Hello everyone

Welcome Historic House Guy
I’m a lover of old houses and buildings both large and small that are located all over Middletown.

Spider why don't you find someplace to live that helps you have a more positive perspective on life.
Your negativity is old.

Thank you, HHG and welcome to Middletown.  Best wishes to you in your restoration project.  The Crawford Street / Sutphin Street area was a targeted rehabilitation area only five years ago.  I suggest that you speak with Mr. Adkins at city hall to ask that this area is once again designated for the intensified use of CDBG and HOME Program funds.

lol perplex

Welcome to Middletown Vermont folks! I apologize for what the city has become, as you see it, versus what it was at one time. If you are somewhat impressed with it now, you would have absolutely enjoyed the heck out of it years ago in better days.

Sutphin St. was a very respectable location in the city 40-50 years ago. Has steadily gone down a bit as the people who took pride in the area either died or moved out and the "new generation" moved in, some not caring as much as the older generation. Now, the area resembles so much of the city where once nice, well taken care of neighborhoods have fallen into disrepair. Sad to see it develop over all these years. This scenario has slowly moved from the west and south side toward the north and east sides in the last 4 decades. Once very respectable neighborhoods like Euclid, Kensington St. and the upper end of Jackson Lane, all off of Grand Ave., an area where I grew up, have been knocked down a peg or two by the movement.

On another note.....Spider gives us some insight on just who Middletown29 is as he mentions the roof being removed from the City Centre Mall. The leaders at the time included Fred Sennett and company, didn't it? Was Becker in that group at that time? Sad state of affairs back then. One group of council people encloses downtown and puts a roof over it and another group of council people spends 13 million to remove the roof and mall. The mall never did produce a dam thing for the money spent. And so it goes in the ever present soap opera of inept thinkers who run this town. Still going on with the current council. Just a different angle of ineptness. Sad.

Friendly acquaintances--best way to have it
Unfortunately what was planned b4 the current crew is probably no longer relevant
Might as well deal with how it is now IMO

Perplexed wrote: SpiderJohn,   The massive city residential demolition program now in progress is:   1)  having little to no negative impact upon neighborhoods experiencing minor disinvestment and decline west of Highland Park, etc.? 2)  is limited mostly to the older, impacted areas of Ward 2? 3)  encourages property maintenance and growing percentages of home ownership in census tracts with concentrations of low- to moderate-income households? 4)  generating a stabilized property tax base and improved marketability of residential properties in aforementioned neighborhoods? 5)  transforming the city into a Pickerington-like community?

Anyone interested in seeing the work I do, please visit https://www.facebook.com/RestoreOhio