Another day, another handful of vacant lots by the wayside in Point Breeze. This time, we found two new homes at 2313 and 2315 Ellsworth St., both of which were formerly vacant lots. Remember, we last visited this block over the summer, covering a few other homes under construction closer to 24th Street. Developers To The Sky LLC bought the aforementioned pair last year, and they're now building single family homes here. They also bought the adjacent vacant lot, 2311 Ellsworth St., and will soon be building a third single family home there to join the two we see today. 

Two new homes have been framed

Directly behind this project there's another development that's finally moving forward. In September, we told you about plans for fourteen new homes on the 2300 block of Alter Street, and noted that an old warehouse was getting demolished. Checking back today, we see the warehouse is gone and a new hole has appeared on the block. At the bottom of the hole, we spotted footers for the first three homes in the development.

Warehouse is gone, new hole in the ground. Note the new homes in the background.

Unfortunately, as we previously mentioned, these new homes will be treated to views of a brand new storage facility. Remember United Storall Center is building a sixty-foot-tall storage center on the industrially zoned vacant lot at 2300 Washington Avenue.

Future storage facility across the street

So for those keeping track at home, that's three homes on Ellsworth, fourteen homes on Alter, and a giant storage facility on Washington Avenue. Unfortunately, the seventeen bits of good news don't exactly cancel out the bad news of this storage facility. But hey, the parcel is zoned for industrial use, so it's a by-right build and there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Remapping (which seems to be moving more slowly than expected) would solve this problem moving forward, but sadly it's too late here.