Comments on: Redeveloping Kennedy Place

By: Disgusted

Disgusted — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:14:08 +0000

Is there any way we can stop them from redeveloping this? Most of the neighborhood burglaries, car break-ins are carried out by the residents of this place… I am good with living together but not when idiots run around and try and break into their own neighbor’s houses!!

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:50:13 +0000

I was going to buy one of the Towers over at Urban Lofts. I think the sales people need to be informed about whats going on here. They told me that these were going to be demolished and then new Townhomes were going to be replacing them.

Makes no sense, i thought they were trying to build up the area. Why keep GA housing in an area they are trying to bring up?

By: RWB

RWB — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:06:46 +0000

Please stop talking about healthcare. You will only start an argument with those that disagree with you and that would be simultaneously bitterly contentious and really really boring.

By: CK

CK — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:56:53 +0000

The devil is truly in the details, (which is why the administration has been trying to shove their takeover of the private health care system down everyone’s throats before anyone had a chance to actually examine the ugly details) there is money to be made from one or another federal program by demolishing the existing units and replacing them with the same, only newer with government funding. Never underestimate the money to be made off of taxpayer funded programs at the expense of the underprivileged.

By: kjb434

kjb434 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:45:16 +0000

Bernard,

It’s really easy to explain why this waste is occurring. It’s the federal government. Common sense hasn’t stepped into the D.C. Beltway in a long time.

And to think, some people want these same guys to be running our healthcare?

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:02 +0000

I drove by this place today after typing my initial comment. Turns out there are quite a few buses routes that run on Jensen Drive that aren’t all that far from this site.

That being said, tearing this place down still seems like an extreme waste of money.

If HHA owns this site, they should sell it to an investor. They can lease back the units for the residents via Section 8 (or whatever they call it now). They can use the proceeds to build more units elsewhere, even across the street. There’s plenty of land avaialble. Why on Earth would they want to squander such a valuable asset?

Why tear down 60 public housing units just to build 88 new units on the same site?

It makes no sense. <——-This is coming from a commercial real estate pro with over $1 Billion of closed multi-family deals under his belt.

By: GoogleMaster

GoogleMaster — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:41:07 +0000

I’m wondering why Steven bought a house across from “a dump” in a neighborhood where there are no amenities such as grocery stores and drugstores, and why he’s complaining about the possibility of public housing being built on top of a site that is already public housing?

By: movocelot

movocelot — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:53:46 +0000

I think it’s just plain RESPONSIBLE to be sure public housing & public transit are linked.
Some northern, rust-belt cities have areas where every grocery and pharmacy has closed. Residents eat only at fast food places and loiter/pass out on street corners to receive medical attention; they’re trapped in their neighborhoods.
We shouldn’t think that the same sort of dire, economic turn-down won’t ever hit Energy City. But plan for it and it probably won’t.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:24:54 +0000

Oh, my bad in which case, sorry Steven. You’re probably right. I shall now go and hide in a corner somewhere and feel foolish.

By: RWB

RWB — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:07:52 +0000

I interpreted Steven Nichols’ comment as saying that there wasn’t much consumer-oriented commercial development nearby. There is plenty of industrial stuff near there. But I think it is pretty deficient in terms of supermarkets, clothing stores, etc.

That said, poor neighborhoods everywhere often lack variety and quality when it comes to shops in the immediate area. Which is one more reason why it sucks to be poor.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:53:42 +0000

“Why build public housing in an area that doesn’t even have any commercial development…?”

Did you choose your home’s location because of its proximity to commercial development? Are you assuming that the less well off are somehow not intelligent or able enough to be able to commute to work the same as everyone else?

By: Steven Nichols

Steven Nichols — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:38:48 +0000

I really wish they would just tear them down and sell the property to one of the willing developers scoping that area. That’s how Urban Lofts made it sound when we bought one of their units that borders this dump. Why build public housing in an area that doesn’t even have any commercial development…?