Crocker Style?

sharon kinsella · Post by **sharon kinsella** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:28 pm

Have any of you seen the new development that runs between W. 73rd and W. 65th by the Lake front?

My daughter took me down there to see it. It's really nice.

Here the thing though. The problem with urban gentrification (I'm sure there's a new term for it now) has always been that it pushes low cost housing out of the area, forcing low income families out of their homes and struggling to find low cost housing.

While these projects address one of the aspects of urban decay, it doesn't do anything to address the issues causing it. That's always been a concern for me.

dl meckes · Post by **dl meckes** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:35 pm

Sharon, I'm assuming you refer to the brown field reclamation, Battery Park?

sharon kinsella · Post by **sharon kinsella** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:17 pm

Yep - they got special funds for that didn't they?

stephen davis · Post by **stephen davis** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:39 pm

sharon kinsella wrote:...it pushes low cost housing out of the area, forcing low income families out of their homes and struggling to find low cost housing.

Where do they go?

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sharon kinsella · Post by **sharon kinsella** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:03 pm

Homeless shelters - doubling up with family. It's a problem.

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:14 am

stephen davis wrote:
sharon kinsella wrote:...it pushes low cost housing out of the area, forcing low income families out of their homes and struggling to find low cost housing.

Where do they go?

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Steve

They go where ever bankers and developers need them to go next. It is all about the churn and the over act of using race, religion and economics to create the churn they need to survive. Buy low sell high.

It is not a simple matter of happenstance, that the city tears down projects to replace them with people that can afford the buyer's economy.

Look at Euclid Corridor, tear up the street long enough to put the small owners out of business. Buy it if for pennies and resell to corporate America.

FWIW

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Michael Fleenor · Post by **Michael Fleenor** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:20 pm

Jim:

The nice development is called Arbor Park Village. It was a Hope VI Project. Hope VI started with HUD under the Clinton Administration and replaces the worst public housing complexes with more mixed-income developments that blend in better with the community. It is my understanding that a lot of the former tenants of the Longwood Estates, the public housing complex that was torn down, now live in Arbor Park Village.

BTW, Arbor Park Village was designed by City Architecture, who have designed some of the Rockport Square units and who are designing The Cliffs. Many of the single family homes in that area were developed by Rysar in conjunction with Forest City Land Group.

stephen davis · Post by **stephen davis** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:35 pm

Michael Fleenor wrote:BTW, Arbor Park Village was designed by City Architecture, who have designed some of the Rockport Square units and who are designing The Cliffs. Many of the single family homes in that area were developed by Rysar in conjunction with Forest City Land Group.

Not surprising. We immediately noticed the similarities.

Thanks.

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