[Aging Hipster]

I, for one, welcome our new point tower overlords 😉 I'm honestly surprised at the commitment to building a street wall on Record St and even Foundry St to the degree that they are. There isn't really any connecting urban fabric between Main and that area. Will pedestrians want to wander down Foundry or Lutz? There's nothing there for them now. It's actually pretty daring to build all that street-level retail.

Would I prefer a totally wrapped block? Sure. But on the other hand, there's no street parking on Foundry and Waterloo is mostly residential. They aren't going to want more car activity there. And, it's pretty hard to create that enclosed urban feeling without any other street walls facing it.

This is going to change the face of a part of downtown that has been down in the dumps as long as I can remember. Who knows, maybe this will inspire even more development in the oceans of parking between Main and Assumption.