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.
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Cool beer display.
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.
Preleasing for August what, exactly?
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.
I go away for a week and a house is *poof* gone!
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
What will appear here?
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?
The Oregonian is showing you how to grow your own.
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.
Interesting funding mechanism
On the way into the Lone Fir Cemetery, I was met with this artist’s plea for money.
Corner of Morrison and 20th unrecognizable.
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.
City of Roses Motel, what have we missed?
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.
Three sentence movie reviews: Say Anything
This was playing at a park near the river during my visit. We opted not to see it because it was too late, and I had a very early flight, but then, much like Ione Sky in the movie, we watched it at home anyway. Alas, one of our party (who had never seen it) still has not seen it due to the lateness of the hour and work obligations the next day.
Cost: Sara owns
Where watched: Minneapolis home of Sara and Shawn.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1989/say_anything.html
I love how you can see the fold marks.