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Originally Posted by eschaton
The new building will go all the way to the corner of Halket. It will wipe out that "tired complex" plus four other buildings. Only one of them has any historic charm left, which makes it a good trade off.
Carlow is building a Fifth-hugging midrise building a bit further down the street, so there will be a pretty good urban canyon feeling going for a block or so within 5-10 years.
The empty spots in Oakland's development will become more and more evident the further other areas get densified though. I really hope in the longer run Magee does something about its Forbes-facing surface lot. And something eventually happens with the Oakland Portal land. |
Didn't realize it was taking up that whole block. Wow, talk about added density. It is a shame to lose that historic building, but I do agree it will be a good trade off. The rest of it is "meh" at best.