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Originally Posted by mello
Will O' Wisp: Have you heard anything about Bosa moving forward with Pacific Highway and Broadway? I hope that one gets going soon not sure how much a gap filler it would be. Would you guys rather have Manchesters Project with the tall towers to the South and lowers stuff to North (opposite of how it is arranged)? I think for skyline purposes it would be better.
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I'm not directly connected with Bosa or the city planning dept, so all I have is my eyes and what other people write. My eyes tell me there's currently several Bosa trailers in that parking lot but no construction equipment, and others have written that city approved the necessary zoning changes in 2016 so they could have started construction by now if they wanted to. My guess is that with Pacific Gate only about half full atm, Bosa is trying to keep from dumping too much too fast into the market. Wouldn't be too much of a gap filler though seeing as One America Plaza already is right behind it, and slightly taller to boot.
While a full row of 20+ story buildings along the waterfront would have been neat, and I'm certain Doug Manchester would have loved to build it, it just was never an option. The marina district was some of the first housing built during downtown's renewal, a lot of it low rise townhomes. They fought like demons over the last 30 years to hold up this project, and managed to win concessions at a very early stage to have a stepdown to the level of the Embassy Suites.
By all rights we're lucky to get what we have, you wouldn't have something been able to build something nearly this big if it were proposed today. In the mid 2010 the Coastal Commission even tried to renege on the approval they gave back in the 90s, back when the area residents were less well connected and the CC more development friendly, but eventually were forced to settle for Manchester replacing some of the office space with a museum.