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Do bad neighbors drive down housing values? This question is bound to come up sometimes. Even in the poorest neighborhoods, there are well-maintained houses and yards. But between overgrown yards and packed driveways, this neighborhood feels sad without being exceptionally poor.
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Today’s walk covered the area immediately around West Sixth Brewery and Coolalvin park. There is definitely an energy here, centered around the retail on Sixth and Jefferson. This is an older neighborhood and is outwardly focused, but not overly so. There are occasional brightly-painted houses but nothing engages the street quite the way the brewery does.
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The biggest story here is an essentially unwalkable street (Todd’s Road between Palumbo and Woodhill) with two mini-neighborhoods on each side, completely cut off from nearby opportunities (including the soon-to-be-completed Eagle Creek branch library). The neighborhoods themselves are unique, with some cute homes and mixture of density.
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The second walk in a row though a neighborhood with houses and lots well larger than average, this time in the older Lansdowne-Merrick area. This neighborhood has some nice features, including access to Lansdowne Merrick Park through several different cul-de-sacs. It has fewer street trees and the main thoroughfare, Montevesta, feels more plain than Day 101’s Kenesaw.
