City-Owned Blight: 835 and 833 N Fremont Avenue
2January 22, 2013 by Baltimore Slumlord Watch
Property Address: 835 and 833 N Fremont Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217
Property Owner: Mayor and City Council, 417 E Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
City Council District and Contact: District 11, William Cole
State Senator: Verna Jones Rodwell
State Delegates: Keith Haynes, Keiffer Mitchell Jr, Melvin Stukes
835 and 833 N Fremont Avenue
I generally believe that old houses should be fixed up, instead of torn down. But you dont need to be a structual engineer to realise that these houses have to be torn down.
Right — some of them you can tell right away. When structural elements have been exposed to fire, or exposed to the elements for a period of time — the home is a goner. Replacing the inside structure of a home is costly, and in some neighborhoods…it doesn’t make sense to dump that amount of money into a home, especially when nobody’s doing the same with the surrounding blighted homes.