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Originally Posted by AdamNorthwest
I would love to see some restoration of the street grid, but an entertainment center with some apartments would be great to offset the dead zone around stadiums during non-game days.
It's unfortunate that Rose Quarter is so quiet outside of Blazer games.
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My hope with the Rose Quarter is that someday we will get a transit or light rail tunnel under the Willamette that will connect to a huge underground station at the Rose Quarter that hooks up to a high speed rail line that would turn that area into a massive transportation hub.
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Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist
A stadium would be great in this location, but one of the (often under-appreciated) things that makes mega projects work, is all the small scale investment that precedes them. In my view this is why the AAT projects in the area have struggled. We need entrepreneurs to open interesting businesses in the neighborhood, a good food cart pod, a few scrappy wood frame housing projects, etc. You need a baseline level of vitality in the surrounding neighborhood for a mega project to be successful. So far at least the Lloyd district doesn't have this.
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With the Lloyd District, you sort of have this small business, smaller buildings style along NE Broadway, but the Lloyd Center really cuts off that area from the rest of the district. Plus it doesn't help that a couple companies own much of the land in the Lloyd District, which makes it much harder for smaller projects to happen.
Added: I just realized I am commenting to two different Adams.