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Seems a bit wasteful. Will they be turning it into a park for children or something that makes sense or just spitefully leaving it undeveloped and economically useless?
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Doesn’t make much sense to me, either. I’ve never quite understood the notion that because something bad happened in a house, the house is somehow altered because of it. The house isn’t guilty of anything.
(I have much the same reaction to the notion of hallowed ground - “It was on this very spot that X did Y, so we should put a fence around it. People will come from miles around to gaze upon it.” It’s just dirt.)
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I’m assuming that Newton owns the home?
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Yes, Newtown owns it. It had a whopping mortgage on it when the owner was killed (about $400k). The bank acquired it, and then decided to donate it to the town, probably realizing that its market value was severely depressed because of superstitious buyers. If they had to continue to maintain it for months or years while trying to sell it, it would have been a loser.
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I wonder how the town get title to it? I’d guess unpaid taxes.
On one hand, it does seem stupid and pointless, but, on the other, it has to be dragging down property values for the entire neighborhood.
And even if you were one of those people who are so free of superstition that you’d ordinarily gleefully take advantage of the opportunity to buy a house where a non-notorious murder took place at a huge markdown, you’d still have to think twice about this one when you consider the likelihood you’d take a loss on it if you ever sold it, even as the tax value kept pace with the the homes in a neighborhood where the first murder in the most atrocious spree killing in American history took place.
Right now, its just a magnet for Goth teens with candles and Ouija boards, crazy people and haunted attraction speculators.
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Meh.
If you bought it and kept it for 20 years, the notoriety might die down. I should think the town would be willing to sell at an attractive price.
Sandy Hook Killer whose prepper mother had more unsecured guns & ammo than some police departments scattered all over the house
Exactly, a lot of bad stuff happened in the White House from 2000-2008, but Obama still has no problem living there…
And technically what happened “at that house” was that he shot his mother. She was the idiot who bought him all the guns and refused to give him mental treatment. And no matter what they do to this place, it’s still “the site where Adam Lanza used to live”. Again, seems like a waste.
That’s a fairly big attractive house. What is it? The Amityville horror? Can’t believe they couldn’t get someone to buy it at a reduced price…eventually.
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<foxnewsmode>Isn’t that the same house where Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster?</foxnewsmode>
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Definitely wasteful, but I seriously doubt they will be turning it into a park for kids since Lanza murdered a bunch of kids, that would even be worse than just leaving the house there and letting someone buy it. Frankly if the price was right, I don’t know why someone would not want to buy the house and live there.
Maybe an animal shelter would be nice, but it’s residential zoning, so I doubt that. Hmmm, there is a big gun group in Newtown from what I recall. Maybe they should make the CEO of that company live there…
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Wasteful, but after the demo they can probably build another site on the house and sell it. The bank got a pretty good deal, since that donation comes right off their taxes.
Awesome! The school’s gone too. Now we can forget this ever happened.
Hey, Walmart’s having a gun sale this weekend!
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I dunno man…this whole demolition thing is really in the realm of symbolism already…what better way to symbolize the community’s triumph over what happened than to build a park there for little kids to play?
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The town recently acquired the parcel for $1, through the generosity of the bank that reclaimed the house when the estate of Nancy Lanza, Adam’s mother, stopped paying the balance on a $400,000 mortgage.
Lizzie Borden’s house in Massachusetts is now a bed and breakfast, but 122 years had to go by first.,
Valid point and I agree. But thinking about it, it’s a residential neighborhood so it’s not really zoned for a park, you would have lots of traffic and parking issues. But you would think they would have a plan on what they were going to do with the property BEFORE they destroy the house.
Bad House! Bad House! Talk about a ritual cleansing.
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