Though the Graduate Hospital neighborhood around it has changed dramatically over the years, Robert's Twi-Lite Lounge at 20th & Bainbridge has remained more or less the same. The bar doesn't look like much from the outside, but it's a pretty solid neighborhood dive bar. And as far as we know it's finally settled into a mostly peaceful relationship with near neighbors after some friction in the past.
Next door, you can see there's a vacant and blighted building. It's been on the market for a few years and actually almost sold at some point but the sale fell through. About a year ago though, developers bought it for a whopping $270K. Recently, a reader tipped us off that the building will soon be demolished and replaced with a duplex. We have to think, considering the purchase price, these are gonna be condos. It will take a special kind of buyers that want to live right next door to a bar, but we still imagine that they'll turn up.
This is great news, as this building has looked awful for many years. We wonder why it took so long to turn over. It does make us feel like this is a bit of a missed opportunity though, as the bar was up for sale a couple years back and this would have been a great spot for a new building with a double-wide bar with apartments above.