Towering above a dancing crab.
I saw this item on the local tv news. The Wisconsin avenue tower in Tenleytown is going to come down. The city (Washington DC) is paying $350,000 to make this happen. The Washington Post calls it a "281-foot steel eyesore."
Steel 'Monstrosity' In Tenleytown To Be Dismantled Further they have: " a trial lawyer who lives a half-mile from the site, described the tower as "overpowering and menacing" and said it seemed out of place in a neighborhood of low-rise buildings, restaurants and two public schools." One of these would be my nieces school. I had mentioned this tower in a post last summer Imminent Domain . I was using it as an example (examples - they exist in greater and lesser degrees of tangentality). I had been talking about eminent domain takings. Eminent domain takings more or less by definition involve the government seeking to take over property where they feel some improvement can be made. Where the government, or someone can put the property to higher social purpose. There is no exact line here between blighted property and property you just want to do something else with, say for the greater tax revenue involved. It also can be understood, and accepted, that a under-stated bid on property owned by low income individuals will affect them in greater proportion than a low bid for high income individuals and their property. In that unlikely event that would ever happen. Not all 'takings' are equal. Further such projects are often circumscribed in their geographic extension, and in their completion serve to devalue the remainder of the neighborhood. With no local renaissance involved (someday I will put together a Google Earth tour of all the places I've lived in...). In some areas these towers go up and in some, they stop going up and come back down. Look out below!
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