RebeccaSoup
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No place to sleep last night and it was raining... We just got a car so we kind of drove around aimlessly in the city we're both from. Pretty depressing, driving around NO place to go. NO (decent)friends, no family, in the town you were born in... But thats another (sob)story.
Racking my brain for an easy spot to crash, I came up with an abandoned apartment complex near the house I grew up in. It's in a pretty posh area of town. It was vacated in 2007 and I think, slated for demo to put in fancy condos... And yeah yeah yeah economy, etc.. Blah blah. So its just sitting there behind this barbed wire fence.
After a little recon we got in the fence pretty easily... And a little more put us up through a second story window. (The building is four stories)
ELECTRICITY IS ON AND.... (wait for it)
THIS BUILDING HAS NEVER BEEN SQUATTED.
No sign of homebums, very little bullshit vandalism. The third and fourth floors were seemingly unexplored. Every apartment door has been pried open, and theyre all full of trash and abandoned furniture.
We picked a room with a bed and crashed out for the night and woke up this morning to pick our new apartment... Went through and found some rad funriture and started moving in.. Now Im out to pick up some locks/cutters etc.
I have to mention that in the exploration of this place, I came across a railfans stockpile of FRAMED NS/UP/SP photos and maps. This place just couldnt get better... I mean. Maybe running water? No. Fuck that, its a squat.
Checked it out online, and found an article from over a year ago describing the plans for the lot.
A limited partnership led by XXXXXXX XXXXX, part of XXXXX Properties, bought the former XXXXXXXX XXXXX apartments in May for $4.25 million. The company recently filed plans to tear down the 104-unit apartments and rip out the surface parking.
Checked the rezoning hearing and everything went as planned they just never started demo. So if theres about... (lets see)... 140 or so folks who'd like to come have thier own apartments.. Electricity heat and ac.. (at least for now).. Just give me a shout and we'll talk it over. In the meantime, I'm going to give my shitty City a pat on the back for being so damn easy.. And head to the Trader Joes dumpster so I can stock up the refridgerator in my 4 million dollar squat. :scared:
Pictures soon.
-Becca
Racking my brain for an easy spot to crash, I came up with an abandoned apartment complex near the house I grew up in. It's in a pretty posh area of town. It was vacated in 2007 and I think, slated for demo to put in fancy condos... And yeah yeah yeah economy, etc.. Blah blah. So its just sitting there behind this barbed wire fence.
After a little recon we got in the fence pretty easily... And a little more put us up through a second story window. (The building is four stories)
ELECTRICITY IS ON AND.... (wait for it)
THIS BUILDING HAS NEVER BEEN SQUATTED.
No sign of homebums, very little bullshit vandalism. The third and fourth floors were seemingly unexplored. Every apartment door has been pried open, and theyre all full of trash and abandoned furniture.
We picked a room with a bed and crashed out for the night and woke up this morning to pick our new apartment... Went through and found some rad funriture and started moving in.. Now Im out to pick up some locks/cutters etc.
I have to mention that in the exploration of this place, I came across a railfans stockpile of FRAMED NS/UP/SP photos and maps. This place just couldnt get better... I mean. Maybe running water? No. Fuck that, its a squat.
Checked it out online, and found an article from over a year ago describing the plans for the lot.
A limited partnership led by XXXXXXX XXXXX, part of XXXXX Properties, bought the former XXXXXXXX XXXXX apartments in May for $4.25 million. The company recently filed plans to tear down the 104-unit apartments and rip out the surface parking.
Checked the rezoning hearing and everything went as planned they just never started demo. So if theres about... (lets see)... 140 or so folks who'd like to come have thier own apartments.. Electricity heat and ac.. (at least for now).. Just give me a shout and we'll talk it over. In the meantime, I'm going to give my shitty City a pat on the back for being so damn easy.. And head to the Trader Joes dumpster so I can stock up the refridgerator in my 4 million dollar squat. :scared:
Pictures soon.
-Becca