Mushrooms

Little apartment buildings like this -- and some not so little ones, too -- are springing up like mushrooms downtown and the areas immediately surrounding it. I took this picture on October 2nd on the near west side, just west of the interstate. This corner has been empty lot for as far back as I can recall (although maybe in the darkest recesses of my memory I can vaguely recall that my friend Earl lived in a ramshackle little house in this spot long ago). I guess it's been a while since I've driven past this intersection, because I never even knew that it was being developed, and now look at it. This apartment building is not only fully built, it's obviously fully rented. What?!? I can't keep up with the pace of the urban infilling that's going on right now. I strongly believe that these opportunistic developers should focus more attention on the southeast side of the city, where there are many areas that desperately need refreshing. I suppose they'll eventually run out of room downtown to do stuff like this, so maybe soon they'll start launching infilling projects further afield.