Bush and SDCAL excellent news. This needs to be 500 feet and a Four Seasons Mixed use tower would be awesome. Downtown Miami has a tower with Four Seasons, Condos, and Office.
Question for you all, when we get a high quality (hopefully iconic) 500 footer at 7th and Market will Petco Park surpass PNC Park in Pittsburgh for the best skyline view from an MLB Ballpark? Think about it you will have the Sempra building front and Center then right behind it BOOM a 500 footer so close to center field with The Mark standing right next to it. Then you will have BallPark Village looming just over the first base side of the ballpark. The only thing that will suck is the view to Symphony towers and the row of office towers along B and C street will get blocked by 7th and Market so you won't have the cool depth perception of looking out in the city that Petco has now. |
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Spoonman you are right it is funny how 6th, 7th, and 8th Ave's going North from Market towards Broadway really don't have any tall towers. Those are such prime blocks but they have a lot of low rise and stuff and nothing tall what so ever.
NorthParkWiz: The thing with PNC park though is that the skyline is across the river. The unique thing with PETCO is its the only ballpark where you literally feel like you are surrounded by buildings. a 500 footer at 7th and Market will be so close to center field that it will give an amazing visual. Also look at all the other buildings right there with views in to Ballpark. It will have the Omni on one side and BallPark Village on the other. Then don't forget right behind the Ballpark JMI is planning that giant hotel which will surely be 500 feet. So no other city can claim an effect like Petco. Pittsburgh is great but you feel like you are looking at the city not IN the city. |
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Downtown is sort of a circle of towers around the Gaslamp. Major infill projects just outside the restricted area, like Sempra and 7th & Market, will change this. |
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I believe it is literally the area between 4th and 6th. So a building on the east side of 6th can be taller than a building on the west side of the street.
Here is the link to the regulations. It appears the height max is 60-75' from Broadway down to Island, and 125' from Island south to Harbor. http://civicsd.com/images/stories/do...p_PDO.6.14.pdf |
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I don't know if any of you are on twitter but I found this person linked to a streetsofsandiego tweet:
https://twitter.com/risetheballoon This person is either joking or a complete joke. Too freaking funny (or sad). |
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http://www.raisetheballoon.com/ :slob: |
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-quote from their website Translation: San Diego is growing, people want to live and work here, those people need a place to live, and WE DON'T LIKE IT. There's plenty of room in not so desirable places...... |
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San Francisco and other cities have the same problems. Most of SF is zoned for floor area ratio of 4 or 5, despite enormous demand for more housing. Why? Because people who own those homes vote, and they're not going to vote for an increase in the housing supply that keeps their home prices stable (vs. increasing absurdly.) This is why, IMO, cities should not meddle in zoning except where safety is concerned. |
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Aero, property owners pay the most in taxes, whereas, young/renters do not. Property owners votes are taken more seriously by local politicians. They also tend to make donations, whereas transients do not because they're here one day, gone tomorrow. |
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Guys come on, the twitter feed SDFan posted is clearly a parody and pretty funny at that.
Yeah the "RAISE the balloon" group is real, but the twitter account (RISE the balloon) is an obvious parody of that group. Look at the differences in logos from "raisetheballoon.com" and the twitter account of "Maggie Edwards' RISE the balloon". (https://twitter.com/risetheballoon) http://www.raisetheballoon.com/wp-co...signresize.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banner...15396/1500x500 :D:D |
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