Refusing a request to buy $ 1 million, the old woman forced the shopping center to build a “curvy” around her house.
In 1952, Ms. Edith Macefield bought a small house in Seattle, USA, for only about 4000 USD (more than 91 million VND). She calls her home Whitewood Cottage, but many consider it to be the embodiment of the flying house in UP, the once-popular animated film by Pixar and Disney.
Just like Carl Fredricksen in the film, who was determined to keep the house simple in a society where high-rises are mushrooming, Edith once turned down an offer of $1 million. (more than 22 billion VND) for his home to build a trade center in 2006. As a result, the shopping center is still built as planned, up to 5 floors high with a full range of modern services. , but had to “wind” around her tiny 1050 square feet (more than 97 m2) house.
Edith’s small, simple house is nestled in the middle of a modern 5-storey shopping center.
According to the Seattle Times, Edith lived in the house with her mother when she was a manager at a Spic ‘N Span Cleaners store in Seattle. Although this house was quite small, with 1 floor and 1 loft, not too high value at the time, but Ms. Edith refused to buy real estate investors five times seven times. .
Initially, they asked for 750,000 USD (more than 17 billion VND), then gradually increased to 1 million USD. But all they got in return was a shake of the head from an 84-year-old grandmother. Most of her life she was attached to this house, her mother also died here. That is probably one of the biggest reasons why Ms. Edith turned down such tempting offers. With no other choice, the investors only had to edit the design drawings and finally build a shopping center around her house, as we can see in the photo above.
Edith’s steadfastness led developers to redesign their shopping center.
However, the steadfastness of Ms. Edith, although making it difficult for the project to build a shopping center, did not make the investor too uncomfortable or angry. Barry Martin, the project manager, even became her close friend. They were so close that when she died of cancer in 2008, Mrs. Edith decided to hand over her house to her friend without hesitation.
Edith Macefield with her vast collection of tapes and records.
In return, Mr. Barry also respected this decision, and still preserved her house to this day, not selling it to another investor, or demolishing it to build the rest of the mall. as originally planned. On the Fox news program Strange Inheritance, he wittily shared that:Many people think that Ms. Edith was vehemently opposed to the shopping center project, but that is not the case. She’s just afraid to move house“.
According to SeattleTimes
at Blogtuan.info – Source: genk.vn – Read the original article here
