Photo By John HoffI've written before about 1716 26th Ave. N., click here, and how this property was at the flashpoint of the "Jordan Riot," more properly known as the "Gang House Riot."
So that's what I'm going to begin calling it. No more Jordan Riot. That term is dead to me.
It is now the "Gang House Riot."
The house, owned by slumlord Gregg Johnson, now has a...
...red "condemnation" sticker on the front door. Actually, it appears the sticker went up August 20, but I just didn't get around to writing about it until just now. It's hard to even keep up with the massive, permanent changes in NoMi brought by the foreclosure crisis which--oddly enough--has a silver lining when it comes to bad actors like Gregg Johnson.
Little by little, without moving an inch, this house appears to be inching toward the abyss. In some ways, that's too bad. Imagine what a success story this house could be if some good and decent neighborhood "revitalizers" moved in, right next to the lovely Jordan Garden?
It would be great if somebody offered Gregg Johnson a nominal sum for the house, and poured money and effort into making it nice, but one suspects Gregg isn't really in a position to sell. The banks do their thing, the city does its thing, the financially overextended slumlords do their thing. Who suffers?
The 100-year-old houses suffer. And the neighborhood suffers, if we destroy irreplaceable classic housing stock that really could be saved. As Realtor Connie Nompelis puts it so well: OF COURSE this house can be saved. The only question is, who is going to save it?
(Oh, by the way: Nompelis is pronounced No-buhl-iss. It's Greek)
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