^There were a lot of pictures of a neighborhood that was torn down here on UO back when it was happening.

Springfield's hospital was the site of old brownfield industrial buildings. They were obsolete and not serving a practical use anymore. Tearing them down brought jobs and people closer to the center of town.

 

Not to get too far off track from this thread topic, but google streetview captured this neighborhood in Springfield in 2007 and you can take a virtual tour of it. Block after block after block of historic homes and the street grid they occupied were completely obliterated for a hospital and associated surface parking 4x larger than the building itself. Absolutely disgusting

 

before https://goo.gl/maps/qZjttkhsurz, after https://goo.gl/maps/4Ezy8ZTKSGF2

before https://goo.gl/maps/12R1uFvWGGq, after https://goo.gl/maps/pKSZSvZfWhk

before https://goo.gl/maps/yvdz2siQNtH2, after https://goo.gl/maps/vxf8ns6BXEn

Springfield's hospital was the site of old brownfield industrial buildings. They were obsolete and not serving a practical use anymore. Tearing them down brought jobs and people closer to the center of town.

 

Not to get too far off track from this thread topic, but google streetview captured this neighborhood in Springfield in 2007 and you can take a virtual tour of it. Block after block after block of historic homes and the street grid they occupied were completely obliterated for a hospital and associated surface parking 4x larger than the building itself. Absolutely disgusting

 

before https://goo.gl/maps/qZjttkhsurz, after https://goo.gl/maps/4Ezy8ZTKSGF2

before https://goo.gl/maps/12R1uFvWGGq, after https://goo.gl/maps/pKSZSvZfWhk

before https://goo.gl/maps/yvdz2siQNtH2, after https://goo.gl/maps/vxf8ns6BXEn

Maybe they deliberately curved the street so they could take possession of the properties by eminent domain? In other words, they obliterated the street grid as a tool to demolish the homes. If true, that's some old school "urban renewal" shit.

Springfield's hospital was the site of old brownfield industrial buildings. They were obsolete and not serving a practical use anymore. Tearing them down brought jobs and people closer to the center of town.

 

Not to get too far off track from this thread topic, but google streetview captured this neighborhood in Springfield in 2007 and you can take a virtual tour of it. Block after block after block of historic homes and the street grid they occupied were completely obliterated for a hospital and associated surface parking 4x larger than the building itself. Absolutely disgusting

 

before https://goo.gl/maps/qZjttkhsurz, after https://goo.gl/maps/4Ezy8ZTKSGF2

before https://goo.gl/maps/12R1uFvWGGq, after https://goo.gl/maps/pKSZSvZfWhk

before https://goo.gl/maps/yvdz2siQNtH2, after https://goo.gl/maps/vxf8ns6BXEn

 

Whole scale demolition of historic neighborhoods for GIANT surface parking like this should be criminal.

Oh my.  Seeing all of those ornate houses fenced off is just sickening.

The tower crane is up and foundation work has begun. 

Crane operator suffers serious injury:

 https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/cincinnati-fire-department-members-working-to-rescue-construction-worker-from-280-foot-crane

These photos were from early April, right before the crane incident. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks ago what I suspected to be a dog park was being graded across from the new hospital tower on the north side of the relocated Erkenbrecher Ave.  No - it turns out it's a fitness trail with chin-up bars and dip bars. 

 

So pretty soon we'll have fitness-oriented employees crossing the street to burn a few calories while the others stand outside the loading dock smoking and playing on their phones. 

 

I'll try to get a photo. 

On-duty jobs make people want to smoke.

23 hours ago, GCrites said:

On-duty jobs make people want to smoke.

 

I was taking photos of the exterior of the Cleveland Clinic around 2010 and I spied a doctor, in his white coat, nervously smoking a cigarette in an abandoned lot nearby.  This was during the summer and and the weedy bushes were so high that he was like an animal hiding in the African bush.  It made me think that taking photos of health care workers smoking outside their respective facilities in their obvious medical attire would be one helluva photo show.  But it was going to require using long telephoto lenses and a lot of time waiting for the test subjects to appear, two things I didn't have.   Like weeks of roaming around the Midwest taking these photos. 

It would be a lot harder to do that today since so many healthcare systems totally ban nicotine.