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Originally Posted by photoLith
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Are they going to knock down all of that crime riddled 1970s or whatever public housing in the hill and replace it with better public housing?
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I mean, they've been in the process of doing this for decades across the city.
Back in the 1990s and 2000s, they closed Broadhead Manor (Fairywood), St. Clair Village (St. Clair), and most of Arlington Heights without any plans for replacement. This indirectly caused the decline of areas like Sheraden and much of the Southern Hilltop, so the city edged away from that.
They much more successfully converted the public housing in Terrace Village (on the other side of the Hill, towards Oakland) into two major mixed-income housing developments over the last 15 years or so (Oak Hill is still filling in, and
new apartments were built in the last few years). They've been in the process of rebuilding Allegheny Dwellings as well, which is around half done, IIRC.
Bedford Dwellings is one of the last major "traditional projects" left, and is now slated for total replacement with new developments. After it's gone, all that will be left is Northview Heights, and a relatively small project in Homewood that will be directly managed by HCAP (not counting senior housing, which generally isn't problematic to manage).
My understanding of this plan is basically Phase 1 is going to build some new housing in the Lower Hill to move some of the residents of Bedford Dwellings into. Then they'll demolish part of Bedford Dwellings, freeing up land for the later phases of construction.
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Originally Posted by themaguffin
Why can't the 23 story building be residential... assuming they are interested in doing that...?
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Obviously, this would necessitate a new design. It would also likely require new financing. At that point they might as well sell the cleaned, leveled site to another developer.
I do expect it will eventually be used for a residential project. One thing about the idea that's promising is they could break up the megablock again, and re-connect Mulberry Way through the block, allowing for greater neighborhood connectivity. Plus the floor plates for two narrower buildings will be easier to lay out units for.
I'd prefer a tower to be on one of the parcels directly abutting the river. Now that the condo bounding at the corner of Penn and 24th has broken the barrier and full steel-beam/concrete residential construction is apparently viable in the Strip, I hope we start seeing more soon.