General Phoenix Metro Discussion Thread

[downtownphxguy12]

couple thoughts:

Most growing cities tear down their old neighborhoods to make way for downtown buildings. like, every city. Paris tore down blocks of their midievel buildings in the 1850s. new york tore down all their gilded age mansions. The reason you see cute old downtowns in europe and in us cities (newport rhode island, astoria oregon) is because they were economically depressed and weren't growing(not because of some altruistic sentiment)

one tiny old house in the middle of a super block doesn't add much to the downtown. move it to one of the many vacant lots in garfield. the house was move once already.

not a fan of eminent domain. but this seems like a reasonable use for it in this case.

the news makes it seem like asu is kicking out a 89 year old from his home. its a rental property.

he bought all these properties years ago and doesn't fix them up. i stopped counting at 10 on the assessors page. they are all pretty run down. he's so concerned about historic homes he should sell them and let some family buy them and fix them up. i have an old girlfiend that lived in one of his home in willo neigbhood. all the neighbor homes were fixed up. her's look like a crappy rental.