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Originally Posted by MultiModal
I live very close to here and it really does not upset me. That building has been empty since around 2007 and has been deteriorating ever since. Also, this stretch is somewhat sleepy and the blank brick wall along state wasn't very inviting. I welcome more units and hope their is at least some retail that activates the corner.
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because something is in a deteriorated condition dosent mean it cant be restored or re purposed (and lets not forget that MANY landowners conveniently let their properties fall into disrepair or dont keep up with maintenance in a deliberate effort to undermine any effort to save them, and to shape the perception that you hold 10 years later. why are they not held accountable…if its condition was so bad, wheres was the city to hold their feet to the fire all these years? or is it that are they just as complicit in wanting these sorts of buildings to be demolished and are in the back pocket of the developers)
As a perfect example of how these buildings can be saved, take a look at Alliance Française de Chicago (810 N Dearborn). If you look at photos from when the property was acquired decades ago (i wish i had some handy), it looked like a bomb had hit it. like, actual rubble. FAR worse condition than the houses in question here. Theyve done a masterful job of bringing the historic elements back to life, while also integrating modern spaces throughout the interior. Its now one of the most attractive string of rowhouses on the entire near north side, but it certainitly wasnt always that way and it could just as easily have been demolished. Saying "it cant be done" is a lazy cop out made by someone who never had any interest in saving it in the first place.
because there is a blank wall along the street means we need to demolish the historic buildings it surrounds? talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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