A reader reports the sighting of an excavator and dump truck next to shuttered coworking space Caroline Collective at 4820 Caroline St. between Rosedale and Arbor Pl. in Museum Park yesterday. Plus, pictured at right, a little tag indicating that a required pre-demo sewer disconnect has been completed for the converted office property. “Sure enough, the time has come for it to be torn down,” the reader opines. “It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what will be going up, but according to [someone I ran into on the site] the correct answer is: townhouses.”
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The offices closed last September. The property was sold by owner Urban Deal to a residential developer last year.
- Previously on Swamplot: Quittin’ Time for Museum Park Coworking Space
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Digging for Homes
Another mid-century moderne lines up for the firing squad. Cheers Houston, your appreciation for history is impeccable!
Kine: The city gives many owners no choice. Try to improve a building and watch how many inspectors flock to your location to red tag you. We bought a few buildings that should have been demoed just down the street (same zip) and replaced windows, replaced siding, added insulation, added central air, etc. (and yes, we got permits, but we’re dealing with old red tags, or stop work on fixing problem X till problem Y has it’s proper paperwork filled out, etc.)
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So yeah… Each day we’re attacked by inspectors and the city — after having heavily invested in turning a pile of crap into a nice home for 30 some tenants. It’s a nice “F you very much”
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Honestly, given the challenges of keeping old things around, some days I wonder why MORE stuff isn’t just blown up.
Ditto Cody’s comments. The COH ,it seems, really wants old buildings demo’ed instead of preserved!!!