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• KC February 14, 2013 at 10:32 am

  At this rate, Oak Forest will be a completely new subdivision in a year.
• miss_msry February 14, 2013 at 12:48 pm

  Wow, just WOW!
• d February 14, 2013 at 12:50 pm

  I think its a shame in a way what is happening. I don’t mind a few tear downs, but I think the neighborhood would have a lot more character with some more restorations/additions. Wakefield seems to be ground zero.
• claire de lune February 14, 2013 at 1:00 pm

  12 in one day! This must be some sort of record, even for Oak Forest.
• Anse February 14, 2013 at 1:30 pm

  The thing about Oak Forest is you’ve got these giant lots and these rather small houses. I don’t like all the tear-downs either (I live in this area myself) but the new builds would be fine if so many of them weren’t so…mundane and predictable, like the lick-and-stick limestone facades that Swamplot jokes about so often. It’s really tired.
• Nealio February 14, 2013 at 1:31 pm

  Is a perimeter forming around the Petrol Station?
• Al February 14, 2013 at 1:46 pm

  KC:

  Wikipedia claims Oak Forest has 5,523 homes. If we assume 200 or so have already been replaced – that may be low – it would take about 15 months (based on a 7 day a week schedule, which can’t happen) for permits to take all of them down to march through the system.

  So still less than 2 years, with some days off. Yikes!
• Al February 14, 2013 at 2:21 pm

  Nealio:

  From the Section map on the Oak Forest website, it appears the Petrol Station is not in Oak Forest, but is just east of the most easterly boundary of Section 1, which is Golf Street.

  It is not in Garden Oaks, either.
• matx February 15, 2013 at 5:51 am

  Demolition started Monday (2/11) at 1570 Hewitt–it was completely gone by Valentines’s Day.