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| Looking south on South Broadway; Cooper Foster Park is left to right in the foreground |
Oh, Broadway Assembly is still there; and so is Flowerama (in the former gas station) on the southwest corner. But the tiny white house on the northwest corner has been demolished, as the large property it sat on for decades is finally being redeveloped. That's it in the photo above.
Here's a closer look at what it looked like. If you were sitting at the traffic light, it was easy to overlook with the monstrous spruce (?) trees crowding it.
Here are a couple 'then and now' treatments.
Anyway, seeing that the house has finally succumbed to progress made me feel a little wistful. But least apparently something is going to be built on that corner, unlike countless other properties in Lorain where a building is torn down and replaced with: nothing.
100% agree that the Lorain County Auditor website has become useless. It was always so user friendly until the lastest "upgrade".
ReplyDeleteI agree, as a Real Estate agent, this sight is absolutely horrible to use. Sometimes change isn't good.
DeleteThat little house just got crowded out more and more over the years.Everything built up all around it.With all the traffic now,there is no privacy there.I always wondered how it looked inside?I bet a gas station is going in.Now that house immediately behind it is out in the open for everyone to see when the tenants get out and walk around the yard.It's like being in a glass bowl.Time for them to move too.And progress continues I guess.
ReplyDeleteI'll agree with you, Dan, the auditor's mapping used to be 'way easier to use. I hope the latest "upgrade" provided their office with useful and time-saving features 'cause it sure didn't seem to do much for those of us on this side of the application. It's almost as if you need to know the owner to find a property, but I managed to do it backwards. The listed owner of the property appears to be DAMSA LTD. and includes 1.38 acres.
ReplyDeleteHey, they didn’t chop down the two trees! Whatever, if anything, they put there I hope the trees stay.
ReplyDeleteI believe there use to be a produce stand that faced 254 next to the house. I remember my familyl stopping there when I was a little kid. I must of been thirsty because I remember an old timer taking me over to the water spigot for a drink.Every time I'm stopped at that light I look at that spigot and remember that old guys kindness.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is going to be a Dunkin. That's what we were told several years ago. The owner of the property is a franchise for Dunkin as well. I just hope it doesn't make traffic terrible like the one down the street on Leavitt.
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