If You Don’t Build It, They Won’t Come: Development & Gary’s Stadium
NWITimes’ Keith Benman recently wrote two articles highlighting the failure of the US Steel Steel Yard, Gary’s minor league baseball
Read MorePublic art, small-town challenges, and big questions
Gary’s Miller Beach Arts and Creative District hosted a street fair in June centered around several graffiti art mural completed
Read MoreJuly in Gary!
St. Louis preservationist and director of the Preservation Research Office consulting firm Michael Allen visited Gary yesterday to see the
Read MoreGYY and Chicago’s Mythical “Third” Airport
Few weeks go by without discussion of the fabled “third airport” of the Chicago metropolitan area. The collective pet project
Read MoreCreative or Consumer Class? On inequality in urban growth
The media may thankfully be catching up with the dark economic underbelly of the mythos of urban prosperity, perhaps evidenced through
Read MoreMy delay in posting anything
I promise, promise, promise I’m going to be better about posting. I’m recovering from our trip to the Lake County
Read MoreThe End of Sprawl?
I’m used to seeing demolitions in the inner city, whether of historic housing or, occasionally, of newer homes that were
Read MorePlanned Demolition in La Porte
The NWI Times reports that a historic church in La Porte, Indiana is going to be demolished sometime this month.
Read MoreFear and Self-Loathing in the American Rust Belt
Rust Wire’s Angie Schmitt wrote an article yesterday about the problematic language of “Rust Belt chic,” a term that has
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