Times-Pic highlights David Simon's skepticism about LSU/VA, BioDistrict...but conveniently skims over his harsh comments about the Mayor

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Readers of Inside the Footprint will already be familiar with the Baltimore example that Simon cited and the Times-Pic references in the article, specifically one Baltimore paper's in-depth report that includes the line:

"The nation's largest urban redevelopment, a projected $1.8 billion effort to transform 88 acres of East Baltimore into a world-class biotech park and idyllic urban community, lies derailed amid vacant lots, boarded houses and unfulfilled dreams a decade after it began,"

It Could Happen Here - The East Baltimore Example

After displacing 600 people, razing a neighborhood, and sitting in limbo for ten years, "The New East Baltimore," a biotech park in Maryland, has failed.  Questions swirling around the proposed development have now led to investigative hearings.

The many parallels to the LSU/VA hospital complex - and the 1,500-acre BioDistrict New Orleans that engulfs the complex - are troubling. 

Here's some audio on the big failure.

Here's the massive investigative reporting series by The Daily Record.  Here's a good place to start.