Dilapidated Buildings in Areas of Victoria
#1
Posted 21 May 2011 - 02:01 PM
Are there other areas of our communities that we are not noticing the slow decline of? What can be done?
#2
Posted 21 May 2011 - 02:17 PM
That entire intersection could be terrific if some of the lousier commercial buildings ever get replaced and their parking lots ever get built upon.
#3
Posted 21 May 2011 - 03:25 PM
I dont understand why or how they get like this. Housing is so expensive here, if you move out or die, why the heck would you or who ever inherited your house let it sit abandoned for decades? If your health or finances have gotten so bad you can't afford the time or money for the most basic of upkeep and your house is now falling down, why not sell it?? The only reasons I can think are mental illness.
So many of these houses I pass and think "I'd love the privileged of owning that, fixing it up, and actually living in it or selling it to someone who does"
Here's one I pass quite often, and has been abandoned as long as I can remember. The odd thing is, it always has a perfectly mowed lawn.
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#4
Posted 21 May 2011 - 06:52 PM
#5
Posted 21 May 2011 - 08:11 PM
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#6
Posted 22 May 2011 - 06:55 AM
#7
Posted 22 May 2011 - 09:25 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#8
Posted 22 May 2011 - 02:41 PM
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#9
Posted 22 May 2011 - 03:35 PM
#11
Posted 23 May 2011 - 06:44 AM
#12
Posted 23 May 2011 - 07:58 AM
The Richmond section here is such a neat area I just wonder if the hospital is driving away buyers or tenants?
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I have always thought that if I were nuts enough to run a restaurant, I'd love to rehab Ian's back into a retro-fun edition of its old self. I've worked out of the RJH facility before, and there aren't enough good places to get off campus for coffee and a snack. There's Safeway/Starbucks and the White Spot - and (now, but not back then) the Black Stilt, but I bet there's more room in the market for the many who just need to Get Away from the hospital.
And the papered over store in the last photo is now Jivko (sp?) tile, a really creative (really expensive) place.
#13
Posted 23 May 2011 - 09:31 AM
I had friends visit from out of town awhile ago and they commented that the vast majority of houses in Victoria are run down. Paint peeling from the windows, cheap or unkept landscaping, houses that haven't been updated in 50 years. Their theory was that with real estate prices so expensive and salaries so low here, that no one had extra money just to upkeep their homes. The more I thought about it, the more they are right. A $600,000 house on a 30 year mortgage at 6% is over $4200 a month plus property taxes, hydro, gas, etc, etc. Who has money left to paint the house or fix the broken front steps?
Where are your friends from, concorde?
Not to be rude or anything, but your friends have some high expectations of home owners if they are put off by the lack of professional landscaping or updates to mid-century houses. Not everybody wants or cares for the sorts of luxuries or needs to put on a display of opulence that some individuals in certain communities can't do without.
This isn't Beverly Hills or a gated community in some distant suburb of Phoenix. It's a city with a mix of housing, and for anyone who's traveled even across North America, Victoria as a region represents one of the nicest collections of housing stock on the continent.
But to each his own, I suppose.
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#14
Posted 23 May 2011 - 09:42 AM
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-City of Victoria website, 2009
#15
Posted 23 May 2011 - 10:14 AM
...houses that haven't been updated in 50 years. Their theory was that with real estate prices so expensive and salaries so low here, that no one had extra money just to upkeep their homes.
Real estate prices have been expensive for 50 years? How did they react when you explained to them that their theory made no sense?
#16
Posted 23 May 2011 - 10:43 AM
It's a city with a mix of housing, and for anyone who's traveled even across North America, Victoria as a region represents one of the nicest collections of housing stock on the continent.
This is definitely my opinion as well, and I've lived in some pretty nice places on the west coast of NA, so I'm not even comparing to the fly-over parts of the continent.
#17
Posted 23 May 2011 - 02:05 PM
I thought Borden Mercantile had a plan for redeveloping that whole property, which I assume would include that comically out-of-place house. I can't imagine it's inhabitable, it is rotting so bad, yet as noted above, someone took the trouble to put a tarp over it.
Yes, there is someone living in that house and it's been occupied continuously for over 30 years. The plot of land that it sits on is too small to develop anything substantial as it's not part of the larger, commercial lot.
#18
Posted 23 May 2011 - 03:57 PM
#19
Posted 23 May 2011 - 04:54 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#20
Posted 23 May 2011 - 05:21 PM
http://maps.google.c...,138.69,,0,-0.3I've always thought this is an odd spot for a house to still exist, not that it's a particularly dilapidated house though -
Thursday August 19, 1909:
TO RENT - ONE DOUBLE AND one single room with board, nice locality, close to car. Apply 665 Gorge Road, corner Government.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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