State to transfer Telephone Hill to City and Borough of Juneau for redevelopment

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State to transfer Telephone Hill to City and Borough of Juneau for redevelopment
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Residents of Juneau's Telephone Hill have long lived with rumblings that their neighborhood might get redeveloped. 'It’s a great place,' Maureen Conerton says. 'And everybody, you know, we get along. It’s a real neighborhood.”

Some of the first permanent homes in Juneau were built in the 1880s on what was known as Courthouse Hill, and later Telephone Hill, after a phone company set up shop there in the early 1900s.

Telephone Hill is a rocky ridge that juts out toward Gastineau Channel in downtown Juneau. The massive State Office Building straddles it. The Telephone Hill name stuckConerton said she’s lived on Telephone Hill since 1989, calling it “the last little piece of old-time, rural Juneau” in the downtown area. She reminisced about epic, Alaska Folk Festival afterparties that the neighborhood used to host.

Conerton and her neighbors don’t own their homes; the state does. Back in 1984, the state spent $4.6 million purchasing them. Some of them were just taken through a process known as eminent domain. The city pitched in $2 million.

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