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Trevor
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« on: January 19, 2015, 06:09:51 AM »
There are a few in my area (and I'm not referring to my undies hanging on the washing line  Buggedout): one of the biggest is this multipurpose mall which was to include a hotel amongst other things:



If we all got together, we could make quite a nice creepy little horror movie in it: Funds dried up, no money to finish it, no money to knock it down.  Buggedout
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 05:18:02 PM »
Boston City Hall our nod to North Korean architecture
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 10:01:19 PM »
East St. Louis.  Just...  The whole place really.  Sad.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2015, 11:58:06 PM »
My town's been in the back pocket of real estate speculators for decades.
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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2015, 12:43:59 AM »
Quote from: lester1/2jr on January 20, 2015, 05:18:02 PM
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That actually looks quite nice.
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2015, 01:32:04 AM »
We don't have too many these days where I live as the city and/or private parties have been good about taking care of or tearing down eyesores.

The one that comes to mind is the former Dubuque Packing Company.  After the plant was shut down in the early 2000s it fell into disrepair because the company that owned the plant didn't want it up and running.   A local developer eventually bought the plant and after the city rezoned the land had the plant razed to make room for a shopping center.  By then the plant was in pretty sorry shape.  The only thing it was used for was police and fire dept drills.  Otherwise it was falling apart right at the front door to the city.



For the most part the former plant site is now an empty field - the proposed shopping center didn't happen.  Even if nothing happens with the site in my lifetime I'm glad the plant is gone.  I think an empty field is better than a bunch of buildings rotting away on our front doorstep.

There's a few buildings in what's called the Historic Millwork District that are being restored right now.  They're doing a pretty good job of taking care of these old eyesores.



I'm glad to see the buildings in the area becoming useful again.  It beats having them fall apart too.
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2015, 04:24:50 AM »
These unfinished bridges in the centre of Cape Town:
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2015, 05:09:15 AM »
Don't have a picture of it on me at the moment but right in the middle of the village where I live and work, they put a recycling centre up. While I think recycling is a good idea it sits in the middle of several housing estates on the main road into town and smells pretty ripe during the summer. Pressure from locals did force the operators to build a high fence around the property to at least make it less visable.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2015, 09:01:35 AM »
Quote from: Trevor on January 21, 2015, 04:24:50 AM
These unfinished bridges in the centre of Cape Town:


Huh...looks like someone in the planning dept. watched the freeway scenes in EARTHQUAKE and said "I just love that aesthetic."
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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2015, 07:59:38 AM »
Where I was born, Monsour Hospital. The brothers who owned and practiced there also mismanaged it and now there it sits. Supposedly it will be raised soon.
Check out this album of pictures. Some are kinda creepy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwmoran/sets/72157631155245478/
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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2015, 08:16:58 AM »
Quote from: Flangepart on January 21, 2015, 09:01:35 AM
Quote from: Trevor on January 21, 2015, 04:24:50 AM
These unfinished bridges in the centre of Cape Town:


Huh...looks like someone in the planning dept. watched the freeway scenes in EARTHQUAKE and said "I just love that aesthetic."

The connecting highways to the right of the picture are lower than those: makes you wonder how they messed up a design like that.  Question
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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2015, 08:18:25 AM »
Quote from: major jay on January 22, 2015, 07:59:38 AM
Where I was born, Monsour Hospital. The brothers who owned and practiced there also mismanaged it and now there it sits. Supposedly it will be raised soon.
Check out this album of pictures. Some are kinda creepy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwmoran/sets/72157631155245478/






Yeesh: now I'm reminded of why I don't like hospitals.  Buggedout Buggedout
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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2015, 09:30:39 AM »
Every strip mall and cookie cutter subdivision there is.  Add to that, every four lane road and every traffic light.

If I had my way, all roads would be 4x4 tracks on their good days.   Wink

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« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2015, 01:19:02 PM »
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn07/iron.cfm

Used to be a quaint 17th century bridge that pretty much made this whole park.

I got washed out in Hurricane Gastone.

There was some talk of fixing it, but instead, they just put a layer of cement on it to keep it from falling the rest of the way down, & left it like that.
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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2015, 06:20:39 PM »
Southeast Portland has some really hideous paint jobs on their houses.  The whole "keep Portland weird" mantra doesn't really jive with me.


The Convention Center towers are pretty strange-lookin' too.
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