Yesterday we walked to town (and back) for dinner, and discovered that the Sunnyside deconstruction is now going full scale.

For those not familiar with Morgantown, Sunnyside is an older residential area that transitioned to student housing years ago.

Any by transitioned to student housing, I mean, turned into an utter slum.

Houses were divided into multiple apartments (in the cheapest manner possible), yards were turned into trash heaps, and the whole place looked like hell.

Which is really too bad, because many of those houses were almost certainly gorgeous at one point. Unfortunately, they’d been neglected to the point of no return, and there was no saving them. So whole swaths of Sunnyside are now being knocked down to create a new apartment / shopping center complex.

What I’d LIKE to see from this is a revitalization of the remaining houses–that they be bought up and returned to single-family homes, but I think that’s blindly optimistic, so I’ll just have to hope that maybe the remaining landlords will clean up their properties.

I’m not holding my breath.

(If you click through to Flickr, there are several more pictures; all pictures were taken with my cell phone. These was unexpected, so I didn’t have my camera.)

Addendum the First:
I won’t be walking back down in the next couple days to see any changes because 1) the weather sucks and 2) I have conjunctivitis, so I’m staying home to put drops in my eyes every three damned hours.

But after that, I’ll be avidly watching the changes.