So the East Windsor Co-generation plant, that is being built beside the Albert Kahn designed Ford Power House is progressing. In the meanwhile, they have been buying up the houses along Cadillac Street, and knocking them down.
This multi-colored cinderblock duplex was at the south end of Cadillac.
This great looking craftsman styled house fell as well. IMO the nicest old house on the block.
The house north of the Craftsman.
Two very similar houses just south of Riverside.
This house, is on the corner of Riverside and Cadillac. The property owner is involved in quite the battle to get her property sold. She has a blog documenting the process here: http://www.homesellersbeware.blogspot.com/. Check it out, it make for an interesting read.
Looking north up Cadillac toward Riverside.
This shot is from the summer of 2007. As you can see the block was quite dense with many houses. All of them to be wiped out in less than a year.
There is truly something rotten to the core with a city that allows this kind of old solid housing stock to be wiped out, yet it gleefully throws up crappy ass subdivisions in every empty field.
Somethings gotta give soon… Otherwise we’re all in serious trouble.
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About 10 years ago I was looking pretty seriously at buying one of those homes. All the interior was still intact w/ hardwood and real wood baseboards and door jambs. There was a screened-in balcony on the second floor with a view of Belle Isle. At the time there were a lot of concerns about the foundations and vibrations from the existing power house. That block of Cadillac was nice, quiet, had a park and easy access to Riverside Drive. It was quite an idillic street.
I have a big smile on my face Chris..Why? Back in the seventies when I was attempting to establish myself as a professional visual artists in this city, while I worked on the line at Ford, I to looked at the boarded up stores, with homes attached to them on Drouillard as studio/gallery/living space. And like you thought that the street had potential as a new Soho,
Just wondering where is the Interim Control bylaw etc. to protect this neighbourhood and heritage evaluation? Just wondering!