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[dubone]

It was a nice hotel at some point.  I realize that CHA has put negative investments into it, either letting it fall in disrepair or turning the interior into a low cost institution.  But it is really a character building that we need interspersed with all the shiny new stuff.  

Forget the crackheads or whatever else negative you associate with a building.  Crackheads can just as easily be in a bucolic suburban cul-de-sac, but people of vision can redevelop old structures like it into the future with adaptive reuse.

[nonillogical]

My old place at Tryon House faced it. I never had any negative feelings towards the place. I think it was housing disabled elderly people as well as homeless women with children at the time but I almost never saw the tenants. I heard that was always a temporary solution though and I always imagined that if renovated into (relatively) low-cost apartments like Tryon House it would easily fill up with the same eclectic mix. I really liked all my neighbors and thought Uptown would be a much more vibrant place with just a few more similar buildings.