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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It may not be as bad as the auto salvage but it looks as bad as the EV did. The EV had some parking lots and cheap buildings. The WV area has car dealerships and storage lots that are a mess, the planetarium is abandoned (or looks that way), and the bus depot is a big old block of bricks. Mewata and the millenium park are interesting, I guess. And the contamination makes any development a non-starter unless a government agency steps in.
I get the "no tax dollars" argument, but I also get the development counterargument.
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West Village mostly looks like a generic suburban highway commercial area - car dealerships and an office building.
East Village was a truly blighted wasteland. Like East Cleveland, or something. Not comparable in my opinion.
I do believe it is absolutely important to eventually redevelop West Village, but it certainly has far less urgency than East Village did and there is only so much capital and (similar) market demand to go around.