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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2997379, member: 716"] It's a shame. Those guys worked hard but just couldn't get financing. Same guy's owned the building for decades (since it was surrounded by housing projects and totally a no-go zone), think he's looking to cash out as other neighbors have done. It backs up to some vacant land and a very nice hidden 19th-century single-family house (owned by Woodbine, neighborhood hotel and cheapo student apartment developer, I think); there's a fixed-income senior housing complex on that side of the block, and a vacant city fire station and the vacant professional office building that most recently was home to a VA clinic on the near side of the block. And Woodbine recently subdivided one of their parking lots. So there's definitely some assemblage potential. Hope the building stays, it's not special but in a lot of ways better than the Disney stuff developers are building in the neighborhood. [/QUOTE]