The Hill District’s most expensive townhomes have yet to find a buyer five months after they went up for sale and despite recent price cuts.
The six modern townhomes on a quiet stretch of Rose Street were built by developer Steffan Johnson – who saw them as a personal response to the difficulty he experienced while shopping for urban housing desirable to upwardly mobile Black professionals when he and his family moved here in 2009 from Minneapolis.
“I wanted to show what’s possible for this side of the city by bringing modern architecture and high-end finishes – almost custom homes – to a part of the Hill that is long overdue,” he said…