[rodionx]

It's nice enough. I like the lack of balconies, too. It's a pity that the building decidedly has its back turned to Mechanicsville, though. The fact that they've basically airbrushed the neighbourhood out of the rendering pretty much sums it up. The only thing the locals are going to get out of this is a garage and a moderate increase in car traffic.

I walked through Mechanicsville almost every evening during the strike, and it's not so bad. The location is fantastic - close to downtown, the river, transit, and within walking distance of a decent commercial strip. What they need is a few of those four and five story infill developments that have been spreading west of Bank street for the last ten years or so. Developments like that become part of the neighbourhood. Developments like this... not so much.