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Originally Posted by AOA21
As someone who lives down south I actually enjoyed watching those industrial structures taken down along Ashland, they really did gave the area a more dirty look and that was something I heard a lot from family and friends coming down south to visit me. The south side, in general, has a lot of these industrial-looking areas that I wish I saw less of. I'm hoping for more development in the south side in the future like those cool ones happening along Milwaukee and the West Loop but knowing Chicago, it's still a long way from happening.  |
True, they were dirty but they have been left to rot. Fulton Market industrial buildings were dirty 3 years ago but now they look new again.
it's very short-sighted to knock any of these down. It'd be one thing if they were replaced with good urban development, but unfortunately all we're going to get is
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