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Originally Posted by Hayward
I think we are all saying the same thing here. It's an awful building that we wish could be replaced entirely. But it cannot because it is cost prohibitive. COBO can still remain a profitable facility but requires upgrades. What's been presented to us, is enough to satisfy me at least, knowing the realities of this project.
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It's awful in theory, and right now it's an unsightly behemoth, but I honestly don't see this huge negative impact on downtown that everyone's talking about. I guess it functions as an unnatural barrier to the outward growth of the CBD, but it's at the very outside corner of it anyway. If the city was healthy (which it isn't) and growing (which it isn't) then I would have more of a problem with it, I think.
Can you honestly say you've ever been trying to get somewhere and been annoyed that Cobo was in your way? I walk all over downtown and I've never felt it had a negative impact on the city for any other reason than its ugliness.