BuildingScape: What’s Wrong with this Site
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker DeVille
It is beyond me why the old General Seafood restaurant site has sat unused and un-reopened since it was burned out in an arson fire some years back. In its heyday, the seafood lunch and dinner spot on Leon Sullivan Way at Lee Street was always hopping. You had to get there at a certain time to get a seat for lunch. And that was before the Clay Center opened. One would think — despite its many own problems in revitalizing that corner of Charleston — the Clay Center’s hulking presence nearby would be yet another reason to re-open a restaurant here. Why is this building dead in the water still?
January 27th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I noticed the Gen. Seafood blgd was being taken down this week.
January 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Yes, I photographed too soon. I walked by Thursday night and the roof was half-crushed in and a bulldozer ready to chew through the rest of the building shortly. Is this part of the plans for the proposed new downtown library, which seems millions of dollars away? Or will some dismal parking lot now appear here?
Walker DeVille
February 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
[…] A couple weeks back, I posted a photo lamenting the sorry state of the old General Seafood building along Leon Sullivan Way, wondering why no one had renovated the building after an arson fire more than five years ago. Well, someone had plans for the space. A couple days later, bulldozers flattened the site of so many fine Yugoslavian fish stews of years past. Now, only empty space remains. Please, Odin, no — not another parking lot in downtown Charleston?! […]