Comments on: Ninth Street Vacant Property Survey

By: Rob Goodspeed

Rob Goodspeed — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:53:53 +0000

Hi Ann- Thank you, I have modified the list. All this just goes to show how useful an interactive community database for vacant property could be.

By: Ann Diggs

Ann Diggs — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:42:13 +0000

Hi Rob,

I happened upon your blog and noticed you had 1126 9th listed as vacant. It’s not vacant at all and has had the same family HVAC supply business operating there since 1958. I know this because it’s my family.

Things are finally coming around and old neighborhood is really coming together.

Thanks for interesting information.

Ann Diggs

By: Ed Six

Ed Six — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:42:59 +0000

Great work!

A developer gave a very nice presentation on a proposed plan for 1316 at the ANC2f meeting on 1/09/2008.

By: dar

dar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:07:22 +0000

Rob, thanks again for all these informative Shaw posts!

By: Mike Panetta

Mike Panetta — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:40:23 +0000

Very cool. Can you integrate into Google Maps??

By: DC1974

DC1974 — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:49:29 +0000

Obviously a lot of these are investor properties, being held on to until they are REALLY worth a fortune. Two options come to mind: (1) squatters rights and more realistically because this is still the U.S. where we worship private property (2) shame — this blog post is a good start, but when I lived in Oakland, CA, the CITY would put up huge billboards in front of abandoned property listing the contact information and otherwise asking them to do something about the abandoned buildings. I don’t know how well it worked, but it was a nice PR stunt anyway. The only ones I ever saw — and I think they had to be declared a nuisance building, either for having drug dealers or seismic issues or something — all were sold and otherwise occupied within a short time, but its hard to say, things were gentrifying rapidly in the bay area and abandoned property didn’t last long. There was such a huge property shortage. (Also, I hate the underlining and all caps for the comments — as a graphic designer, I can say that it makes the whole thing impossible to read and goes against at least two laws of good legibility and design.)

By: Si Kailian

Si Kailian — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:11:24 +0000

I love these maps with the highlighted buildings, I hope to do something similar for the next MVSNA vacant property update. (where did you get them?) I have a sneaking suspicion that very few of the vacant properties have been changed to class 3. glancing at your list, seems like shiloh is covered in that respect, unless some are exempted erroneously. but how in the world can Sendar’s smelly whore cafe still not be class 3? boggles the mind.

By: Shaw Rez

Shaw Rez — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:44:48 +0000

GREAT WORK, Rob!!! This is a most informative resource.

Of course, some of the vacant buildings listed are under renovation currently and will be reoccupied soon. Corduroy’s future home in the 1100 block, 1410 and come to mind, but there are others.

I wonder about a few of the parking lots that you left off–like the one near be bar and the Wings Motor lot at 9th and Q (I seem to recall it listed as a vacant lot; it certainly doesn’t seem to be an actual car dealership…).