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Originally Posted by SDCAL
The thing that is really irritating about Manchester allowing just the Navy building to go up, is now we are stuck with that building. The Manchester project had a distinctive design to it and all the buildings were supposed to match this Art Deco-ish design. Now, if a different developer wanted to re-envision that entire site they’d have this Navy building to configure into any plans. Manchester really screwed-up this site which was the last major undeveloped waterfront site like this downtown.
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Was it Manchester that screwed the site up, or was it the years of lawsuits, bureaucracy, NIMBYs, and other similar BS he had to deal with that ultimately screwed the site up? The project would have been completed long ago if it wasn't for all the city's shenanigans.