Posted on 03/24/2017 2:38:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Got $1.5 million to spare? If so, tiny Reduction, a one-time company town built to house workers at a long-vanished garbage-processing plant in western Pennsylvania, could be yours for the asking.
The aptly named town is home to 60 residents, down from 400 in its heyday. They live in 19 tidy brick houses, paying the Stawovy family, proprietors of the unincorporated village for the past 70 years. The asking price includes a one-room schoolhouse that was long ago converted into a duplex residence.
The plant, built by American Reduction Co on a wide bend of the Youghiogheny River, shut down in 1936 after processing waste from the city of Pittsburgh since the early 20th century.
Workers would render animal carcasses, and separate metal from household waste for resale.
“This was the original recycling plant,” said David Stawovy, 67, who owns Reduction with his three siblings.
In 1948, David's father, John, owned an adjoining farm and was thinking about buying one of the larger homes in Reduction for his growing family. At one time, he would have had 28 from which to choose.
"My mother and dad wanted their own place," David Stawovy said, "and the man said: 'Why don’t you buy them all?'”
The senior Stawovy ended up doing just that, paying $10,000 for the place, lock, stock and barrel. It was a decision he never regretted, or at least never admitted regretting, his son said.
“He never complained. He made a living on it,” said the younger Stawovy.
All that is left of the processing plant is the foundation, Stawovy said. Once the town dump contained a treasure trove of collectible bottles, but it was wiped clean years ago.
Stawovy said his advancing age and the nursing home care his parents needed before their recent deaths led the family to put Reduction up for sale. He needs to sell so his siblings can cash out their shares of the inheritance.
“We’d like to travel,” he said. “We don’t need the aggravation.”
Time travelling portals and smoke monsters included?
So 20 houses in the middle of no where PA for $1.5 million?
They are worth maybe $30k each...
I’m surprised some ‘compassionate’ Leftist group hasn’t already bought it, kicked everyone out and filled it up with illegal invaders!
Oops! I guess I just gave them an idea...
Price reduced?
Yep based on the rough estimate you noted, they’re asking way too much.
Why not sell the houses individually, as opposed to selling everything to one buyer, or seeking just 1 buyer? I don’t get why they think just one buyer can be found for an unexceptionable group of houses........
Price needs further Reduction
How many acres? Does it include river frontage?
So 20 houses in the middle of no where PA for $1.5 million?
They are worth maybe $30k each...
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Especially after the seller admits it’s aggravating.
The houses don't have enough windows which is a plus for maintenance but a minus for natural ventilation and seeing outside in two directions.
...m surprised some ‘compassionate’ Leftist group hasn’t already bought it,...
Or, Hamas.
Owning your own town might have benefits be the mayor/ police chief if you are your own police dept.
Buy full auto I can think of all kinds of good things one could do.
75 acres. The RR tracks run along the river so there’s not much value for riverfront lots.
About 15 or 20 miles SE of Pittsburgh.
Does it include minerals? Does it include toxic waste? The subdivisions across the river don’t look that bad. It doesn’t help that the railroad cuts the property off from the water.
But the possibilities are endless on what to do. You could easily have businesses come there to work, build some stores (that people outside the 60 would come), perhaps an amusement park, build a barn with horses and give riding lessons (again to people outside the 60. I think it is a decent deal. Yes the houses are probably 30 grand a piece but the land is priceless really.
A good business to put there would be one of those “Fat Camps” (Reduction).
correct … at most $30,000 each. I’d bet the owner would sell for $200,000.
That’s just about what I was thinking that either Soros or the Saudis would by it to fill with caliphate settlers/invaders.
I meant “buy it” not “by it” sometimes I type too fast and forget to check for errors. I guess that is why there is a preview button. :)
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