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New Orleans has/had 2 high rise project buildings and 1 still stands. But I don't know if that is what you are looking for because they were each one single building that were apart of low rise developments and I think they only housed the elderly.
Also I think Oakland, California has (or had) some high rise projects.
So St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and New York City had or still have high rise projects?
Detroit has several high rises still standing. However, 4 of them are due for demolition this year after being vacant for quite a long time. There's no immediate plans for redevelopment.
These towers were converted to senior housing apartments around 2008-2009.
At Detroit's peak, there were a total of 18 high rise towers. Not sure how many units there was, but they were 14 floors tall and estimated to hold up to 10,000 residents.
How accepted by the community is the Jordan Downs project?
I know that in Boyle Heights there is a plan to convert the Wyvernwood Projects into a mixed-income mixed-use urban village. It is highly contentious among current residents and has seen a lot of opposition.
It looks like a nice redevelopment to me, and from what I have heard the Wyvernwood projects have been terribly neglected by the current ownership (residents say they neglect the buildings because they plan to demolish them anyways) and are not exactly a wonderful place to live. Current residents get a discount and first priority when the project is finished, but we all know how promises like that usually turn out. I really like the plan to bring some more traditional urbanism to Boyle Heights but I am not a resident of the area so go figure.
It would turn 1200 units into 4,400 residential units plus 30k square feet of office and retail to the area. I wonder what residents of Boyle Heights that do not currently live in Wyvernwood think about the plan.
I only know what I've read and I don't think that the Jordan Downs redevelopment has anywhere near the opposition that Wyvernwood has (which is not projects btw). They just discovered that the Jordan Downs property is contaminated, so I don't know what happens with that. Right now they say that they will clean it and go forward, but when maybe they reconsider due to cost.
The proposal for Wyvernwood is considerable more dense than Jordan Downs. It's NYC density. It's 4,400 units on 0.1 square miles. Given that this is a family neighborhood it's going to be at least 8,800 residents. That's over 80,000 people per square mile. And then it has 300,000 square feet of retail. And it doesn't have good transit connections (it's relatively far from the gold line) nor high capacity roads.
Jordan Downs' is less than half the number of units as Wyvernwood on twice as much land. So it's fairly normal LA density.
I only know what I've read and I don't think that the Jordan Downs redevelopment has anywhere near the opposition that Wyvernwood has (which is not projects btw). They just discovered that the Jordan Downs property is contaminated, so I don't know what happens with that. Right now they say that they will clean it and go forward, but when maybe they reconsider due to cost.
The proposal for Wyvernwood is considerable more dense than Jordan Downs. It's NYC density. It's 4,400 units on 0.1 square miles. Given that this is a family neighborhood it's going to be at least 8,800 residents. That's over 80,000 people per square mile. And then it has 300,000 square feet of retail. And it doesn't have good transit connections (it's relatively far from the gold line) nor high capacity roads.
Jordan Downs' is less than half the number of units as Wyvernwood on twice as much land. So it's fairly normal LA density.
Oh yeah I guess it's not, it's privately owned.
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