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That's the way the cornice crumbles in Fields Corner

By adamg on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 9:38am
Crumbling, abandoned building on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester

Around 9 p.m. on Thursday, a roving UHub photographer snapped the long abandoned building at 499 Geneva Ave., at Vinson Street, in Fields Corner after parts of it collapsed to the sidewalk. Fortunately, she reports, nobody was hurt (unlike what happened last fall in Allston).

Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Free tagging: 
Geneva Avenue
Fields Corner


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Comments

By Refugee on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 10:09am.

If only Boston had some kind of authority to seize and do redevelopment of these blighted properties.

By anon on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 11:32am.

They are too busy giving subsidies to multi-million or billion dollar entities or giving away city owned land at bargain basement prices.

By Carmella on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 1:11pm.

Too busy giving free shit to illegals and people who refuse to work to worry about that stuff. I don’t think seizing private property is a good plan. Who decides what is a “blight”? Maybe the political donating developers who have their eyes on properties that they’ll convert into transient housing for people who add nothing to the neighborhood as they’ll only be here for a year or two.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 1:36pm.

Q-Anon Wingnut Talking points salad for Saturday Brunch

By BB from Dot on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 12:37pm.

According to the city's assessing site, this property is owned by someone in Weston:

https://www.cityofboston.gov/assessing/search/?pid=1600826000

By Gary C on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 1:14pm.

overdue

By mplo on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 2:16pm.

that the owner (s) of the property clearly went really arears on their taxes. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

By Tony on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 3:34pm.

This property has been an eyesore for years! I hope the owner is fined up the wazoo / forced to sell (preferably) or fix the property. Tear it down, and rebuild into a gorgeous coffee shop for everyone in the area to enjoy. Ask anyone who lives right off Geneva what they'd like to see on Geneva that doesn't already exist, and you'll hear: coffee shop, coffee shop, coffee shop.

By BB from Dot on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 12:58pm.

Maybe the Home.stead folks could open a second location.

By Carmella on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 5:14pm.

Perfect location if you want your coffee customers to be at risk for getting hit with a stray.