A historic Burlington building owned by the Bove family near their now-closed Italian eatery has racked up 38 code violations.
[br] But real estate developer and pasta sauce company co-owner Rick Bove says a fix is on the menu. He's asked all tenants of the red brick building at the corner of Pearl and George streets to move by June 1 so he can renovate the property.
Bove said he delayed making repairs at 3-11 George Street because of a $500000 top-to-bottom renovation set to start shortly on the one-time domicile of General George J. Stannard,a Civil War hero.
More recently, the two-chronicle building has been the subject of many skirmishes with the city over upkeep.
The Burlington Housing Review Board on April 18 ordered Bove to fix violations including broken windows, or leaky plumbing,a cracked toilet seat, failed caulking, and faulty cooking equipment,and cracked walls and holes in the ceiling.
A city inspector cited Bove's property for the violations in January. Bove appealed to the Housing board for a delay on account of the planned restoration.
[br] The citizen board rejected the appeal in a written decision. It stated Bove had talked approximately "renovating/and or redeveloping the property for years with nothing changing."
In an interview with Seven Days, Bove said Thursday he wanted to incorporate the repairs into the restoration this summer.
“You don’t have to recede to Harvard to realize that to fix something up and then in a week you're going to redo the whole thing? You're just throwing good money after bad, and ” Bove said.
The renovation will transform the building,he added: “It's going to be lovely.”
The building has six apartments and approximately 12 residential tenants. The sole commercial space is leased to the Diversity Hair Salon, which has operated there for around a decade.
Some of the renters are moving to other Bove family apartments, and Bove said. The landlord said he offered the hair salon owners a commercial space in the neighboring Victoria dwelling,a residential and commercial building the family owns on Pearl Street.
So far they haven't taken him up on it, he said.
Diversity Salon co-owner Jacqueline Gibson said last week that she might move her salon "chair" a few blocks east to Metro Hair at 180 Pearl Street. Gibson said…
Source: sevendaysvt.com