The sidewalk area has been shaped for the pouring of a new sidewalk.
Temporary doors have been installed where eventually permanent ones will go.
And, in other news, this picture marks the demise of my camera. Two parts fell off behind the fence and out of reach. I decided it was time to buy a new camera, instead of continually nursing this one along.
House on Fremont street, for sale by owner. The lot next door has recently been cleared of its former house.
I did a triple take when looking at the price. $1,375,000 about $458,000 per lot. I mean, it’s Fremont Street, but it seems high to me.
Why not turn that vintage Westinghouse refrigerator into a fabulous beer display case?
(I’m subtracting points for refrigerated air constantly escaping the display case, but giving so many more bonus points for how it looks.)
I had to peek inside the butter keeper.
At the Beaumont Market.
There are no sidewalks, the other side of the building isn’t completed, the exterior still hasn’t been fully painted, but you are telling me you are preleasing? I can’t imagine things are finished inside.
The real estate marketing people are eternally optimistic.
It’s not unusual for houses to disappear, but this one was not for sale, and the last time I saw it, people were living there. And not the type of living where you disappear in the middle of the night, but where you have an entire carport full of stuff with a flapping tarp hanging down to make a sort of door.
The house wasn’t in great shape, but it wasn’t falling down. Not that the state of the house makes any difference as to its fate.
This is a smaller lot, so it was fence, house, bit of a front yard. They had tall fir trees with empty bird feeders.
They had barky dogs that would often run past the fir trees to the fence.
According to Portland Maps (link at the top of the post) Royal Custom Homes Inc owns the lot/house as of 5/4/15 with a recorded sale price of $262,000. The home was built in 1946.
Here’s a photo I grabbed. We shall see what comes next.
photo from: http://www.sunriverrealty.com/s/or/multnomah-county/portland/97217/1807-n-kilpatrick-st/dmgid_95719376.html
This shot was taken from the alley (and I can no longer remember why I was walking down the alley) instead of the street. I’m intrigued though. It’s where a blue house used to sit. I took a picture of it a few months ago and good thing, because it’s gone, baby. Gone. But what are they building here? Two skinny houses with a shared driveway? That was my initial thought, but I’ve been by since I took this photo and seen six water shut-off boxes. So maybe this will be six separate units?
Marriage equality? I could see that coming.
But the quasi-conservative mainstream newspaper of Portland, Oregon telling you how to grow your own? Kind of bowled (ha!) me over.
On the way into the Lone Fir Cemetery, I was met with this artist’s plea for money.
On my way to Lone Fir Cemetery to see Portland Actors Ensemble’s production of Macbeth, I did a triple take at the changes that have occurred since Matt lived in this neighborhood and we regularly drove through this intersection.
On the Southwest corner, this four-story mixed use building. I couldn’t remember what used to be here and the portlandmaps.com 2013 aerial photo told me it was an empty lot. Actually, if you look at this aerial photo from 2004 you can see the intersection as I usually saw it, albeit from a street level.
This corner had a few two-story buildings, one of which held a recording studio or music-type place.
This was an empty lot. It’s now a big condo complex.
And here’s the corner that hasn’t changed. Because it can’t. Because it has a cemetery.
Down the street where these tall condos were, there were single family homes.
Ch-ch-ch-changes. It was weird how the place where one’s eye finds the sky had shot so dramatically upward in my absence.
Thanks to vacation, it’s been more than a week since I took this trek to the train. What has changed with our apartment building?
Here’s the long view:
Windows have finally been installed in our middle panel.
But we’ve still got that construction cloth on the side.
