Hooray! My 10th installment of “Who wants to be our neighbor”! If you’re just joining us, you can click on the little tiny text link above to the “Home Improvement” section to find all the past installments of this ongoing series. I’m not a realtor or anything (I recommend Joe Peffer). I’d just love to see more people moving over here to the King Lincoln District on the Near East Side and rehabbing some beautiful old homes within a very short walk of Downtown. We’ve been living over here for nearly a year and love it! Anyway… on to the findings:
226 North 17th Street
$39,900
6 br 2 ba
Size: 2720 sqft
Price per sqft: $15
80 North Monroe Avenue
$285,000
3,494 sqft
Multi-Family Home
Price/sqft: $82
109 Winner Avenue
$49,000
4 br 1 ba
Size: 2184 sqft
Price per sqft: $23
84 Hamilton Park
$249,800
5 br 2 ½ ba
Size: 2,520 sqft
Price/sqft: $99
360 North Garfield Avenue (No Photo)
$29,500
Multi-Family Home
2,460 sqft
Price/sqft: $12
North Monroe Avenue (No Photo)
$111,000
4 br 2 ba 2,474 sqft
Single-Family Home
Year Built: 2002
Price/sqft: $45
Great to see the effort and commitment to revitalize a neighborhood—and as with the green movement, you’ve noted the proximity to downtown can take time off a commute and help reduce our city’s energy footprint.
Hi David! Thanks for the comment!
Yeah, the proximity to downtown should be a great selling point for anyone who wants to invest in this up-and-coming neighborhood. Many of these homes are a 20-30 minute walk from Broad & High, or a 10-15 minute bus or bike ride.
I’m all for the “revitilization” of a neighborhood but we all know that’s just a pretty word for gentrification…which is just another word for….well, nevermind. Anyway, I hope this historic area doesn’t grow in such a way that it drives out the hard working class people who can appreciate and keep up with the new developements and usher in a bunch of yuppies who want to turn the area into another short north. I’ve already started to notice the reverse “white flight” in old towne east. I like to think we can coexist without one group (white, gay, young, etc) trying to take over. Then I wake up…..
I don’t think gentrification is a bad word at all. The Near East Side was a beautiful, vibrant, and economically active area 50 years ago. Today it’s got only a fraction of the population. The median household income in 43203 is $15,000 with over 40% below the poverty line. What the area needs are businesses providing the area with better job opportunities, and safe affordable housing for people of all backgrounds. We need more neighborhoods that are socially, economically, and racially diverse.
I don’t really see anything wrong with wanting to help restore a neighborhood to it’s former state.
I was told by my neighbors that the home we purchased had not had a family living in it for around 15 years. Everyone I’ve spoken to on my block has been very friendly and excited to see a family has moved back in.
Take a stroll down any of the streets in the King Lincoln District. You’ll notice plenty of beautiful, historic homes that are abandoned and dilapidated. This isn’t about any demographic taking over and pushing out another demographic. It’s about filling in the giant gaps in our inner city core and providing downtrodden areas to lift themselves back up to where they were before.