City Crews Tear Down Dilapidated Oakhaven Apartments

Long-vacant Oakhaven apartments to be demolished for redevelopment

The long-vacant Somerset Apartments in the Oakhaven neighborhood is set to be torn down Wednesday morning as the City of Memphis plans to transform it into affordable housing.

City crews tear down dilapidated Oakhaven apartments

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Construction crews on Wednesday began tearing down the vacant and deteriorated Somerset Apartments in the Oakhaven area. The 30-acre property has been uninhabitable for more than a decade. It was turned over to the City of Memphis, but many of the former apartments have been targeted by arsonists. Now it could see new life. Those in the area say the now dilapidated buildings were not always like this. "It was a popular place, a…

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