Yeah, I'm not a fan of demolishing the Gimbels Building. It was designed by Daniel Burnham and besides having an obvious abundance of local history, has an interior atrium, that even though enduring hokey modernizations over the years, could really be made impressive again with an top to bottom restoration of the building with modernist elements. I would be in complete support of a Macy's approach where a tower rises from the historic structure and with a full vacating of Manhattan Mall as we have now seen in all it's pathetic glory, that would create the opportunity for a total gut rehabilitation, both inside and an exterior restoration, along with dramatically improved transit connections, while facilitating the necessary load structure to run through the building to support an impressive tower above. Win-Win.
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