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Old Posted Apr 6, 2012, 8:54 PM
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Originally Posted by lawfin View Post
This is awful. North / Clybourn continue their march into suburban style autocentric hell. What could have been if the design was simply more urban in form. This whole area is a massive missed opportunity.
While it's disappointing to read about that much parking, and thus thousands more cars a day being forced through those intersections, the ratio is about 40% fewer spaces than would be typical for a suburban development (four spaces per 1000 square feet of retail + one space per residential unit = 1760 spaces under typical requirements).

I don't think that it necessarily places older retail areas at a disadvantage -- except perhaps when leasing to chains that stupidly require on-site parking. Places like North Avenue Collection allow you to park once in the garage and walk around instead of limiting their parking to on-site customers only. Encourage more of that, and you'll find that people may eventually stop complaining that "I can't find parking around Clybourn."

Re: Motor Row, interesting that they've proposed two Shanghai-themed restaurants (one with "snow cone machine... Asian cocktail waitresses"?) and lured ZinZanni over from Block 37. (That was a dubiously square location for such a concept, anyways.) A microbrewery is slated for 2337, the narrow mid-block building on the east side of the street. There was a mention in the document that a zoning change now allows 4AM liquor licenses -- wonder how that'll affect attendance at 7:30AM conference sessions.
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