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I agree with Berry and Chad in that a high rise is not what the city needs right now. There is a glut of office space downtown right now. If there was a demand for Class A office space, there are several buildings that could be renovated to class a for a relative bargain, but there is no demand.

I'm all for the RSA's investment, but smart growth is preferred.... the RSA headquarters, and the proposed RSA building are sucking up growth for years, if not decades, in two relatively small footprint areas.

Imagine if the Judicial project was scaled back to 4 stories, or so, and the balance of the $$ and sq footage was invested in the "green space" between the RSA parking deck and Dexter?

Or if there was out of the box thinking.... instead of a massive vertical (RSA Tower) or horizontal (Gordon Person's) connected complex's.... imagine, modular, pedestrian friendly buildings that could be retasked from 1000 person state agencies down to 10 person law offices or even retail.


I have three questions.

Is there enough demand to make RSA reconsider?

Is the project too far along for RSA to reconsider?

Will RSA ever reconsider?


If the answers to these are yes, I'll be happy to get involved, and get a web page started, etc....