Drove Down Hal Greer...

[Herdstruck]

Saw the next set of housing projects being boarded up...looks like they're ready to be torn down.

Thank God.

I hear a grocery store is going to be in that area's place when it's all said and done?
If so, ugh!
They should build a small shopping center and make the most out of the property, build up, and put apartments on the 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th floors on top of the building...I'm sure it would look great.

Hopefully this also means the drug dealing meth heads go elsewhere...like...to another state hopefully.

With the old Stadium Bookstore building coming down as well, Huntington is going to look just a little bit better come fall for the semester.

 

[Herd Fever]

Black people don't sell meth. Crack, pills, heroin yea maybe but I've never known black drug dealers selling meth.

 

[Herdstruck]

I didn't say black people did??

That whole area is bad for Meth, heroin, pills, etc...everything.

All of it needs to go.

 

[Marine03]

So only black people live in the projects fever?

 

[IslandHerd1]

Black people don't sell meth. Crack, pills, heroin yea maybe but I've never known black drug dealers selling meth.

Fever that was actually really funny, and all of my black friends always say, black people don't sell meth and don't do mass shootings........I can agree on the meth but had to remind them of the DC snipers

 

[IslandHerd1]

So only black people live in the projects fever?

Being from Huntington, it is and always has been well known that most of the black population in the city of H'ton lived on 16th street and the area near Lincoln, just how it seemingly has been for a long time. Now that has changed increasingly in the last 5+ years. That entire area SHOULD be boosted by more than a grocery store.

Herdstruck is absolutely right about building up, they should do 4 or 5 story buildings with mixed use zoning. 1st and 2nd floors commercial and the top 2 or 3 floors apartments/condos. Those folks unfortunately having to be dependent on the projects and assisted living would then have a new job market within WALKING distance. Most poor areas are subject to the lack of jobs, and why not get the most out of that land.

 

[The Real SamC]

This is not a black and white issue.

Yes, they are tearing down these projects. And building new projects. And? And, the same people, people that simply refuse to work, will be put back in those places. And in five or ten years, the places will just as bad as what is being torn down. Because the problem is not the buildings, but rather the content of the character of people who, born in a nation so wonderful that people with no right to be here, no language skills, and a marginal education, can sneak into it and do fine, refuse to work.

As to this grocery store, this is just the latest give away program. There is this myth of "food insecurity" and "hunger" in the US. In reality, of course, the government gives away more food than anyone might need. And, this is evidenced by the fact that a lifewelfarist has six times the chance of being morbidly obese than being 15 pounds underweight.

Now, logic and common sense would say that all is well. But liberals have come up with this "food desert" deal where the poor little lifewelfarist doesn't have access to good food and this has to spend her food stamps on Twinkees and Hershey bars. So they are going to (at your expense) pay huge corporations to run grocery stores at a cash basis loss in these non-existent "deserts".

What to fix the problem? Tear down the projects and replace them with


NOTHING AT ALL.

 

[BT4373]

Fever that was actually really funny, and all of my black friends always say, black people don't sell meth and don't do mass shootings........I can agree on the meth but had to remind them of the DC snipers

They are just not very good at it. EXP. The two in Texas last week.

 

[Herdstruck]

There is both a good and bad set of realities for Huntington.

The bad...

Sam C is right that there will always be housing projects which will always make the city more prone to crime. However...the location is key. Put all the crime in one concentrated area...leave the majority of campus and downtown safe.
This is why there are 'problem areas' in major cities...because crime never actually goes away. Rather, it disperses into areas. This is a sad reality all cities face, including Huntington.
I have always said to look at El Paso Texas as a model for being safer. One of the safest cities in America and less than 10 miles away is one of the most dangerous in Juarez Mexico.

Now the good...

Building new buildings as well as properly maintaining a particular client list...like students...low income families couldnt afford to live in a nicer building...maintained and upkept...will deter petty crime as well as disturbances. If Huntington can maintain this with good leadership and no slumlords...it can be done and crime will lessen to a more manageable state.

I have nore to say but I'm at 21 Frederick and my food is here.