Yes, that's the place. I think radryan was trying to be funny... Permit posted on front says '5 floors-4 residential units'. Unless we're giving former convicts/druggies floor-through apartments these days - I'm assuming it will just be another residential building...

Quote: Surely you jest. Who would put a halfway house/methadone clinic right next door to a liquor store? Are you talking about this place?

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I heard it is going to be halfway house/methadone clinic - it ran light on state funding and as result is taking longer to complete.

Crackpipe?

Ratables?

Blah blah, blah, Bob Boblaw, blah, blah. Blah-baba. Blah Taxes. Blah, blah blah. Blah been here longer than you. Blah blah blah. Blah. Bob Boblaw. Taxes.

Whatever it is gonna be, it is completely inappropriate
to the historic district, and like most of the
building projects that are going on now, it has
slipped past all the requirements of the historic
district guidelines for building within a district.
I have a similar monster project behind me on
Erie St. that is almost totally illegal, yet it
somehow (we know how, now, don't we)
got approved and is moving forward.
They have apparently run out of funding
for a while, so it is sitting fallow ... but I
am sure someone will pick up the project
and carry it thru to completion.

Another example is the disgusting building
that got put on 4th St. between Erie and Manila.
What a shocking mess.

There is a huge building planned for the
parking lot space at PS2. We need to
keep an eye on that one: the plans that
were shown the city agencies and that got
approved may not be the structure that
actually gets built. That's a big game here:
show the city some pretty drawings, get
them approved, and then go ahead and
build a cheap heap that looks like Soviet
era hospital architecture.

The various neighborhood associations seem
to be asleep on these issues. Years ago,
the various nabes were very concerned
about new construction, but times have
seemingly changed. Nowadays, citizens
must protest all this unnecessary and
unsuitable building on his/her own.
But just one voice means less than zero to the
city. Too bad for we folks who take
pride in having brought the downtown
back from the assured ruin that the city had
planned for it back in the seventies.
Today, developers come and do
whatever they want, and don't pay any
taxes to boot. How do you like them apples,
all of you soon-to-be-reval-ed taxpayers?

Does anyone know what is being built on the corner of Erie and 7th Streets? The building is about 5 stories high. I can't seem to find any info on it...