Things destroyed by greedy developers

If there's one thing I hate more than anything else in the whole world, it's greedy building developers.
A lot of our American heritage has been destroyed by morons who want nothing more than to build cookie-cutter apartments and condos and other bullshit like that.

Examples:

1. ALCO (Schenectady, NY): The American Locomotive Company, or "ALCO" for short, occupied a spot on the Mohawk River for 112 years. During this time, the plant built thousands upon thousands of locomotives, and it also helped us win World War II. The plant ceased production in 1969, and was leased by several local companies for the next 40 years. In 2010, it was announced that the sprawling complex would be demolished for, what else? Apartments. Railroad preservationists tried to save it, but were sadly unsuccessful. Demolition started in June 2011, and any hope that the buildings could be saved eventually disappeared when Hurricane Irene flooded the site a couple months later.

2. Chesterfield Inn (Myrtle Beach, SC): This was a beautiful old hotel on Ocean Avenue in Downtown Myrtle Beach. It was built in 1946 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Despite this protection, the hotel's dumbass of an owner announced in 2009 that she planned to tear it down to make way for, get this, a fucking mini-golf course. The recession halted those plans for a while, but in the summer of 2012, the demolition went on as scheduled. I was on vacation in Myrtle Beach at the time, and I witnessed this tragedy for myself. It sickens me that they were allowed to tear down a building that was protected from such a thing. But here's the really sad part; the new tables for the mini-golf course were built out of the hotel's floors. I don't care who you are, but that's just plain evil.

3. Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles, CA): The world-famous hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, along with its renowned nightclub, The Cocoanut Grove, was a gathering place for many of Hollywood's biggest stars. These days, the hotel is unfortunately better known for being the site of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. The hotel itself closed in 1989, but remained open for private events. In the early 2000's, it was involved in a bitter legal battle between the Los Angeles Unified School District, who wanted to tear it down to build a school on the site, and the Los Angeles Conservancy, who wanted the hotel to be incorporated into the new school. Sadly, the School District got their way, and most of the hotel was demolished. Some of The Cocoanut Grove was preserved as the school's auditorium, and the hotel's coffee shop was preserved as the teacher's lounge.