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Holly Street neighborhood should not have bitched about Power Plant if they wanted ridiculously cheap lakeside property.
Shocking that lakeside property is increasing value. Shocking.

It's disturbing how easily you two gloss over the racial component of this, and the way the majority of white, so-called urbanism proponents will come to the defense of east-side developments regardless of their community impact.

Low-income Blacks and Hispanics are being pushed out to the suburbs, where high gas prices will disproportionately affect them, and the dime a dozen urbanist's solution is to build developments in their backyard which are a.) less affordable & b.) rarely marketed to the existing population.

@ Tim
I don't know how long you've been here, but the closure of the plant was a victory against the Environment Racism that put it the there in the first place. Of course, after the community finally achieved some justice, market forces (i.e. white demand), realize what a waste lakefront property is undeveloped, and swoop in for correction.

And yes, it's still a race issue when the white, middle-class community neglects to acknowledge how they benefit from white privilege.