The big news in EAV today is that the Homeless Hovel – aka 462 Flat Shoals Avenue – owned by Inman Park Properties has finally been torn down. Just six short years after buying one of the biggest eyesores in East Atlanta – rivaled by the John B. Gordon School, of course (another Inman Park Properties property) – and several months after first promising to tear it down (in the wake of some code violation citations), Jeff Notrica has finally taken the building down. Here”s the excavator finishing up the work today:
So well done. Mr. Notrica. Now just send that big claw machine down to the East Atlanta Lock & Key and B&W markets (now claiming the No. 2 and No. 3 spots in the “worst Inman Park Properties in East Atlanta” category) if you don”t mind.
Of course, it”ll be interesting to see how long the former hovel sits there undeveloped. Notrica owns the lot its on and the lot next to it, so there”s a lot of potential – another six years down the road?
Coupled with the pretty decent clean-up job Inman Park has begun to do on its East Atlanta properties, the action happening to open at least one restaurant in Inman Park”s Glenwood strip and small hints that something might actually happen with the old Tucker Automotive on Flat Shoals, Mr. Notrica is starting to improve his image in East Atlanta. But he has a long way to go.
I don”t know if it”s community pressure or the realization that his recent investments – more than $4.5 million for the Ace Hardware property and the Glenwood strip spaces in the last year – are harmed by neglectful landlords (see mirror, Jeff), but Inman Park Properties is doing better by East Atlanta these days. I hope they continue to do so. I know an old Atlanta school building that could use some love …
