The Projects are the run-down and poor side of Basin City, is a tangle of high-rise apartments built during the grandest social welfare initiative in the city's history. However 50 years ago and still during their construction the labor problems started; the plumbers stopped working and the city since then is being negotiating a new contract with their union.
The Projects remained unfinished and became home to hopeless and crazy. Crime runs rampant and its inhabitants have apparently evolved their own independent society with almost no legal contact with the outside world.
Marv was born in the Projects and they make Dwight sick.