Envy Apartment

April 06, 1998 | By Larry Carson | Larry Carson,SUN STAFF Dundalk residents who last month rejected a government-aided plan to renovate the Hidden Cove Apartments over fears it would cater to the poor hold out hope that a new buyer will appear and convert the 32-year-old complex into elderly housing or condominiums. But neither is likely, say a variety of county officials and real estate experts , who predict more slow decline for the unprofitable 30- acre waterfront complex in West Inverness , a densely populated community of about 2,000 brick townhouses. The $ 9 million sale price , combined with the multimillion-dollar cost to renovate or demolish the 504-unit, three- story brick complex , makes any purchase or extensive redevelopment problematic without government aid , county officials and real estate experts say. "The numbers won't crunch" for a conventionally financed deal , said county Councilman Louis L. DePazzo, a Dundalk Democrat who supported the plann...

click to enlarge Bridgeview Village apartment complex for several days. - DUSTIN WATERS" /> Dustin Waters Flooding closed off the main entrances to the Bridgeview Village apartment complex for several days. As days of heavy rain swelled the Cooper River, residents of the Bridgeview Village apartment complex were trapped. Even Monday evening, the community’s two main exits on North Romney Street remained impassable for most vehicles. With the help of police, residents of the 300-unit complex say they were able to move the dumpsters blocking a single-lane road that cuts through the woods surrounding the complex. Although it doesn’t have a name, that road now serves as the only way in or out of the neighborhood. But for the first few days, even it was too flooded to use. “They opened that up Sunday. So Friday, Saturday, Sunday — it was three days we were stuck here,” says Charles Smith, age 69, whose apartment looks out onto the knee-deep wat...

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