blight and demolition
Latest St. Charles Avenue demo request pits neighbors against neighborhood association, splits city panel
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The request by Jack Ryan to demolish a mansion on a lot he wants to buy at the corner of St. Charles and Valence for a new home drew the support of immediate neighbors, but not the St. Charles Avenue Association, and the Neighborhood Conservation District Committee was unable to successfully vote to either defer the project or allow the demolition, reports Karen Gadbois of The Lens. The 125-year-old house, heavily modified in the early 1920s, is a “a one-of-a-kind piece of St. Charles Avenue history,” according to a brief article about it by the Preservation Resource Center.