{"id":171,"date":"2006-01-25T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/25\/one-invested-in-the-cuckoos-nest\/"},"modified":"2006-01-25T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T20:21:16","slug":"one-invested-in-the-cuckoos-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/25\/one-invested-in-the-cuckoos-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"One Invested in the Cuckoo’s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Grand Prize of Business 2.0’s List of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business of 2006<\/a> went to Avalon Communities<\/a> for their plan to convert the shuttered Danvers State Hospital<\/a> (where they perfected the pre-frontal lobotomy) into luxury condominiums.  According to one webite<\/a>, it has these nicknames:<\/p>\n

The Castle on the Hill. The Palace on the Hill. The Haunted Castle. The Witches’ Castle. The Kirkbride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This place is so spooky, it was the set of a psychological thriller<\/a>, where an asbestos abatement crew is terrorized at the abandoned hospital.<\/p>\n

This does not appear to be an isolated case.  According to the Times <\/span>developers are crazy about old asylums<\/a>. 
\nPerhaps, I should reserve making my judgments on such projects. 
\nAs the article points out, one such development in the Bay Area, Rivermark Village<\/a>, is an experiment in new urbanism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Julie Liedtke, who bought a three-bedroom home in the Rivermark
\ndevelopment for $653,000 in 2002, was not bothered that the home was
\nbuilt on the grounds of a former mental hospital. She was lured by the
\nconcept of an urban village where she could walk to the bank or an
\nItalian restaurant for a creamy garlic chicken pizza, her favorite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

**<\/p>\n

Bonus: Here’s<\/a> a new urban (not new urbanism) idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grand Prize of Business 2.0’s List of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business of 2006 went to Avalon Communities for their plan to convert the shuttered Danvers State Hospital (where they perfected the pre-frontal lobotomy) into luxury condominiums.  According to one webite, it has these nicknames: The Castle on the Hill. The Palace on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}