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Originally Posted by Darude_Sandstorm
The old vs historic bit is rather pedantic and misses the point. I'm hurt by perhaps most of the demolitions in Chicago, but I looked at the buildings that will be demolished here and they don't do enough for me to miss them at all.
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There have been some demolitions that hurt, but there's also a lot that are completely forgettable. A lot more probably than people even realize. Doing the map that I do for new construction permits has made me realize this. Houses like
this are a dime a dozen in the midwest. And to be completely honest, I think
what replaced it looks a bit better.
At the end of the day though, some of these get torn down because the buildings are in pretty bad shape to begin with which costs more to fix than to just tear it down and building something new. That needs to be taken into account. Buildings are old and when you don't take care of a lot of old buildings, they are going to deteriorate into a mess. I'm not saying all of them are like this but I think that people just assume all these buildings are in amazing shape and are simple to fix.