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Old Posted Feb 7, 2013, 7:05 PM
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Originally Posted by rla82 View Post
My larger concern is the new trend of 5 floors of above-grade parking beneath a residential tower. In the future when there IS lower demand for parking how are those floors retrofitted into anything viable? Though certainly more expensive, the City could be requiring below-grade parking for these new towers. That may make it less viable to construct a 20-story building, but 5- and 6-story buildings fill in the gaps in our fabric just as well and can create just as nice of a city (if not better, i.e. European models).
Storage units. Or maybe we can use them as holding pens for the homeless and the hipsters.
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