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Old Posted Sep 7, 2016, 12:39 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Visited AA for the first time in years this past weekend.

I sure love the place. Perhaps one of the 2-3 best college towns in the country.

While I like the density of the new development that has gone up, I'm for the most part not impressed with the design. Pretty standard, schlocky stuff. Ann Arbor would be wise to take cues from the Hyde Park area of Chicago, another "college town". Much of the newer development there, both on and off campus, has some very cutting edge design.

Whatever gets built in downtown Ann Arbor may or may not have anything to do with U of M, but it will still reflect on the University in the minds of students and visitors.
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