Inspired in part by this thread

 

All of these, except one, are from the "Innerwest" area of Dayton.  A gallery of urban abandonment.

 

 

...originally a Lutheran church:

 

 

 

 

...tree-lined Broadway.  Much of this street is abandoned:

 

 

 

 

 

...not sure what is happening with the greenish-yellow one.  Either its being renvoated or the renovation has stopped and its now vacant"

 

 

..elsewhere in the Innerwest area:

 

 

 

 

 

...industrial abandonment:

 

 

...this one has already been torn torn down:

 

...the fate of inner Dayton:

 

 

...areas that have been mostly torn down and are returning to nature/open space, with a one or two abandoned buildings still left

 

 

 

...this house is occupied, but surrouned by open space; from urban neighborhood density to "country farmhouse":

 

 

....End State; returning back to nature:

 

 

....Deciduous Temperate Woodland Savanna ecosystem:

 

 

....Wetland Ecosystem:

 

 

....Picturesque tree-lined country lane:

 

 

 

so i take it that the church doesn't have very tall ladders?

 

they need that white chocolate messiah to the south to reach up and paint the tower

It's frustrating to see urban real estate going to waste while builders create more rural sprawl.

if ohio ever gets some major influx of immigrants there are post industrial era fixer upper homes waiting for them.

my favorite abandoned house is this inner-city estate

 

 

 

 

:cry:

For the Jerry Springer end-of-show homily:

 

examples of urban regeneration in the same InnerWest neighborhood...

 

 

 

Such desolation.  Looks like some parts of Detroit.

wow - how sad, I had no idea..  "omega man" stuff.  why doesn't "San Mar Gal" move in up there?

 

thx Jeff

Who is "San Mar Gal"?

 

 

Very disappointing to see that.  I thought that much abandonment happened only in the biggest cities.  The house you added(as your favorite) is such a wasted opportunity.  Sad to see, but thanks for the pics Jeff.  :-(

Who is "San Mar Gal"?

 

San Mar Gale is a proposed (huge) housing development in the Oregonia area:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6716.0

Generally, it's not that surprising as most areas near a downtown area can be quite bombed out (Cass Park, Detroit; Midtown/Payne-Sterling in Cleveland; West End in Cincinnati; downtown in downtown Columbus; etc).  If anything, I'd be more shocked if this was in, say, the cities far east side.

Usually that correlating with a traditional minority area, gone to shambles due to "wonderful" urban planning/transportation planning.

I guess one could see what is happening in Dayton as peicemeal urban renewal, one house or structure at a time, rather than the wholesale clearances of neighborhoods that one saw with the 1950s/1960s urban renewal programs (like the one that replaced Cincinnati's West End with Queensgate, or what Dayton tried did with the Haymarket area).

 

The end result may look like an "old school urban renewal" wholesale clearance, yet I think it is more likely just to see a decreased density in existing neighborhoods as houses come down.

 

Then there is also this small scale and not-well-reported replacement going on with new housing.  This pix is an example, of a board-up (which would be a "priority 2 tear-down"), next to a brand-new house.   

 

 

And, if you look closely, one can see a brand-new house immediatly to the right of this apartment building.

 

 

Also, one can also point out renovations in this area...obvious cases of new siding and windows and roofs.

 

I know that there is that vacant property land bank being proposed by MVRPC, but if there is a market for this land...someone is putting up new houses in the heart of the city, and someone is buying them...maybe this trend should be encouraged somehow, rather than letting property lie fallow.

 

Or, after tearing down a board-up, sell the vacant lots cheap (maybe a "dollar-lot" program like that old dollar house program) to people who live next door to the lot, as a way for them to increase their property holdings...they could have the opportunity to build a new  house on the lot, sell the lot, or keep it as maybe a garden area for a big vegtable garden or something.

 

I don't know..I'm just some shmuck with a camera,  not a planner or urban policy wonk.  It does seem, though, there are opportunities here to make lemonade out of real estate lemons.                     

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or, after tearing down a board-up, sell the vacant lots cheap (maybe a "dollar-lot" program like that old dollar house program) to people who live next door to the lot, as a way for them to increase their property holdings...they could have the opportunity to build a new  house on the lot, sell the lot, or keep it as maybe a garden area for a big vegtable garden or something.

 

I've always wanted the "inner-west" neighborhoods to turn into a park, something like the Heidelberg (sp?) in Detroit.  The ruins of the westside, but a tour of it, thus making it somewhat interesting besides a Church's, Broaster Hut, and Shaleek's Barbershop.

Glad somebody caught it :D

I need to do a before and after of this thread to show the vacant lots (or replacement construction) that replaced the buildings in the pix.