The southeast corner of Brush Park-- what became Brewster-Douglas Homes [[housing project) began unraveling with the rollout of urban renewal in the Roosevelt administration, prior to WWII. This was one of the first if not the first federally funded urban renewal projects. The neighborhood in that area was obliterated and replaced with apartment blocks. Then those were replaced with something taller, and then the Brewster high rises, even taller. And now destruction. Should have left well enough alone… but to quote Mayor Cobo [[who was in office later, overseeing such things as "slum clearance" for highway development: this is the "price of progress."
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