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Originally Posted by NativeOrange
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Thanks. Im liking it as well. Surprised it slipped passed me.
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Originally Posted by King Kill 'em
That one has an extremely prime location and it's much uglier and smaller (4 stories residential) than the 7 stories going up today. Plus it has no ground floor retail. Don't expect the 7 story wood frames going up now or in the last few years to come down for at least 30-40 years.
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Right....But doesn't matter how big or small, short or tall or what's ugly and what's decent or what has ground floor retail (since most is still sitting vacant or sterile anyway). At the end of the day, money talks. As with this case, a building that is barely 10-15 years old (just from what I've seen others seen, not sure of the exact age) being torn down for something better shouldn't be shocking.
Take common sense and emotions away from it being "its still new, its wasteful to tear it down, blah blah" and put your mind where developers minds are at "more money, more money, more money".Its a "prime location" true...but just a block are two to the east is where majority of our newest wood frame monoliths downtown were placed. As the southern end of Fig begins to boom, that spillover will flood the rest of South park since the further east you go, the least alluring it becomes. No one seems to want to break through the wall/fortress known as skid row.
But who knows. 60 years ago, 100s of perfectly fine buildings were torn down for parking lots.
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