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Old Posted Jul 29, 2010, 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by kw5150 View Post
I guess they want it to be more scaled to a city of 1,000,000 + and not a city of 500,000 which is what it was designed for. The also want more visibility to Prince's Island Park. They are also calling for the removal of all of the buildings, inlcluding the entire market and theatre which kind of blows my mind. The will apparently be moving the old 1890 cafe (or whatever that awesome place is called) in front of the YMCA which is a very odd juxtaposition of building scale in my opinion!
Call me a skeptic. Does that mean if we had 10 million people we should have a 3 block by 3 block open area?
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