a poor way to go about integrating into an already established neighborhood, regardless of how little establishment was going on at the time.

Looks like the neighbors finally agreed that there was a hint of colonialism in the name! I hear the Newbold Neighbors are changing their name!

That is interesting to hear. thanks for the update.