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In 2006, Edith Macefield drew national media coverage when
she refused a $1 million offer for her 1,000-square-foot house.
The investment company that made the offer eventually developed
a 131,000-square-foot retail and office center around the home.
Macefield died in 2008 and willed her house to a construction
superintendent she had befriended. The house was sold the
following year.
Newspaper website Seattlepi.com reported on Monday Paul Thomas,
the house's broker, said a woman who purchased the home and
planned to open a coffee-and-pie store with her teenage daughter
there had backed out.
Thomas told local media that bringing the house to code would be
too expensive.
"It has become apparent that the age and condition of the house
make it cost-prohibitive for anyone to use the house in its
current location," Thomas said, according to Seattlepi.com.
He said the home would either be donated, preferably to a
non-profit, or destroyed and the land would be sold.
If a recipient able to move the house within 90 days is not
found, the website said, it could face demolition.
In 2009, publicists for the "Up" movie tied a cluster of
balloons to the little two-story bungalow to market the Disney-Pixar
film about a curmudgeonly old man who refuses to sell his home
and flies off in the house tied to balloons.
The movie made more than $700 million at worldwide box offices
and won an Oscar for the best animated movie in 2010.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Ryan
Woo)
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