Showing posts with label Mahmoud Khan Slumlord. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mahmoud Khan Slumlord. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

4425 Aldrich Ave. N. Has Been Demolished, It Was Once The "Old Johnson Boarding House" Before Slumlord Mahmoud Khan Got His Hands On It...

Photo from Old North Minneapolis Facebook group, blog post 
by John Hoff

Information I wrote earlier tonight about 4425 Aldrich Ave. N. was out of date even while I was hitting the PUBLISH button. It turns out the house went down today. Complete information was found on Old North Minneapolis Facebook group, which I have joined as of today.

The loss of this house is all the fault of slumlord Mahmoud Khan, who turned it into a run down, overcrowded, unsafe rental.  Occupants barely escaped with their lives during a fire in March of this year. After that, the building sat vacant except, one suspects, for rats and the occasional crackhead trespasser looking for metal.

Today the building met its doom.

According to Old North Minneapolis Facebook group, the building was constructed around 1902s to serve...

Backhoe Of Doom Is Parked In Front Of 4425 Aldrich Ave. N., A Slumlord Mahmoud Khan Rental Where Nine Occupants Were Injured In A Fire...

Contributed photo and/or photo used under First Amendment Fair Comment and
Criticism and/or photo used by permission of moderator of North Talk Facebook
forum, blog post by John Hoff

Jeff Skrenes, who blogs as the Hawthorne Hawkman and started the popular North Talk Facebook forum, pointed me to some information on his forum and urged me to blog it since Jeff (social butterfly that he is) finds himself busy with other obligations.

It would appear a "Backhoe of Doom" is parked in front of 4425 Aldrich Ave. N., a notoriously decrepit eyesore owned by slumlord Mahmoud Khan. The parking of such a backhoe is always a sign of impending demolition, kind of like when a prisoner on death row is moved out of his cell and to the "ready" area, and asked what he'd like for a last meal.

This building was the scene of...