over an earlier strata of skid-row warehouses , flophouses , jesus-saves shelters , condemned houses , whole neighborhoods hiding beneath the highways where remnants of families struggled , survived or died hidden from the view of city planners , a layer of glitz had been laid : the new coors field for the new baseball team , the pepsi event center , elitches amusement park , its huge ferris wheel dominating the confluence of railroad tracks , bicycle paths and bridges under which a few of the homeless still managed a bit of shut-eye amidst the commotion .