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The new becomes old becomes black

At this location, a hospital was replaced with a clinic, later replaced by this student housing. The City of Eugene gave the housing project a multi-million dollar tax break. Now Eugene has no hospital, but at least this cheap construction, cracked from thermal expansion in the sun, will now get a coat of black paint.
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4 comments

Stephan Fey said:

LOL! A city with 180.000 residents and no hospital?! Is it because the Medicaid cuts shoked the hospitals?
4 days ago

Steve Nordby replied to Stephan Fey:

This doesn't have to do with Medicaid, but since this is the United States it sure has to do with money. Before about 1990, there were two hospitals in Eugene. The smaller one (the location in the photo) and was purchased by the larger one and shut down. Then that hospital moved to Springfield because the city wouldn't use eminent domain to give them an area of downtown land three times larger than the hospital currently occupied. Now Springfield has two hospitals to serve a metro population of about 300,000.
4 days ago

William Sutherland said:

Superb capture!
4 days ago ( translate )

Stephan Fey replied to Steve Nordby:

Thanks for the answer. At least its only about 5 miles away.
3 days ago
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