Historic Home Relocation Project featured on Marketplace w/Kai Ryssdal
- Jun 11
- 2 min read
Omgivning's Morgan Sykes Jaybush was featured on American Public Media's (LAist KPCC & KCRW in Los Angeles) Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal got to see a relocated house.
Ryssdal met with Morgan Sykes Jaybush, creative director of Omgivning and director of its Historic House Relocation Project. The two met outside a home built in 1911 that Jaybush and our team moved from Hollywood, where it was slated for demolition, to Altadena, where the home previously on the lot had burned down.
“We would have loved to leave the house where it was, but someone was going to tear it down,” Jaybush said. “There were three big craftsman houses all in a row, and somebody bought all three to build a 150-unit apartment building.” The home agreed to sell the house for $1 since they were planning on tearing it down anyway.
“It’s addressing the fire problem, and it’s also addressing the problem of demolition that we have in the city,” Jaybush said on house relocation. “This is also a way to keep character within our city, keep things out of the landfill, and it could be a more affordable way for people to build.”
We have nearly 200 more families interested in house relocation, and keeping track of other homes slated for demolition across the Los Angeles area.
“I think people are excited about it, “Jaybush said. “It’s for people that miss their old house, that want this old feeling back.”
Excerpts from Marketplace by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban.
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