Four Decades Since First Demolition At Pruitt-Igoe
Forty years ago today the first of Pruitt-Igoe’s 33 high rise towers was leveled by implosion. Today most of the site remains vacant and overgrown.
I first walked the site over 20 years ago, it was easier to traverse in 1991. Amazing the site can sit vacant for a longer period than the buildings did.
Here are a couple of short videos you might find interesting:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYrMUcT1jP4
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpN6Wl7Qm0
Hopefully in the next four decades we will see the site be redeveloped and occupied again.
– Steve Patterson