How Much Is that View Worth?

Here’s a bit of rumor and speculation for you.  MC Construction built Hawthorne Hill Condos on McKinley Hill overlooking the city.  The views are quite nice and the building looks decent.  If you don’t know which one it is, look up to Stanley & Seaforts, then look to the left.  It’s the new condo project just to the left of the bridge. 

According to one of our intrepid tipsters, it appears that Mike Cohen of MC Construction owns the small house in front of the condos.  He also owns the home behind the condos.  According to the govme.com website, MC Construction had the city vacate the street on the view side of the condos and he kept a large chunk of the Hawthorne Hill parking lot in his name.  Now we hear that Mr. Cohen has said that he is going to build about four units in front of Hawthorne Hill where the small house now is.  To us, this sounds like the current views may be going away – at least for those lower floors.  Hmm…  We’ll see I guess.