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The first two homes east of Grand on Hartford are targeted for demolition to add 20 parking spaces to the surface lot behind the Bread Company. Frank and Rosemary Tomiser have lived in the house next door to the proposed demolition for 37 years.

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The vast, desolate expanse of asphalt behind Commerce Bank sits directly across Hartford from the proposed demolitions.

This is not the first time Tim Boyle of City Property Company has sought to raze historic architecture to create a surface parking lot despite neighborhood opposition. Last October, he tore down the home at 3617 Hartford practically overnight without a single public meeting. An entire page devoted to that demolition can be found here.

Mr. Boyle also owns the "three stooges" on the 3500 block of Juniata (vacant since 1998 when he bought them), the Anderson building at 2337 S. Grand, and 3139 S. Grand (where the Dickmann Bakery used to be). All of these buildings are in a sad state of boarded-up disrepair.

On Sat., April 7 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, residents opposed to the demolition of 3539 and 3541 Hartford picketed in front of the Saint Louis Bread Co. on South Grand to protest the Bread Company's support of the demolition and to raise awareness about the issue. The Suburban Journals (front page) and channels 2 (lead story), 5 (lead story), and 11 covered the rally.