Keep an eye on your house!

As I mentioned in the previous entry, our part of town has become popular as folks have been having to build further out from the city center; we're suddenly close in.  As Paula likes to tell people, she's within two miles of Costco, Target, Trader Joe's, Walmart, Wegman's and REI.
A local developer started it all by taking down the first mall in Raleigh, North Hills Mall as it was catching its last breath.

In its place he put up a 'walking mall' with a fancy hotel and snooty shops and restaurants.  A lot of tall office space and apartments have sprung up around it, and now the area is known as "Midtown." At least for this brief moment it's fashionable.  

More and more of the older houses are being bought up, torn down and replaced with new ones, some approaching the million-dollar mark.  The house to our left, and the two directly across the street have been marked for demolition and replacement.  You could almost feel this little 60-year old house trembling when the excavator was unloaded today.   

Luckily, our house is updated enough that we'll be spared that fate for the time being, and hey, we've still gotta live here.
However, just to make sure no one got the addresses mixed up:

We hope that no one mistakes your house either.

Dave & Paula