^^Really amazing transformation for Shanghai! Not so much for Minneapolis, those older buildings were too charming. At least there's potential for great infill.
The domed building in the center is the Bank of Buffalo, built in 1895. The taller building surrounding it is the Chamber of Commerce building.
Buffalo 1980's. Corner of Main st & Seneca St. dia_0059 by Senor Roboto, on Flickr
Main St. & Seneca today.
The Bank of buffalo was demolished in 1989 sometime after the Chamber of Commerce building. Today the site is an empty lot.
Phoenix in 1980 and today...both shot from the airport. I have no idea who took the original photo, as I found it years ago, and I've been through three different computers since then. I took the bottom photo when I was flying to Denver in August, 2010:
So, there once was a beautiful Victorian neighborhood in L.A. called Bunker Hill. Then, in the 60s, they leveled the entire hill and all the buildings and created a high rise district.
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^^Really amazing transformation for Shanghai! Not so much for Minneapolis, those older buildings were too charming. At least there's potential for great infill.
The domed building in the center is the Bank of Buffalo, built in 1895. The taller building surrounding it is the Chamber of Commerce building.
Buffalo 1980's. Corner of Main st & Seneca St. dia_0059 by Senor Roboto, on Flickr
Main St. & Seneca today.
The Bank of buffalo was demolished in 1989 sometime after the Chamber of Commerce building. Today the site is an empty lot.
Okay,now that's just freaking retarded. A grand old building reduced to a blooding lot? I swear, if urban renewal was done another way, the U.S. would have a lot more cities with a cosmopolitan feel now.
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Looking Northwest along Trade Street towards Tryon street in Charlotte, circa 1978. None of these buildings exist today. The tallest seen here, the Independence Building, was the first steel framed skyscraper in the Carolinas when build in 1909.
I posted these a few years ago, but here they are again. Denver again... it's the Central Platte Valley that was historically a train-yard and heavy industrial area dating back to the gold mining era. The whole area has been cleaned up and is now being developed as a new downtown neighborhood that links The Highlands neighborhood across the river to downtown. A more recent aerial would show even more buildings in the empty area created by the environmental cleanup, as an ongoing building boom in the area is continuing to this day. I'm not sure on the date for the first image, but I would guess it is at some point in the 1950s or early 60s based on the partially completed I-25 being built at the top of the picture.
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