They made the area of the old Pullman factory in Chicago a national monument last year. It’s an interesting area and probably deserves preservation. It has a place in African-American history. The neighborhood is sketchy when you get beyond the gentrified area adjacent to the monument, and the neighborhoods you pass through to get there are among the worst in the city. The day I visited, there were a handful of visitors, all of us white. Part of the monument is the interesting Pullman Porters Museum. My son, daughter-in-law, and I had the place to ourselves.
Didn’t mention it, but when I mentioned industrialized Detroit as a historical candidate in my first post, not entirely sarcasm, I was thinking of Pullman. Haven’t been there, sketchy neighborhood, and if like most parks I have to leave any personal protection in my car. From your comment, it isn’t bringing out the local population. And I do think it’s a good thing to encourage urban population to visit National Parks, but I think the idea should be exposing them to what’s out there, not bringing the parks to them. I’ve friends who don’t go to parks, don’t camp, don’t go outdoors. IMO their loss, but they live their lives just fine.