Jill Orlov got a bad feeling last week when she saw a demolition contractor surveying the outside of 3511 and 3513 Clipper Road, a combined 19th-century historic stone building. Orlov, an architect-turned-artist, said she approached the contractor to ask what was being planned for the mill home.
“I think it’s coming down,” he responded, Orlov says. She figured he meant just the concrete addition in the rear of the building. “Not all of it,” she asserted.
He told her he was sure it was the whole structure.
The writing is now on the wall, with a sign posted outside 3323-25 Clipper Road listing a scheduled demolition on June 15. In place of that building and a neighboring one at 3511-13 Clipper Road, developer CLD Partners is eyeing a five-story apartment complex with dozens of units of “high-quality workforce housing,” said Chris Mfume, the firm’s managing partner.
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