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Originally Posted by DMTower
...if they're going to insist on building a second downtown, they should at least do it on a grid with the buildings against the street.
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I think that is why they have attempted to create the Sandy City Center area around city hall. There is no way they could create anything resembling an urban, pedestrian, walkable environment along state street, way to wide and busy. However by starting to create some sort of grid in the city center they can attempt to create a downtown. As I attempt to figure out how to transform a suburb into an urban place it really isn't an easy task. I think the creation of the city center area is the best way to start. Unfortunately they didn't embrace historic Sandy as the heart of the city, I think had they focused on that area it would have been slightly easier to build an expanding downtown on the existing grid but they didn't, thus creating a difficult job for themselves.
I think many of us on here seem to be simply anti anything in Sandy. I mean lets be honest with ourselves, as far a creating another job center with highrise buildings the Proscenium project makes substantially more sense than the Gehry Lehi project. Sandy has already invested in the infastructure in that area, street, utilities and a transportation grid, no additional road infastructure would be neccesary to build proscenium, and there is already an office, retail and residential presence within a block or two. Gehry on the other hand is pretty much an empty field, and there is nothing walkable surrounding the site.
So the difference is; Creating a mixed use development in an already semi mixed use area vs creating a mixed use development on an empty piece of land. Don't inturpret this as me supporting Proscenium as it is currently proposed because I do think it will have an effect on downtown, but I would support a scaled down version as I have previously talked about.
Go ahead bring on the "Future Mayor you're and idiot" comments I'm ready.
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