My posting last week, about a very nice two-story home demolished (“What’s the opposite of green? Maybe this”), has an update. Owner Max Redic says he’ll be building a new house on the site.
Redic said his family had lived in the house 10 years, had been thinking for five years about rebuilding. The house had mold and a 25-year-old HVAC system, he said. They’ve temporarily moved to another site in Charlotte and yes, he said, they do have a building permit for the new house. (The demolition permit posted said “Total res demo – No Build Back.”)
He said they recycled much of the building material, donated a good bit of the interior goods to Habitat for Humanity, and let the fire department use the house for training before the demolition.
And, he pointed out (as my blogpost had), it’s his property to do with as he wishes. A bit of context: The lot is near a number of others where nice, but older, houses have been torn down and much larger new ones built — some on spec by developers and some by homeowners.