My grandparents live in the town of Preston which is still fighting with the state over Norwich. The state wants it back, what the fuck are they going to do with it? NOTHING.
Preston can't afford to clean it up, would cost too much taxpayer money. There's some kind of clause that they can't assume the mess from the state and then turn around and pass it off to someone else, which doesn't make any sense to me since the state doesn't want to clean it up and they made the mess.
The only way Norwich could go affordably is if it went in pieces. Demo the buildings that can't be saved and rehab the ones that aren't too bad. But.....of course that makes too much sense so you're probably right! ABANDONED FOREVER.
The worse this economy gets, the less money there is for security operations where all the guards do is read playboy all day waiting for someone to come blazing through to get chased.