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Originally Posted by The North One
Wow, that street in Baltimore was significantly downgraded, and for what?
All those townhomes could have been renovated and sold as a packaged neighborhood. But instead, they decide to destroy the whole thing and erect some cheap new-builds in it's place. Do these people think it's the buildings themselves that prevent residents from moving in? When will we realize that blight itself is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problems.
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I'm not sure why there was a tear down. I would guess the interiors of many of those rows had been stripped of copper and probably semi destroyed by neglect and vandalism. Must have been a financial decision.
There are still thousands of empty rows in the city, and I know some rehab and gentrification are helping to keep the old bones alive.