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Originally Posted by Oiler
I wish all developers “cared” about design/city building/etc. as much as you, and the other people on this forum do. But most don’t. It’s a business, and it needs to make business sense above all else...
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A bare parking lot or a empty building with no tenants is a sign those people have too much money on their hands and are terrible business people or if they cant afford to upgrade it, they need to sell to someone who will utilize it. The old police station upgrade is a perfect example. I actually know the profits they were making on the elevated and indoor lots and it easily could have stayed that way. Luckily they were more ambitious than just sucking parking fees - compared to some other land holders in our beautiful downtown that are wrecking it for everyone. Commercial lots continue to get built in the suburbs and just like my office - once they’re in the suburbs, it’s so damn hard to get them back downtown.. so hard.