Seattle — Time is running short for a group hoping to make the boyhood home of Jimi Hendrix the centerpiece of a community music center.
An over the fence view of the home Jimi Hendrix once lived in Seattle's Central District is shown in this Oct. 31, 2001, file photo. Time is running short for a group hoping to make the home the centerpiece of a community music center.
On Thursday, King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson refused to extend a temporary restraining order that barred the city from demolishing the modest two-bedroom house.
However, Robinson said she thought the effort to preserve the house was worthwhile and gave the owners until Sept. 1 to seek emergency relief from the state Court of Appeals.
Four years ago, the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation, led by Peter Sikov, paid more than $30,000 to buy the house where the late guitar legend lived during 1953-56, move it to a city-owned lot and lease the site as temporary storage.
Sikov and others in the foundation say city officials have repeatedly broken promises to work with them on plans to renovate the house for use in a community center.
City officials say Sikov and the foundation have missed every deadline to either move the house or submit development plans for the project.
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