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Originally Posted by LemonZinger321
Does anyone know how long these projects usually take to complete?
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A better question would be: "How long does it take for the area to degenerate after the "revitalization" is complete?"- as that is usually what happens when they introduce non-homogenous enclaves into environments which have long been established as a different genre.
Just watch how fast Patchogue will degenerate into a state worse than it had been before they built all of those Queens-style apartments!
Ditto the BS in Wyandanch- it will be just another housing project in a few years.
Just because some utopian dreamer wants to push their urban-style philosophy and build some apartments and retail space, doesn't mean that it will magically transform an area. (And in the rare cases where they do, it often results in other partsd of the towen going further downhill- e.g. as more existing stores sit empty as businesses move into the new digs....)
It's been done. It doesn't work. Communities that really work are built by those who will occupy them, or because there is a demand for them on the free market. When politicians and big developers try and create defacto instant communities, it just doesn't work. The apartments end up going Section 8, and the stores sit empty, or just cause existing stores to sit empty. And since there are few real jobs left on LI (Who in their right mind wants to do business in that over-taxed, over-regulated hell-hole?), whose going to pay higher-than-NYC rents for the same apartment they'd have in Queens, but have to commute 3 hours a day on the LIRR to get to work and back, even if it's across the street from the train station?
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