{"id":865,"date":"2004-06-10T05:36:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T10:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-end-of-the-magic-garden\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T05:36:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T10:36:54","slug":"the-end-of-the-magic-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-end-of-the-magic-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"the end of the magic garden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apus_story.asp?category=1110&amp;slug=Threatened%20Art\" class=\"broken_link\">Philadelphia sculpture garden in danger<\/a> [ap,  via seattle post-intelligencer &#8211; philly papers are subscription-based]<\/div>\n<p>More than a decade ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaiahzagar.org\/\">Isaiah Zagar<\/a> began transforming a vacant lot next to his art studio from a trash-strewn residence for rats and vagrants into a sculpture garden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting Tuesday with attorneys for Zagar and the property&#8217;s Boston-based owner, someone offered $250,000 to buy the property and leave it as is. The offer, made by a benefactor who wants to remain anonymous, was rejected, Zagar said.<\/p>\n<p>The landowner, Gaston Serge Realty Trust, wants $300,000 for the lot, which it purchased in 1988 for $130,000, according to city records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[links are mine]<\/p>\n<p>but that&#8217;s not the whole story&#8230; the same space was threatened in 1999, too, only back then, the asking price for the property was only $165,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citypaper.net\/articles\/060399\/news.hit.run.sidewalk.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">Sidewalk Sale<\/a> [philadelphia city paper]<\/div>\n<p>Although the double lot has been on the market for many years, the prospect of Fresh Fields opening a store across the street has renewed the interest of speculators who predict this currently sleepy block of South Street will wake up.<\/p>\n<p>(The property is listed for $165,000, says real estate broker Louis Orocofsky. It was sold to an entity called Gaston Serge Realty Trust back in June 1988, according to the property deed at City Hall.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the city is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaiahzagar.org\/news.html\">rallying around the lot<\/a>, this is going to be an interesting battle of wills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia sculpture garden in danger [ap, via seattle post-intelligencer &#8211; philly papers are subscription-based] More than a decade ago, Isaiah Zagar began transforming a vacant lot next to his art studio from a trash-strewn residence for rats and vagrants into a sculpture garden. &#8230; At a meeting Tuesday with attorneys for Zagar and the property&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}