Milwhcky just keeps on rolling. He won last week’s contest for his fourth win a row. It was the London Zoo in the UK (thanks to wes.in.wa for posting the link). This week’s is a tough one. I may have to throw out a clue a little later today. Good luck!
O’Hare Airport runway expansion site.
This one’s definitely a tough one, so I’ll give a clue. It’s in the same medium-sized city as a state university.
@2 Pullman’s trailerpark district?
It’s probably in a state with a Springfield, too.
It’s some sort of demolition project. Those red things are dumpsters. The buildings being demolished aren’t ordinary houses, they look like barracks or maybe housing project multiplexes.
The long buildings getting removed look like old military housing or barns associated with some sort of livestock. I don’t see sidewalks and roads like they might have been something people lived in.
Aggie type town with no personality: Champaign, Illinois
Hey, I think it’s Bainbridge Island post poop spill–From today’s Seattle Times
By Drew DeSilver
Seattle Times staff reporter
I thought Bainbridge was a “Green” Community.
Looks like they need to maintain their infrastructure better…especially since it is infested with lawyers who a are fullashit.
Bainbridge==Brown Community
Missoula, MT?
No luck yet, though my review hasn’t been comprehensive at all. I’ve wandered through bits and pieces of:
Lexington KY
Knoxville TN
Columbia MO
East Lansing MI
Bloomington IN
New Brunswick NJ
The state universities of ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, PA, WV, and MD are in cities/towns too small or too non-city to be called “medium-sized cities”. The state universities of MN and OH are in big cities.
I haven’t looked at the cities of the state universities of VT, DE, VA, NC, SC, GA, AL (too small?), WI, IA (again, too small?), …
Then again, Lee might be misdirecting us by saying “a” state university. For instance, Penn State has branch campuses in Abington, Altoona, Beaver, Berks, Brandywine, DuBois, Erie, Fayette, Greater Allegheny (McKeesport), Harrisburg, Hazleton, Lehigh Valley, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Schuylkill, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and York. I’d call (at least) Erie, Harrisburg, and Scranton “medium-sized cities”.
And there are, like, a thousand SUNY campuses.
This one is a real beast, indeed, and I’ve been trying out a lot of those same locations, plus others, to no avail. Including a bunch of the SUNY branches!
The site of the past Fireworks Factory fire.
Doesn’t look like demolition, looks more like a disaster of some sorts….fire, wind, tornado, look at the trees, they are pretty beat up.
@9
N,
It’s one of those six. You get partial credit even if someone else posts the link.
I’ve been guessing the destroyed buildings are for critters, maybe “free-range” chickens (something about the small yards all alongside them). Anyway, odd to have such an established old neighborhood butting up against concentrated livestock.
Aerial photos, I’m thinking, would likely be from before they were destroyed.
No time to search for them this week, though.
Lexington, Kentucky Nice job, N in Seattle.
COPYRIGHT 2005 Lexington Herald-Leader
Byline: Sarah Vos
Jan. 21–Jennifer Woolfolk grew up in Bluegrass-Aspendale. She remembers when a now-vacant field was covered with apartment buildings and the city tore down a park because it had become a magnet for gambling and drug dealing.
Now, Lexington’s Housing Authority wants to tear down the 389 apartments left in Kentucky’s oldest public housing project and build single-family homes, townhouses and duplexes in its place. A new elementary school would anchor the 80 acres, and a tree-lined boulevard would connect now-isolated streets to the surrounding neighborhoods.
The agency is asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $20 million to pay for the project. It’s the agency’s third attempt for a Hope VI grant to rebuild Bluegrass-Aspendale.
Woolfolk, 28, a mother of two, lives down the street from the apartment where she grew up. She hopes the Housing Authority gets the grant, and she wants to see the barracks-style apartments disappear.
Wow.
That’s a really sneaky one, because the bird’s eye looks nothing like the aerial photo. In the aerial, those apartments are all still there, looking rather pleasant.
@15
Well done, 2cents! I was wondering if anyone would find it by looking for news clippings of bulldozed projects. Did you find the article first, or the view?
If N in Seattle hadn’t narrowed it down I’d be still searching. I figured it was a decommissioned military site.
I had been to some of the other cities he had mentioned earlier, but I hadn’t checked out Lexington. I found it pretty quickly.
I always wonder about the back story behind some of the unusual views you find. It took me a while, but I found the story behind it.