The Last Stateway Gardens Highrise Demolition, Part 5

[gta4kings1]

seems like a small wreacking ball for a building like that

[artistmac]

@gta4kings1 I suspect they were trying to stretch out the job as long as possible. After this (2007), there were 3 other housing projects in Chicago left to demolish, Cabrini-Green, Ida B. Wells, and Leclaire Courts, and they're all gone now. Well, it was good for the demolition industry in Chicago while it lasted, I guess.

[Mattt8D]

I love the power of human Ingenuity.

[Sodiumreactor]

nice job filming. very nice

[packrat79]

Such a slow, messy, and inefficient way to remove a high-rise building. Implosion would have been a far better option.

[7249xxl]

one word 3 letters T.N.T

[vietman90210]

why not just implode it? the building sits in the middle of a field with nothing close it it

[Olddog231]

Its the trashy people that led to demise of buildings . These low life people didnt appreciate anything they got

[beavisrulesbutthead]

nycha should be next i bet in a few years nyc will be next ..long time over due death to the projects

[Mscubanlink24]

glad to see them gone the where bad i ideas from the beginning

[nochey78]

nah...the idea wasn't bad...it was the land lords and some of the tenants that were bad..

[artistmac]

True. If high-rises were the whole problem, all of North Lake Shore Drive and North Sheridan Road would be a slum.

Chicago's best-kept south side secret is Lake Meadows and Prairie Shores, a dozen high-rises about a mile east of where Stateway Gardens was. 90% black, middle-class, beautifully kept, almost no crime, and has been so for over 50 years. Whatever replaces Stateway, the city should use them as a model.

[nochey78]

absolutely true..the PJ'S were in such bad shape because of neglect pure and simple..

in whatever you build,if you don't maintain it properly,it will deteriorate...thus the downfall of the PJ'S...it didn't help that CHA lost over 80% of their funding when reagan became president..

[ladawnmalloy]

Wow...you guys are so sympathic to those that have lost everything they had or knew.That was so insensitive and immature of u

[garycalgary]

i assume this was government public housing?

loved the smashy smashy video

once i took all summer to watch them demolish 2 seperate buildings in downtown Calgary. It was more fun than a barrell of monkeys. Never did get a job demolishing buildings......

[artistmac]

Yes, these were built by the Chicago Housing Authority back in 1962, and at first they had a mix of working people and those on aid. (You could actually be fined for walking on the grass). In the late '60's, the federal government changed the rent rules, which caused the working people to move out. The projects were never the same after that.

[nochey78]

yeah..and it got even worse in the 80's,with the crack epidemic and CHA losing a large portion of it's funding because of reagan...

[eblostic]

breaks my heart... NOT