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This is the back and forth nature of development: while some aspects of a project gain speed, others slow down. On one hand, this development dance could seem frustrating but it’s all a matter of perspective. Sometimes things slow down for good reasons…and often you don’t know until afterwards the benefit of that change in pace.

Hopefully, that’s the case in our current situation with moving the Craftsman house currently on the site of the Newton Booth project. As of a week or so ago, the group we’d offered the house to decided they were unable to take the house after all.

Fortunately, we do have a couple of other interested parties, which gives us hope that the house can still be saved. But for a number of reasons outside our control, it now looks like it cannot stay in the neighborhood, so the roof will probably need to come off in order to move it to another part of Midtown, Alkali Flat, or Oak Park.

So if you know anyone that wants to work with us on it, drop me a line at: steve at ljurban dot com.

Steve