Crowd Gathers To Watch Transfer Of Historic San Jose House Constructing – CBS San Francisco
SAN JOSE (KPIX) – Under the watchful eye of a large crowd of onlookers, work teams carefully lifted a 111-year-old apartment building onto a massive wheeled trailer on Sunday as the historic building prepared to move to a new address.
The Pallesen four-part house currently located at 14 E. Reed St. has been relocated to 4th and Reed Streets. The move will make way for a mixed-use commercial and 336 residential high-rise.
The only big step I would have liked to see was the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavor through LA. This move here in San Jose today is pretty cool too. @SJPD_PIO @SJSpotlight pic.twitter.com/UC3Eh5zspt
– Romeo Durscher (@romeoch) March 28, 2021
Away from the original lot! Time to make tons of tiny adjustments so this house can slide down to its new home at 4th & Reed. pic.twitter.com/ioYrGdHpD5
– San José Housing Dept. 🏙️🏘️ (@sjcityhousing) March 28, 2021
“It’s just such a cool old building,” says Daniel Garcia, who lives near the building. “It’s great that you keep this. It has nice old bones and that the community has come together to raise money for it is pretty great. “
The move may not have happened had it not been for a community-wide effort to maintain it. Ben Leech, the executive director of San Jose’s Preservation Action Council, said the original plan to move the building fell apart with the outbreak of the pandemic.
“Nobody gave up and set the stars,” said Leech. “To see how it ended up in the landfill, nobody really thought they could take it.”
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Leech said former owner and current developer KT Urban and Scape San Jose LLC donated the building to Habitat for Humanity East Bay / Silicon Valley, which will later rehabilitate the apartments and sell them to low-income families for less than half the market value sell.
The city guides have essentially donated the land on which the building will soon rest; Habitat for Humanity was billed at $ 1.
Eventually, parishioners donated around $ 265,000 to help fund the building’s move.
“We are really very happy that it will roll on the road on Sunday,” said Leech. “In fact, I’ve never seen a structure move like that.”
The Garcia family watched the trial last year.
“They’ll probably block this whole street, take it in the middle and go back inside,” Garcia said. “It will be fun.”
