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re: Plank Road Revitalization Unveiling In-Game Thread (8:30 a.m.)
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:21 am to Boudreaux35
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:21 am to Boudreaux35
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Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:21 am to teke184
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:22 am to Eugene Dogwood
is this gentrification? I need to know if I'm racist for this or not
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:25 am to LaBR4
Is that Rodeo in Los Angeles?
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:42 am to Eugene Dogwood
Just keep throwing money into a lost cause. Makes a lot of sense, considering the inhabitants will simply turn everything nice right back into a pile of shite.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:43 am to Breauxsif
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Just keep throwing money into a lost cause. Makes a lot of sense, considering the inhabitants will simply turn everything nice right back into a pile of shite.
I'd imagine most of the blighted properties on Plank are privately owned. I'm not sure what the government can do about that. Putting a few shrubs in front of them won't really do much.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:45 am to Eugene Dogwood
To borrow an old adage....
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:51 am to teke184
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No fricking luxury hotel is going to move into NBR where they have to gate in the parking lots and use razor wire to discourage break ins, regardless of the amount of government handouts given toward that end.
Just a little bit of an exaggerating I don't give a shite about hotels or plank road but the airport Hilton is nice and doesn't require any of that
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:52 am to member12
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Is that Rodeo in Los Angeles?
Yeah
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:52 am to Mahootney
Plank road has reasons why it’s in bad shape:
High crime
Poverty
Blight
Outdated commercial buildings likely outfitted without up to code electrical/plumbing systems and probably filled with asbestos
Bad public schools (same as the rest of the city)
Smell from exxon
What it has going for it:
Excellent road infrastructure
Sidewalks
Convenient location near good paying blue and white collar jobs
Cheap real estate
Relatively good drainage
If you fix the crime, the rest will fix itself. Crime is the reason the neighborhood declined. Make it safe, and it will become a thriving blue-collar neighborhood of plant baws again.
Another big boost would be to end the state’s obsurd inventory tax with resulted in so many mothballed warehouses all over nbr. That would generate dozens, if not hundreds of jobs in the neighborhood while making it much more enticing for outside investment due to its proximity to rail, highway, and blue water port infrastructure
High crime
Poverty
Blight
Outdated commercial buildings likely outfitted without up to code electrical/plumbing systems and probably filled with asbestos
Bad public schools (same as the rest of the city)
Smell from exxon
What it has going for it:
Excellent road infrastructure
Sidewalks
Convenient location near good paying blue and white collar jobs
Cheap real estate
Relatively good drainage
If you fix the crime, the rest will fix itself. Crime is the reason the neighborhood declined. Make it safe, and it will become a thriving blue-collar neighborhood of plant baws again.
Another big boost would be to end the state’s obsurd inventory tax with resulted in so many mothballed warehouses all over nbr. That would generate dozens, if not hundreds of jobs in the neighborhood while making it much more enticing for outside investment due to its proximity to rail, highway, and blue water port infrastructure
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:53 am to Eugene Dogwood
Residents of an area seek to improve their community. SWB: sue them.
Residents of an area dgaf about their community. SWB: revitalization project!
got it
Residents of an area dgaf about their community. SWB: revitalization project!
got it
Posted on 11/5/19 at 9:57 am to SG_Geaux
quote:I've been working off Plank since the early 90's. You're absolutely correct. At least once a week I will be behind somebody at a redlight. They'll open their door, look behind to make sure someone is watching then throw out trash like McDonalds bags, dirty diapers, etc. It's not that they just don't care, they take pride in trashing where they live. It's mind boggling.
Only the people living there can make it not a shite hole and they just don't care.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:02 am to LaBR4
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quote:
Is that Rodeo in Los Angeles?
Yeah
It's racist if we can't do that with Plank Road.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:08 am to kingbob
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If you fix the crime, the rest will fix itself.
If you fix the crime, BR would fix itself. frick just Plank Rd.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:08 am to Bedhog
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I've been working off Plank since the early 90's
I worked part time for several years at the Turner equipment yard right off of Plank while I was in college. We'd regularly have to patch bullet holes in the shop roof
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:15 am to Boudreaux35
All one has to do to fix the crime is actually lock up the criminals, and it starts with actually investigating and prosecuting property crime. BRPD basically DGAF about theft, and it leads to those thieves eventually getting away with murder. Lock people up for robbery and they won’t get a chance to get promoted to murder.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:18 am to kingbob
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Lock people up for robbery and they won’t get a chance to get promoted to murder.
Celebratory gunfire from good report cards at the local high schools
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:23 am to kingbob
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All one has to do to fix the crime is actually lock up the criminals, and it starts with actually investigating and prosecuting property crime. BRPD basically DGAF about theft, and it leads to those thieves eventually getting away with murder. Lock people up for robbery and they won’t get a chance to get promoted to murder.
Part of the problem with the activist culture like Gary Chambers is they want the investment dollars from business and government to fix the problem with crime and education. That model has never worked as far as I know. Fix the Crime and education first then business will invest.
He often complains about grocery stores not being in North Baton Rouge. Grocery stores didn't move because they were thriving and making money. They moved because their risk management cut into profits and stores became unsustainable.
Gentrification isn't the answer either. Crime is like trying to kill an ant hill. You put the poison out and it just moves the ants to your neighbors yard.
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:24 am to LSUTigerFan247
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What about focussing on the children and school system?
They've been "doing" that for 50 years. EBRP schools are in the bottom 10 worst in the state and the state is in the bottom 5 worst in the country.
Hey, why don't we legalize a lottery and gambling and earmark that for Education?
Posted on 11/5/19 at 10:52 am to Drew Brews
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Residents of an area seek to improve their community. SWB: sue them.
Residents of an area dgaf about their community. SWB: revitalization project!
fricking nailed it.
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