Unveiling the Mystery: Woodcliff Condominiums' Abandoned Legacy

[@Annie-e3y]

With all homeless this is ridiculous😮

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

I grew up in that neighborhood. My grandmother owned the condo at 40.N Hamilton rd. It was the very first (now blue) one by the gas station with the bay window. My mom rented the one behind my grandmas on Midcliff. My grandmother bought hers in the 80's. When she retired almost 20 years later she moved to GA and I took over. By then the neighborhood had started to go to Hell all thanks to slumlord Tom Oleander. I moved out in 2001. My grandmother finally had to give in and sell to Tom Oleander. Tom is the soul reason why this once beautiful happy neighborhood into the Hell it became. Its so sad to see it this way and know that it will soon be gone and nothing left of it. My entire childhood was that neighborhood. I had my 1st 2 kids there and pregnant with my 3rd when I had to leave. Just awful. 😢😭💔

[@Alpha_Damon]

4:04 4:04

[@jodijustice8636]

I owned 154C. We move out after 5 years in 2000... due to Tom Oleander. They ripped out all the fencing and turned it into a nightmare. It's so sad to see it like this.

[@CharliBucket]

Is it by turkey hill gas station?

[@niks79x49]

CREEPY and very Walking Dead-ish. Your footage is incredible, and your information about the area is helpful. Excellent.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Thank you! It was creepy to fly it too… I was just waiting for someone to pop out a window as I was flying near by! Ha ha

[@SD-nh5yr]

Wish places like these could be used for homeless, less fortunate, AND veterans who are having a hard time.... just give them a home, no charge rather than have them sit and rot.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

What a waste. The US has a shortage of affordable homes yet all of these are allowed to rot.

[@arkdronesandlife]

It is a waste of resources. Back in the 2008 recession is another example of when thousands/millions of US homes ended up in a state of disrepair.

[@williebeamish5879]

​@@arkdronesandlifeYup. Some some McMansion developments in CA almost completed but abandoned from that era. Personally, I thought they were large, but tacky and boring.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Thats crazy to think about. Are the dilapidated CA McMansions still standing today? The Woodcliff neighborhood was in this state for several years…I had heard they just demolished it and plan to go check it out here soon.

[@alexisgreer5074]

😢😢😢😢😢😢sad as hell

[@arkdronesandlife]

@@alexisgreer5074 completely agree!

[@michaeldesilvio221]

I would love to live there.

[@arkdronesandlife]

I am sure they are budget friendly 😂

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

I GREW UP THERE! 😭💔

[@soundboardIIIlol]

I really want to know what those houses look like on the inside

[@arkdronesandlife]

It would have been awesome to go in them! Someone else commented on this video with details you can google to see some interior photos…

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

They had old unfinished basements. Every condo was 2 connected to each other. They had 2 bedrooms upstairs and in the closet of the master bedrooms there were stairs that led to a 3rd floor bedroom. In the walls on the 3rd floor if u opened up a board u could go inside the wall and crawl over to your neighbors attic space. My bedroom was on the 3rd floor. My grandmother's house was the very 1st (now blue) house with the bay window next to the gas station. My mother rented the one behind her on Midcliff Dr. I grew up there in the 80's to 2001. It used to be such a nice beautiful place. Until Tom Oleander the slumlord bought too many properties and rented to section 8 tenants. That man is the soul reason why that place ended up the way it did.

[@chuckgrassie6940]

Why was it declared a public health nuisance? Crime? Drugs? Contamination? You aren’t being clear of why there was a problem.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Degradation, lack of maintenance upkeep, trash build up, etc…hence why management companies were appointed to clean up the area.

[@daviddixon6408]

All of the above.

[@MF-qf7bs]

Was it a black neighborhood surrounded by whites?

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

All of the above thanks to slumlord Tom Oleander!

[@robertdog]

Blacks.

[@AdrianMunch]

Probably caught up in court over zoning.

[@nia2849]

I wonder why the owners and landlords weren’t making repairs for the renters.. and it wasn’t abandoned… the residents were literally kicked out

[@GgZoo-iK3to]

Music is a hint obnoxious

[@arkdronesandlife]

Oh the irony in your comment…

[@GODSMISTAKE-j9k]

I'm with you, I might have to turn the audio to 0.

[@arkdronesandlife]

@@GODSMISTAKE-j9k go ahead and turn the audio to zero then hit subscribe!

[@donnayarbrough1333]

I'm from Ohio and live about an hour from Columbus never heard of this place

[@arkdronesandlife]

I used to live in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio and I hadn’t heard of it until about a year ago. I hear it’s torn down now, but I plan to go by sometime soon to verify.

[@Crockettsonny84]

They have already started rebuilding it. Its gonna be nice. i live about a half mile from it. @@arkdronesandlife

[@brandyduncan392]

I know where this is. I also lived in a suburb of Columbus. They were really nice at one time. It's a shame that these couldn't be rehabbed for the homeless.

[@davwht9]

You did a drive by. It would of been nice if you got to enter many of these houses and got video of condition 🏡 Did holes in roof help to vent so they burn faster ??? Do some homeless live there ? So sad to just let them rot away like that

[@arkdronesandlife]

I would love to have gone in the houses. However, that is illegal and there are other videos of people exploring the interior of these houses and getting arrested. A drive by as well as the fly-by are legal ways of exploring the buildings. “Firefighters cut holes in roofs to ventilate the smoke and superheated gases. This allows for better visibility for firefighters to more easily extinguish the fire. This also provides more survivable conditions for victims inside.” From firefighterinsider.com/why-do-firefighters-cut-holes-in-roofs/ While I am just taking a guess, I would think there are homeless people that live there…

[@carolynm.8868]

Google architecturalafterlife Woodcliff Condos. It has photos of the inside !

[@FarginIceholeful]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@HiddenHorrorStories-by6np]

May I use your footage for my video?

[@robertdog]

No.

[@fluff1353]

Too bad you don't have a time traveling drone and could fly over the area back in 1970. It would look much, much different.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Time traveling is one of my dreams! I do wish I had footage from the 1970s. Are you from the area?

[@fluff1353]

@@arkdronesandlife Nothing like the area looks today. Back then, there were the duplexes in a pretty quiet, family neighborhood. Rockwell Park was nearby. Parents worked at the Kroger warehouse, or Oasis Manufacturing, or Rockwell International. Some worked at DCSC...the defense department civilian jobs, others worked at Western Electric. There was nothing out there going north until you hit the airport. There were a lot of wooded areas still west of Hamilton Road. The town itself boasted the first shopping center at Town and Country, which today is still there, but minus the anchor stores of course. The powers that be have tried but failed to revitalize the area. The town was never a haven for the rich. But at one time it was a good place to raise a family for middle class folks. Not perfect. Politically stagnant. But it was a decent suburb in a growing city.

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

I grew up there in the 80's until 2001 when I finally had to leave cause the neighborhood was going to shit thanks to one slumlord. Tom Oleander turned a beautiful peaceful neighborhood into what it became today. He got ahold of too many properties and rented to section 8 tenants. Wouldn't fix anything, didn't care what his tenants were doing. He just wanted his money. My grandmother owned the very 1st condo at 40.N Hamilton rd the (now blue) one right next to the gas station. It had a little bay window that's now shattered. It's horrible to see what became of this place. My entire childhood was there. I had my 1st 2 kids there and was pregnant with my 3rd when I finally moved. I was there when 9/11 happened. My forever BFF's grew up in that neighborhood too. Now it's all going to be gone. So sad. 😢😭💔

[@lucsmith2092]

I’ve seen some urbex people’s trip into this place, yuuuuuuk.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Agreed - definitely not great inside!

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

It used to be a beautiful place. A great middle class neighborhood until slumlord Tom Oleander destroyed it!

[@officehelp]

Bizare

[@arkdronesandlife]

It was bizarre to be there!!

[@robertgates5164]

All the buildings have been razed now.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Yep - all torn down now!

[@lolitaong6255]

Empty ? Why ? Lots of homeless in US , why dont put all the homeless there .

[@arkdronesandlife]

The US does have a lot of homeless…The city purchased it after it became a public health nuisance…plan is to redevelop. More details at 5:15.

[@lolitaong6255]

@@arkdronesandlife hopefully redevelope it soon and given to people who has no home ..I been in San Francisco California ,I sew lots of homeless sitting and sleeping in the street..

[@eattherich9215]

@@lolitaong6255: it will be redeveloped for profit. Ain't nobody interested in helping poor people.

[@theirmom4723]

@@lolitaong6255 I'm confused...why should people be given anything? Nobody gave us a home. We had to go out find a job and pay for the home we live in...

[@kathylarson8876]

Is there stores nearby, electric, water, sewer, unless there is doesn't sound feasible

[@OnlyDaria7250]

5:15. Go there

[@daviddixon6408]

Whitehall was nice until the 1990s and then the whole city of Whitehall went down the toilet.

[@arkdronesandlife]

With talking with a few people I know, they said the exact same thing!

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

EXACTLY 💯

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

You can thank corporate America who wants the land to redevelop. They pumped the money out, raised rents, stopped maintenance, residents voluntarily moved or were evicted by the city at time of property deemed nuisance of nth degree. Plans were to include new, at market homes.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Are you from the area? Did you experience the lack of maintenance, price hike, etc? Did you know somebody who lived there that did?

[@robertaolson6847]

What happened, when ???

[@arkdronesandlife]

The city purchased it after it became a public health nuisance…the timeline and details are described starting at 5:15.

[@lisakurtz4655]

These should be renovated and turned into low income housing.

[@CharliBucket]

No Columbus has enough of that. It only invites in people from Youngstown and other unsavory places and Somalis.

[@eriklutz1254]

Ummm. What happened for this development to be abandoned?

[@arkdronesandlife]

The city purchased it after it became a public health nuisance…plan is to redevelop. More details at 5:15.

[@luigib7311]

​@@arkdronesandlifeWhat made it a public health nuisance? Was it "white flight"?

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

SLUMLORD TOM OLEANDER IS THE CAUSE OF THIS!!!

[@fluff1353]

@@luigib7311 Maybe it was "Black Crack." Or "Brown Town." What makes the difference?

[@ligray68]

Crime​@@luigib7311

[@AdrianMunch]

You take away the value of ownership and people don’t care. Everything becomes a depreciable asset with no long term value.

[@arkdronesandlife]

You’re spot on!

[@اميرةاميرة-ز2ب6ش]

اي دولة هذي رايعة

[@RandyZimmerman-pp5wj]

Why is this town deserted

[@arkdronesandlife]

The city purchased it after it became a public health nuisance…plan is to redevelop. More details at 5:15.

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

SLUMLORD TOM OLEANDER!!!

[@ligray68]

Yeaah it became crime ridden full of gang problems

[@arkdronesandlife]

That is too bad. Are you from around that area?

[@Miked818]

This is result of Govt subsidized housing for minorities Windsor Terrace, Rickenbacker English Village and its spreading thru out C-Bus

[@officehelp]

exactly. What a waste.

[@samanthaspringman5527]

FYI America has enough empty /abandoned/foreclosed homes that every homeless person could have 10.

[@Dslicckest1]

Too bad the homeless don’t have the money to renovate them 😞

[@StrawberryCream78]

Is it in ukraine?

[@arkdronesandlife]

It is in Columbus, Ohio - looks as destroyed as parts of Ukraine….

[@ShORTiiqOtGaM3]

Send the migrants there since they won’t send them to Ukraine

[@rozbeaumont]

what a waste

[@arkdronesandlife]

I agree - total waste of resources.

[@paulonorato6886]

Looks like ugly military housing.

[@arkdronesandlife]

Cadets could stay there during boot camp 😂

[@Digger63]

boring

[@arkdronesandlife]

Thanks for the comment boosting the videos algorithm!

[@johnathensapien8078]

Homeless people ain't got no since

[@handytbutler7380]

everyone keeps saying fix it up for the homeless. most homeless people are homeless for a reason. we can not as a country house every person in the country, people have to step up and help themselves. I know there are some that need help and we should do that but a majority are homeless because they dont care about themselves or are willing to work to pay their own way. We need to as a society bring jobs back to the usa and make it possible for people to have better paying jobs and get things back to affordability.

[@1ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

But we can afford to house and feed MILLIONS of illegals now 🤨