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Quite a few neighborhoods are built on or being built on them. The two that come to mind in recent years are the new Hudson Yards neighborhood in NYC (being bui
by Zach_the_Lizard 10y ago
Quite a few neighborhoods are built on or being built on them. The two that come to mind in recent years are the new Hudson Yards neighborhood in NYC (being built on the West Side Yard) and Potomac Yards (built where those rail yards were) in Alexandria, VA right outside DC.
A number of Manhattan neighborhoods are built on former rail yards. On mobile but I believe there is even a wikipedia page on it.
If the demand is high enough developers would love to clean it up. SF prices are at that level.
- inferiorhuman 10y agoThe developers do want to clean it up and build housing. The city (and residents) of Brisbane are the objectors. In this case I think the planned development would roughly double the population of Brisbane. It's understandable that they would object, but less sympathetic given how absurdly low density Brisbane is.