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Originally Posted by BrianTH
As I suggested before, you could ultimately cobble together a lot of square footage by combining these three areas:
That's particularly true if you were willing to do significant highrises in some of those locations. |
I can totally buy having a campus extend from the Lower Strip to Schweitzer Loch. It helps that Buncher owns the land on both sides of the bridge, and the 16th Street Bridge isn't terrible from a pedestrian standpoint. Plus there are (or soon will be) hundreds of apartment units within a few block radius of both sites.
Integrating the Lower Hill into this would be harder, IMHO. Even post deck-park, it's going to be pretty circuitous to walk from there to the Strip due to topography and 579. I also anticipate there would be
a lot of community opposition to Amazon filling up the Lower Hill, because the gentrification of the Hill District would become a certainty. Of course the hundreds of affordable units would be protected for decades to come, but everything else would not.