BOXED IN ON BOXING DAY

      I have seen the future of Coconut Grove and its name is Elizabeth Street. I took a short-cut up the West Grove thoroughfare today and was shocked by the distressing proliferation of huge white boxes.  
    Yes, we see them popping up in our South Grove neighborhood as well but on Elizabeth it's Developers Gone Wild. 
 

     Every now and then you see a few of the old Grove houses we know and love. No doubt their days are numbered too.

 

It seems like the developers won't stop until they've replaced all of  our distinctive older homes

with icky big boxes.

     Before they're big, white and ugly they're big, grey, and ugly

    I wouldn't care so much if real people were building their own homes but these are created by box-building businesses that care nothing about our community, our beloved trees, or how rampant construction affects the Grove's present and future.
It's all about money.

    The downtown Grove fares no better. It seems we always have huge cranes hovering in the sky

  helping super-sized white boxes pop up.

   It being Boxing Day, it seems appropriate that I got glimpse of our village's boxy future, the time when everyone here will be living inside the tree-less white confines of "luxury townhouse living".

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    When that happens we'll call it "Townhouse Grove", "Albinoland" or "Coconut Concrete".

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