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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5314
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 4:35 pm: |    |
I'm surprised I don't remember this, but when were two of the six towers of the Brewster-Douglass dismantled? The fairly recent google maps aerials show the six, but I have pictures showing only four remaining towers, and I can't for the life of me remember when two of them were brought down. It appears it was the two in the southwest part of the site nearest the Fisher. |
Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5315
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 7:48 pm: | |
BTW, I'm talking specifically about the 6-tower, high-rise Frederick Douglass Homes/Projects/Apartments. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 472
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 - 7:07 pm: | |
bump |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5115
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 1:09 am: | |
The day the music died.
jjaba. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 5703
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 12:56 pm: | |
Gentrification did it. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5116
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 1:45 pm: | |
We have moved away from "slums with central heating" in this country in favor of scattered site public housing projects. There is no political will to support these projects. The Jeffries Projects on the Westside are long gone as family housing too. Pruitt-Igo in St. Louis was imploded and projects in Chicago are being demolished faster than a speeding freight train.
jjaba, former Public Housing Commissioner. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 5704
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 2:57 pm: | |
Jjaba's right.
The Jeffrey projects on the Lodge and MLK Blvd. has been tranformed into to " nouveau riche" single family homes for the middle class. I don't see no low-income folks moving back over there unless they have $200,000 and a $10,000 down payment with a high salary based job.
Meanwhile the Brewster Projects in Brush Park is a next target to demolished however the Douglass projects will not be torn down.
Next it would be the po-folk community on the Lodge FWY. and on the corner of MLK Blvd. and Third St. |
Milwaukee
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Username: Milwaukee
Post Number: 1114
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 4:56 pm: | |
The housing projects are a joke, building small single family homes is a much better idea. People and families feel at home and have pride in a property. What are they supposed to feel when they live in a giant soviet style warehouse. |
Focusonthed
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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 894
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 6:06 pm: | |
There is an abundance of housing/land in Detroit. Tear them down. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5123
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 6:27 pm: | |
Scattered site housing also means rental vouchers to be used on the open market. This way, poor people are spread all over the community. That's the theory. Ofcourse, landlord discretion is always there. (emphasis landLORD.)
jjaba. |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2507
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 9:31 pm: | |
The two towers were knocked down early in 2003. This picture is dated 2/26/03.
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Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5327
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 10:28 pm: | |
Thanks, Ndavies, for answering my question. BTW, where'd you find the picture, or is it your own? |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2510
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 10:46 pm: | |
I shot all the pictures I post. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5128
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 12:31 am: | |
Is your photo Jeffries or Brewster-Douglass? Looks like some nice investment in wrought iron fencing.
jjaba. |
Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5328
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 12:43 am: | |
Considering it was in response to my questions about the two Douglass Towers demolished, I'd assume that those are photos of Douglass Towers.
In fact, this is looking north from the Chrysler Freeway Service Drive/Winder, I believe. |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2511
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 9:22 am: | |
The picture is Brewster-Douglass looking north from Winder. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5133
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 4:34 pm: | |
Thanks. jjaba has never been over in that place. It sure looks the same as Jeffries, eh. That's the legacy of the Eastside-Westside fracture in Detroit.
jjaba, Westsider. |
Leland_palmer
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Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 270
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 6:37 pm: | |
Anyone know if they are rehabbing the towers? There is razor wire surrounding two of the towers. |
Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5331
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 9:32 pm: | |
I think I heard that more are being demoed, but I don't remember where I heard it. It could have been a rumor. It would be cool to see the area redeveloped like they've done for Jeffries West (perhaps more urban in design and style).
But, I too, would like to know the fate of Frederick Douglass Towers (Brewster is actually the remaining low-rise portion). |