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Photos: Deniece Williams' Plastic-Wrapped Mansion
The gospel singer's unfinished creation has sparked headlines of late.
Gospel singer Deniece Williams’ half-built home in Cherry Hill’s high-end Voken Tract has been garnering plenty of headlines of late—but for all the wrong reasons.
The half-finished, 19,580-square-foot monster of a home sits unfinished behind chain-link fence along Winding Drive, and to make matters worse, it looks as though a giant went overboard with plastic wrap on the place.
Neighbors have called the plastic-wrapped home an eyesore, telling the Courier-Post they wished the place would burn to the ground.
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It’s sat covered in the plastic—now shredding and spreading bits to neighboring yards and an empty lot next door—for at least the last three years, neighbors said.
Williams has a building permit valid through next year at the site—though good luck figuring that out from a construction sign posted on the chain-link fence that surrounds the half-built home, which has been bleached by the sun and weather since work ceased several years ago.
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Property records show the half-built home is now assessed at just shy of a million dollars—Williams bought the property in 2002 and demolished a 50-year-old home to make way for the new place.
Here’s a look at the home as it stands now.
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