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It should be razed. No hospital. No city hall, library, laboratory. Left open as a park with maybe a large pavilion. Less is more. Building something for the sake of building something is not the answer.
It should be razed. No hospital. No city hall, library, laboratory. Left open as a park with maybe a large pavilion. Less is more. Building something for the sake of building something is not the answer.
Eh, there's a massive, underutilized park directly across the street in Station Park. I don't think converting the whole mall property to another park is really going to provide any sort of benefit to anyone. I'd be all for daylighting more of the river and the Promenade St. pedestrian path, but leveling the entire mall and turning it into a park would be a very expensive way to ensure land in the heart of downtown remains underutilized in perpetuity.
A better bet would be to renovate and repurpose the building. Taking a page from Cambridgeside's book would be smart. Consolidate the shopping to a single level (maybe 2), upgrade the Francis St. retail frontage, add a residential and/or hotel component, and covert upper floors to lab space, etc. Concentrating retail should help with vacancy rates, adding more mixed use means there will be more people at more hours, and keeping the parking garage retains an asset people use for much more than just visiting the mall.
It should be razed. No hospital. No city hall, library, laboratory. Left open as a park with maybe a large pavilion. Less is more. Building something for the sake of building something is not the answer.
We have what used to.be the largest mall in the southeast that is now pretty much empty. It lost all it's anchors. It's now a YouTube video for abandoned malls. These are tough to repurpose but it can be done.
I'm not the one trying to spin this. No one has asked for family photos. Stop trolling.
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Originally Posted by lrfox
I'm not spinning anything, just sharing how the exchange appeared to me. The posts are right there for anyone else to form their own opinion.
Let me get this straight.
A poster claimed to have been in Union Square in San Francisco last summer. Said poster also claimed there wasn't any crime.
Baffled by the dubious claims of the aforementioned poster, another poster asked if the person has any pictures of Union Square.
And you interpreted that exchange as someone asking for pictures of underage girls?
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