According to a photographer on Reddit, this deserted and razed neighborhood was once slated to be converted into a new runway for Hopkins. Expansion plans, it turns out, were premature.

Back before 9/11, the City wanted to expand the Airport, so they bought all these nearby houses and tore them down with intents to build another runway. After 9/11, with decreasing air travel, the need just wasn’t there so they left it be. No idea what they plan to do with it.

Still creepy.

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This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2011.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

4 replies on “Pic of the Day: A Deserted Neighborhood”

  1. Made all those homeowners leave their neighborhood, friends etc…and there it sits!!! Sad. I knew some people that HAD to move. They did not want to. They lived there for years.
    What a plan Cleveland.

  2. There was no mistakes here. Decisions are made based on the information we have at the time. No one knew that September 11th was going to happen or the housing crisis. If you look at the streets that were not purchased more than half the homes are in foreclosure anyway.
    The real travesty is Burke Lakefront airport losing 1.5 million a year. There is no reason to keep Burke open losing millions while we layoff police and firefighters that we desperately need more of to keep the city safe.They say there are 65000 landings but those are student landings and takeoffs. There are about 6500 real landings. Hardly enough to justify keeping the airport open. We have smaller local non waterside airports for students that can be used. Just so you know. the big jets are out of Hopkins anyway so the really wealthy are not effected. The Federal Reserve does not care about moving money from Hopkins instead of Burke. There is NO reason for Burke not to be changed to a Navy Pier type of facility.

  3. What I find interesting is the utility poles that are still there and I wager a guess still in operation. May as well let the taxpayers pay the light bills for those sodium lamps to illuminate a derelict and deserted street every day 365 days a year.

  4. Tom has the right idea. Burke is a joke. This city wastes an unbelieveable amount of money – a lot of it on its public officials including a do nothing mayor.

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