86-year-old Edith Macefield’s 108-year-old house was appraised at $8,000, and the land it sits on at $120,000. She was offered $1 million for the house, but refused to sell. So a five-story business development is going up around her.

"I don't want to move. I don't need the money. Money doesn't mean anything," she said last week.

Macefield is not the only holdout; Mike’s Chili Parlor on the corner is also staying put as the building goes up in Seattle. Link -via Metafilter