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Oh, don't worry, we have some lovely storage facilities here. It's just that there's only so many that you can build. I'm not sure that the city owning a lot o
by matthewdgreen 1y ago
Oh, don't worry, we have some lovely storage facilities here. It's just that there's only so many that you can build.
I'm not sure that the city owning a lot of land is actually a bad thing, compared to the current situation where it just sits there and rots. It's not like Baltimore has the best results doing things, but the alternative is clearly very bad.
- nashashmi 1y agoOther cities have established chartered “development corporations” to utilize underutilized assets and resources like land and make good uses for them. They have been good for low income housing (often at the expense of lower income housing), low rent commercial spaces, low rent industrial spaces, amusement parks, real estate development, etc. But this is gentrification and if you think it is necessary, then very quickly you will realize it is a problem. It homogenizes neighborhoods to support only a certain class of people while destroying other people.
- sroussey 1y agoYes, they make it so difficult to develop that you must sell to the city so their development corporation can hand out contracts to city cronies with kickbacks. Tax dollars at work, lol.