So much of the "community engagement" is just going through the required theatrics before they get to do what they planned on all along. It's just a waste of time. Some of the ideas of "community members" are just so astonishingly bad and misguided. Can you imagine if they had any more power than they already do? That's just my opinion though.
As far as Affirmation Tower, clearly the "dislike/hate" camp is smaller than the "like/love/orgasm" camp on here, but I think we dodged a bullet. I think the design was absurd and it probably would have had cost overruns in the hundreds of millions. Also, and this is not designed to insight, but how come no one is asking the question why this completely African American led project, future home of the NAACP, in a city with a chronic affordable housing crisis.... didn't include an affordable housing component from the very beginning voluntarily?
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