I would love to have salvaged a glass greenhouse. I have room for one.
I’m so sick of ‘developers’ who tear down what has already been developed in much better style and grace than they ever imagined, and who put up boxlike cheap structures that usually fill up with trashy people anyway and ruin the landscape.
Liberals love people to be all squashed together in housing projects and developements.
Sad story. There were gladiola farms around here after WW2, all gone now. You could find bundles of glads in almost any “dime store”. I don’t recall seeing gladiolas since about 40 years ago.
If it were up to me, you reverse course and rehabilitate the greenhouses which can be productive enterprises. Why bulldoze to build more Gov’t subsided housing when there is a glut of housing in California.
The bankruptcy of this project is shown by the 14 acres of greenhouses being bought in 2006 for 7.6 million but no movement to build the housing yet. Millions of dollars were wasted buying these properties not to mention the hundreds of thousands in bribes paid to connected hacks. My translation is the Japanese-American sellers made out like bandits and connected Hispanics will fill this “non-profit” built housing. Non-profit meaning taxpayers are paying