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Originally Posted by LDVArch
It would be useless to have a street wall here for two reasons:
(1) the street itself is inhospitable to pedestrian crossing at all points. It is not a two-lane street. The street is not rectilinear. It has a median in some places.
(2) There is a parking lot across the street.
Street walls are supposed to form public rooms. You can't have a public room with only one wall and when the street itself is an impediment to movement within the room.
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Seems to be a little bit of confusion here. The tower is not planned at the corner of Spring/Cesar Chavez, but further east toward Ord Street.
The approximate location is the right side of this Google Street view shot.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64...4d-118.2386103
Also worth mentioning that there has been talk of an RFP for that big parking lot on the east side of Cesar Chavez, plus two mid-rise buildings now under construction on the former parking lots to the north.