Posted on Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 6 p.m.
Crews demolish blighted house at First and Kingsley in Ann Arbor
By Amy Biolchini
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An excavator begins to tear apart a house at the intersection of Kingsley Street and First Street on Monday morning. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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An excavator begins to tear apart a house at the intersection of Kingsley Street and First Street on Monday morning. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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Demolition Supervisor Richard McCauley operates an excavator to demolish a house at the intersection of Kingsley Street and First Street on Monday morning. "The house will be in the ground today," McCauley says. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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An excavator crane dumps debris and wreckage into a dumpster at the site of a demolition at First Street and Kingsley Street on Monday. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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Demolition Supervisor Richard McCauley operates an excavator to demolish a house at the intersection of Kingsley Street and First Street on Monday morning. McCauley has wrecked more than 100 homes. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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Demolition Supervisor Richard McCauley looks at the partly destroyed house at the intersection of Kingsley Street and First Street on Monday morning. "The house will be in the ground today," McCauley says. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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An excavator finishes demolishing a house at the intersection of Kingsley Street and First Street on Monday morning. Daniel Brenner I AnnArbor.com
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Crews demolished a blighted, abandoned house at North First and East Kingsley streets in Ann Arbor Monday, marking a clean slate for the property after years of progressive states of disrepair.
The city of Ann Arbor purchased the property at 219 W. Kingsley St., as well as a property down the street at 215, in March using a FEMA grant.
A rain garden is planned for the site, which is in the floodplain and has had serious flooding issues. The Ann Arbor Public Arts Commission also has selected it for a public art installation.
Amy Biolchini covers Washtenaw County, health and environmental issues for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at (734) 623-2552, amybiolchini@annarbor.com or on Twitter.
Comments
mikeh
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 6:01 p.m.
It is West Kingsley not East
Ann English
Sun, Jul 21, 2013 : 1:23 a.m.
Right at the west END of Kingsley.
jns131
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 2:32 p.m.
Sounds like Ann Arbor is trying to keep up with Ypsilanti? Good job Ann Arbor.
Elaine F. Owsley
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 11:41 a.m.
Your gallery shots aren't working. Stuck on first photo.
Tru2Blu76
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 6:05 a.m.
What great luck! Now the city has a place to hide the ugly artwork (see: Leaning Phallic Symbol of Ann Arbor) they've been buying lately. Nothing says "Hope & Change" better than a house demolition. :-)
Halter
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 12:45 a.m.
All I can say is "its about time" -- I moved out of that neighborhood 10 years ago, and THEN it was already just an abandoned eyesore rapidly decaying...thank goodness....
Arboriginal
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 12:36 a.m.
McGovern for Truth!
Linda Peck
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 12:03 a.m.
It will be much prettier to view a garden from the jewelery business than the house that "stood" there for so long.
Billy
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 10:55 p.m.
Wasn't that a "punk house" at one point....which is why it was run into the ground in the first place?
Randy Parrish
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 4:36 p.m.
No that place was down on Miller ave a few blocks away, this place was run down for ever and the last I saw a poor family lived there some 10 to 15 years ago, it has since been a boarded up crack house.