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I went to the old steel mill site they're turning into condos
I mean, the headline is all 'historic preservation', but walking around you see they're keeping one wall and a smokestack as a 'feature'. The rest is just a normal concrete box. Has anyone else seen a redevelopment project where the 'story' they sell is totally different from the reality on the ground?
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flores.emma6mo ago
Historic preservation" is a real stretch when it's just a wall and a stack. That's not saving history, that's using it as a decoration.
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morganmartinez6mo ago
Even a small piece can hold the whole story of a place.
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fionafoster6mo ago
They kept one wall and called it historic? That's just sad... like putting a single brick on a shelf and saying you saved the whole building. Morganmartinez has a point about small pieces holding a story, but this feels like they're just selling a lie. It's not a story anymore, it's a cheap decoration for a concrete box. Makes you wonder why they even bother.
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shanec613mo ago
Yeah I had a similar thing with an old train station near me. They kept the original sign and ticket booth but tore down everything else to build a bank, and now they call it "honoring the past." It felt more like they just wanted the tax break or the marketing angle than actually keeping the place real. Did you get any sense of what the steel mill actually meant to people before they boxed it in?
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