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Why is the most valuable realestate at LSU a ghetto dump?

Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:02 pm
Posted by R11
Member since Aug 2017
4943 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:02 pm
South tiger land

Just drove around and looked .
Wow

I’m not the smartest guy I the world but this place
Looks like a gold mine with some
Bulldozers and trackhoes and new construction
What a shame
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128595 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:03 pm to
Guaranteed section 8 income slumlord apartments can also be gold mines

This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 7:04 pm
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
168258 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:03 pm to
quote:

I’m not the smartest guy I the world


Fair enough
Posted by TDFreak
Coast to Coast - L.A. to Chicago
Member since Dec 2009
8831 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:04 pm to
8 time national champions baw
Posted by Gulf Coast Tiger
Ms Gulf Coast
Member since Jan 2004
20377 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:05 pm to
It could definitely be so much better than what it is
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8451 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:05 pm to
College students rent around there?
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52854 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:08 pm to
When I was a student, I lived in Tigerland. There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating Totinos pizzas and living in $350/mo apartments.

Tigerland was 95% college kids at the time. I think TOPS changed a lot of that. Demand for slummy apartments dropped, they turned Section 8 and here we are.

Someone needs to buy them all and bulldoze them.
Posted by vl100butch
Ridgeland, MS
Member since Sep 2005
36589 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:11 pm to
Tigerland in the mid 70’s was the place to live
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
5995 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:12 pm to
Why?

It would be racist to bulldoze every thing there.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52854 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:14 pm to
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Tigerland in the mid 70’s was the place to live

I was there in the mid to late 90s and it was fine. Maybe towards the end you could see the writing on the wall. Tiger Plaza was well above my budget
Posted by MardiGrasCajun
Dirty Coast, MS
Member since Sep 2005
5893 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:18 pm to
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There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating hog head cheese and living in $350/mo apartments.


FIFY
Posted by RichJ
The Land of the CoonAss
Member since Nov 2016
4921 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:19 pm to
40yrs ago I lived on Brightside. Not sure I’d drive down that way without a fully armed HMMWV nowadays…
This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 7:46 pm
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52854 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:29 pm to
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College students rent around there?

It's right next to where LSU is considering building a new basketball arena. It's walkable from campus, and historically a student area that went ghetto, and it's bad ghetto, like regular murders and shootings ghetto.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
78677 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:31 pm to
quote:

When I was a student, I lived in Tigerland. There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating Totinos pizzas and living in $350/mo apartments.

Tigerland was 95% college kids at the time. I think TOPS changed a lot of that. Demand for slummy apartments dropped, they turned Section 8 and here we are.

Someone needs to buy them all and bulldoze them.


The apartments also got old and run down and students moved to the newer ones.

Gardere had the same fate.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
132926 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:36 pm to
quote:

There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating American Market Poboys with a drink and a bag of Zapp's Spicy Crawgators and living in $350/mo apartments.
Posted by DiamondDog
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2019
12661 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:39 pm to
quote:

American Market Poboys


Overrated.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52854 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:40 pm to
quote:

The apartments also got old and run down and students moved to the newer ones.

I think the ones I lived in were built in the 60s and this was in 96-99. It wasn't ghetto yet though, but definitely rundown. We had potholes in the parking lot you could get stuck in

You could see it starting to change by 99, but I do think TOPS had something to do with that. People all of the sudden had more money for housing when they were spending less on tuition.

Maybe LSU can buy it if they build the new arena there? It will be called racist if they do though.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
5995 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:42 pm to
quote:

The apartments also got old and run down and students moved to the newer ones. Gardere had the same fate.


Wrong. Savings and Loan collapse caused Tigerland and Gardere to go Sec 8. The apartments were sold for pennies on the dollar and the buyers made them Sec 8. They stole them and it was more profitable to let them go ghetto.
Posted by Ash Williams
South of i-10
Member since May 2009
18532 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:42 pm to
quote:

Tigerland was 95% college kids at the time. I think TOPS changed a lot of that


TOPS and immediately available government student loans to anyone who requests it.

Which is also why college tuition has been increasing so much over the past 25 years.
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
15848 posts
Posted on 6/28/25 at 9:00 pm to
quote:

When I was a student, I lived in Tigerland. There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating poboys from Old Man Duple’s “Pumpin’ Station” and living in $350/mo apartments.


Gardere was the shiny new neighborhood but didn’t last long. I knew a guy who came from Arizona for grad school. He rented a place sight unseen on Gardere. He drove up to the apartment complex in his U-Haul and kept driving.
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