Trash Me

On my way to breakfast this morning at the sublime Honey's Sit-and-Eat Restaurant in Northern Liberties, where real estate speculators are salivating at the prospect of new profits, I came across a very odd lot.
Or maybe not so odd.
It's on the corner of Reno and 4th. Behind a chain link fence - sinking into the weeds, is a junker. A very old, very abandoned junker. The earth seems to be reclaiming it. A second car - on slightly higher ground, is also planted in this yard.
How and why can this be? In one of the neighborhoods where the young, hip and many not so young, but hip-ly profit-motivated are making their homes and/or investments?