Yay! I guessed California City would be number one!

"single-family home" followed by a description of a hotel. Most of these certainly don't feel like actual homes, who would want to permanently live in a hotel?

California City is hot already. 🥵 It’s not an oasis , not even close.

Billions of dollars for failed pet projects. Got it.

In Pontiac, MI there was suppose to be a whole brand new development planned in early 2000 which they started but due to funding from the company which turned into fraud declaring bankruptcy the development failed as they started, it’s been retrofitted today to being a new plaza full of stores

Great informal video.

What if they just sold it to a holding company for cheap to avoid having to pay taxes on such an asset? Then buy it back for the same amount for a lower tax rate for the asset?

Wow. I gotta get rich so I can buy some skyscrapers 🏙️

Trump baby, Drill, baby drill!!!

We had a small section of highway completed on Staten Island that was never used. It sat for decades and kids would go up there to get drunk. They finally demolished it.

Great video. Instantly subscribed!

If its green, its shit

I live about 45 minutes from the Longaberger basket building in Newark, Ohio and had the pleasure of working in it on a contract job some years ago. During Longaberger’s heyday it was no less controversial, but it was beautiful inside and out, and is much larger than expected when it comes into view while driving there.

I watched hoping I would see Colorado City, Colorado! My father in law invested in a lot there in the 60’s, it never happened, and now most of the lots are owned by the city. You should check it out!

How did so many of these developments get to the point of being marketed or built without all the permit and soil testing even being completed. I live in Savannah, GA, and we can't build an outhouse without soil borings, complete land investigations and an assortment of other boring and lengthy steps. And don't even mention the word swamp! It truly amazes me.

Great Video. You could easily do 40 of these type videos. Our country was full of these great architectural structures. The intricate and extravagant designs were commonplace, because there were men who could build them. As the decades passed, they could no longer be built and could not even be kept up. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago and more were replete with 'millionaire's rows' mansions. The owners died and their kids could not keep them up or simply did not want them, and they fell victim to the wrecking ball. It is an absolute shame that structures like these are no longer with us, but that is the unfortunate way of the building world.

apartments like with everything else here

Manhattan/the Country, has lost so many architectural wonders.

Several of these mansions could be restored and made useful. The One is hideous and looks like a motel.

Make low income housing out of it!

#10 might look better if it had a red brick facade with ivy crawling up the walls and the picnic basket, could it be renovated into a hotel or apartments?

Not surprised, my dad was the pipefitter in charge of keeping that building running during the night for 15 years and they layed him off the day before he left for a vacation

Je suis français et je voudrais vous dire qu’il est bien dommage d’avoir détruit de tels chef-d'œuvre, le n*1 surtout. C'est votre histoire et votre mémoire que vous détruisez, même le XIXeme siècle doit être considéré, en France nous avons aussi fait de graves erreurs dans les années 60 et70’, gare Montmarnasse, les halles de Paris par exemple. Aujourd’hui rien ne peut les remplacer. Il faut que les américains est conscience de leur patrimoine et de leur ingénierie, ils sont aussi important que celui des européens.

Turn them into residential PLEASE, we need more walkable areas and infrastructure

I have an acquaintance who made a fortune in commercial real estate. His income is less than a quarter of what he was making five years ago. Not all of those office towers are suitable for residential conversation. People prefer to work from home. It's a new era we are in, thanks to covid.

The 1960s was the heyday of greedy developers and sheeple architectsand their reinvention of the lifeless box.....

I love the Zizkov Tower.

You read my mind with your first comment. When I saw the title to your video, I said to myself, each major city in the US can point to failed policies where the public is on the hook for new facilities before the old facilities are paid for. Proponents always state that without these pro teams and facilities, municipalities will miss out on revenue but most studies show that this claim doesn’t hold water. Public spending on privately owned sports franchises typically yields a breakeven at best and more often than not a net loss to taxpayers. The people who don’t loose are the team owners who’s teams appreciate exponentially through taxpayers largesse. In this scenario, costs are socialized but profits are privatized. Taxpayers should demand a stop to these practices and say no to sport franchise facilities folly.

Soul City? Sounds a lot like modern day South Africa.

Madness is everywhere. The size of these nansions 🤔

"We hate the modern world! We need it to be like the olden days!" --- proceeds to make over sized modern day atrocities based on Modernism, looking like indoor baseball parks, shopping malls, and Scientology vanity projects. I mean if you are going to think like it is somehow medieval times and that was all dreamy, maybe go with a little rock chapel and call it a day.

Chicken Church, now that sums up all religion perfectly. 😂

5:03 Americans need that rail road system. So much more money would come trains big business make money from the train people

Then you have places that did eventually get built out or mostly built out, but decades late, and ended up with a much less upscale (or more downscale!) population then originally intended...

good job.

do one on fossil fuels. example, mercury in fish.

What a sad things that late 19th and 20th architecture ingenuity couldn’t escape greedy politicians. I find it a shame these monuments were destroyed and replaced with ugly monstrosity’s. These really have no appeal and have no class. Some San Francisco’s architecture is still standing. The history of these monuments are very captivating.

Can I add the Montreal Olympic stadium to the list as a White elephant.

The Montreal Olympic stadium is currently in the process of fitting a permanent steel roof. The stadium will be reopened in 2028. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWiQiniZp5qqrMk

XL Center is so cool looking, it's like an X-Files building, maybe they used that in B-Roll, looks like one of the random places Scully would be doing an autopsy.

It was the tallest, surpassed the Chrysler for about a month, after it topped out, the Chrysler building crew put up the silver spire & surpassed 40 Wall to become the world's largest, a record it held for only a year, till the empire state surpassed it. Empire state didn't begin construction till 1930, in 1929 they were still demolishing the old Waldorf Astoria. 40 Wall was then known as the Bank of Manhattan building, today it's called the TRUMP building, cause you know who owns it.

The Lasalle Expressway in Niagara Falls, NY could also qualify. Originally conceived as the northern terminus of a massive outer beltway around Buffalo (Rt 179 south of the city was the other end), that outer belt was never built. So the Lasalle expressway is a 2 1/2 mi expressway that doesn’t really go anywhere. And even more concerning, its construction lead in part to the Love Canal environmental disaster of the 1970s, as the road construction tore through an old buried canal bed where a chemical company had previously buried barrels of toxic waste.

I wish I could have gone to Hard Rock Park during its original run. They had a critically acclaimed dark ride themed to The Moody Blues. As a big dark ride fan, this sounded like it was a site to behold. I would have also loved the credit for riding that roller coaster with the ferris wheel. Such a cool idea for a park. Great video, my dude. I've been really enjoying your channel.

Haha what’s crazy is my Dad heard about this a few days after it sold and said he would have gave an offer on it if he knew it was for sale. ( We are not rich, we live on 6 acres in rural columbia Illinois about 15 minutes from downtown stl.) He has jst played his cards right and always asked god for guidance, and has insane credit. I literally couldn’t even imagine if that would’ve happened

Is Beijing National Stadium a failed project? No, it was originally positioned as a multi-purpose venue and holds many activities every year. For example, it will be transformed into an ice and snow park until February.

Is Beijing National Stadium a failed project? No, it was originally positioned as a multi-purpose venue and holds many activities every year. For example, it will be transformed into an ice and snow park until February. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnWmfqWEidVrjs0

Hear me out, why not recreate some of these structures with modern construction methods and amenities.

Jan Berry was in Beverly Hills when he had his accident. Many claim that name for dead man's curve in their area. The song speaks of Sunset Boulevard in L.A.

Content. Thinner than that building.

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