Priviledge. Environmental privilege.

I would like to know who is demolishing this home and what is being built in it's place.

Waste… plain and simple after seeing the picture that @Jilly posted I am ammending my post. The original house should never have been allowed there and further it is an incredible waste and a disgusting display of excess for the sake of showing off in and of itself.

Is the angle on the bedroom just distorted or can you really get a bed this large (asks the person who sleeps w/ 2 kids, a dog, and a husband).

I think the original is a perfectly lovely house. I could move in. I don't understand why you would buy this just to tear it down.

“I would like to know who is demolishing this home and what is being built in it's place.”

The current house was built on 3 lots, zoning is single family residential.

“Is the angle on the bedroom just distorted or can you really get a bed this large (asks the person who sleeps w/ 2 kids, a dog, and a husband).”

If the pillows are standard size that’s a pretty big bed. If the pillows are Kings, its a small country.

I feel for the neighbors during demolition and construction.

When D Jeter was having if built he went around the neighborhood and apologized for the disruption.

This pic shows the neighborhood from the street, narrow residential street.

I really dislike new ( ish) mansions.

Sorry - When I said ".....what is being built." I meant what style of house. As in, what's wrong with what is there now. How did it become out of style in 11 years. The stuff that is going to wind up in the landfill from this house is mindboggling unless, of course, there is a recycling program for all the materials.

Sadly, this is all too common these days. Not ony is it wasteful and bad for the environment, but leaves hardly any "fixer-uppers" for those just starting out. Of course if you buy a property with a home on it, you can do whatever you want with it, but if you are going to tear down a 5-year-old home (I have seen this happen) why not just buy land and start fresh?

“Sorry - When I said ".....what is being built." I meant what style of house. As in, what's wrong with what is there now. How did it become out of style in 11 years.”

its my guess that the unknown current owner will -

1. build 3 multimillion $ homes on the site. This area of town has a mix of older (1930s) homes and more modern builds.

or

2. clear the property and declare it green space to be used by one and all. Just Kidding!

It's wasteful, but so was one house on a spot for 3.

(Even more wasteful when they are underwater in a few years.)

The house itself was too new to be a tragic loss. Even if it was designed by a renowned architect, she sure didn't strut her stuff on this one.

Sure hope they have a predemolition sale to save much of it from the landfill. I think your guess about three houses is correct. How many people could afford a house that size? yeah, i know the answer to that.

Maddielee is that Bayshore Boulevard? We have friends on Davis Island and drove that way to get to their house.

I’ve no love for the house being torn down, it’s exactly the kind of thing certain very successful types feel they have to build— conspicuous consumption at its worst. My fear would be that the three houses that go up in its place will be just as bad.

@dedtired we've done something like this when I was with Habitat but not on a multi-million dollar home.

We were invited into a few houses to take what we could salvage and sell in our ReStore. I would hire a contractor to carefully remove cabinets, commodes, countertops, lighting, appliances and sell them at my ReStore. And if I didn't have ReStore, I'd sell on the Internet for profit.

There is a house here that was built about 27 years ago on 5-6 lots. It had been on and off the market for at least 7 years starting at $6M odd and finally sold this year for $3.9.

Most people, even architecture buffs, would consider it unlivable, and it's not on a nice block. (I know someone who was stabbed in front of this house a couple years ago during a mugging attempt).

I believe the site was chosen because of the availability of adjacent lots and not much else.

Anyway, we are wondering if it's going to be lived in or torn down and replaced by 5-6 big row houses.

location location location. People with money do very crazy $$$$$ things to have a home where they want. Hopefully Habitat for Humanity will get some nice stuff for future builds.

“Maddielee is that Bayshore Boulevard?”

No, its on Davis Islands, across the bay from Bayshore.

Good Lord I had the wrong side of the bay! I‘m glad that thing wasn’t built on Bayshore. Which btw I thought was a historically significant area protected from that kind of development. Now that I am looking at Jinx’ photo I see there’s no boulevard on the waterfront. I can’t find the forehead slapping duh emoji, lol.

Bayshore is still there, I should be walking it tomorrow morning.

Bayshore has the world’s longest continuous sidewalk - trivia fact.

Years ago the city said there would be no more high rise buildings built on it. Well Well, that changed.

Wow!!

That’s criminal, Maddie. Does Hyde Park even exist any longer?

The Hyde Park area is still lovely.

One thing I like about my boring midcentury ranch neighborhood is that somehow it's a quasi historical district and people can't tear down or build up.

We could use more affordable--and denser--housing in the area of course...

The covered entry and the filling of nearly the entire lot makes the existing structure look like some sort of overbuilt downtown motel. (Called The Kram Inn maybe?) And it is certainly completely out of scale with the setting - an attractively designed or innovative house that fit on one lot with the other two lots consisting primarily of grounds to produce an estate effect would have been far more elegant and impressive.

That bed needs its own zip code.

Obnoxious wastefulness. Building a house that's too big for you in the first place, but then for the next buyers to only tear it down after 11 years? ugh.

Beagles, see if you can get the bed in the moving sale, LOL.

Not the kind of thing happening around me, but I've seen it quite a few times in the tony areas along our lakes or in beach towns or desirable urban neighborhoods. One family friend lives in a nice one story suburban ranch with a finished basement in a nice suburb of Detroit, and a giant two story house that takes up almost all of the lot went in next to her . . . it's happening all over her neighborhood and the same for my friend who lives in a nice suburban ranch in Chevy Chase MD, a suburb of Washington DC. Modest suburban homes aren't enough for the newer generation I guess . . .