Eastern Hills - stunning! (Newark: apartment, homes, neighborhood)

[Exult.Q36]

The key to getting crime down in that area is to revitalize Woodhaven. The city should go in and gut those apts in Woodhaven and replace them with urban village style development and town homes.

[ChristieP]

Again, as I said earlier, its going to take a lot of muscle to get rid of the bad elements in those areas. Woodhaven and Poly both didn't get that way overnight, and they won't change overnight, either.

[loves2read]

those apts might be eyesores and crime-magnets but they bring in lot of money to people who own them...
making them bring them up to code with stiff inspections and persistent oversight would help but lot of them are people who get rent assistance from city and those people are money makers lots of times to owners...
not every owner certainly--my sister doesn't always like taking those renters in San Antonio
but some people don't care about the state of the property and just let it run down...as long as they get monthly checks...

[naterator]

Drove through again for fun...what a gorgeous, idyllic neighborhood. So many mid-century masterpieces...even if you wouldn't live there, it would be worth the drive simply for an architectural visual buffet.

[Eric S]

Originally Posted by naterator

Drove through again for fun...what a gorgeous, idyllic neighborhood. So many mid-century masterpieces...even if you wouldn't live there, it would be worth the drive simply for an architectural visual buffet.

OK. I'll take a drive through there this weekend. It must be breathtaking!

-Old Man Simpson

[loves2read]

@Eric S--what is going on with the corner of Central and Cheek Sparger--
saw they had graded off the lot across from Primrose (no trees left at all)
that can't all be for the round-about they are bent on putting in there....
is someone doing a commercial strip or some town homes like was previously considered?

I am glad we sold after seeing that construction...

[Eric S]

Originally Posted by loves2read

@Eric S--what is going on with the corner of Central and Cheek Sparger--
saw they had graded off the lot across from Primrose (no trees left at all)
that can't all be for the round-about they are bent on putting in there....
is someone doing a commercial strip or some town homes like was previously considered?

I am glad we sold after seeing that construction...

Loves2read, I am fairly certain that the folks who developed our small subdivision purchased those lots for another small community like ours. I think that the idea is the same: fairly large homes on quarter-acre lots. I'm not 100% sure, but that is what I have heard from sources who should know what's going on.

We shall see.

-Old Man Simpson

[naterator]

Awesome threadjack!

[Eric S]

Originally Posted by naterator

Awesome threadjack!

OK, I've finally had a chance to drive through and snoop around the neighborhood in question. I've got to say that it really doesn't look all that great to me. Lots of long and low ranch homes with two and three-car car ports, some messy lawns, lots of trees, and a couple of interesting homes/properties. It is a little like the Interlochen neighborhood in Arlington, but a little (a lot, really) more run down. I took a drive through Interlochen right after to make the comparison and the Arlington neighborhood is much much nicer. I guess Eastern Hills has potential, but it appears really rough around the edges, so to speak.

My lousy $0.02. You know what they say about opinions, of course .

-Old Man Simpson

[Cranfords]

Circa 1990, Eastern Hills was one of the last nice neighborhoods in East Fort Worth. Its decline since that time is sad and unfortunate for all of Fort Worth.

Woodhaven's decline was the result of simply building too many apartments for the area to sustain. Move-in specials and cut-rate rents for brand-new apartments had become the norm for the area by 1985. The upwardly-mobile young adults originally attracted to the area were gone by 1990. Today, it's unlikely that even a Joplin-scale tornado could provide enough of a reset for this area to reinvigorate itself.

Fort Worth leadership learned nothing from this and so this cycle continues to be repeated in all areas of the city. When it's all said and done, most of Fort Worth will be one big bad area - devoid of retail, plagued by crime, and unable to maintain the tax base necessary to sustain itself. And the non-local rent-seeking sociopaths who were allowed to cause this will have taken the money and moved on to pillage other areas.