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Originally Posted by citywatch
this is very, very kitschy and very vegasy, but if it were merely a matter of quality----which generally means a lower budget-----alot of this fussiness & gaudiness would have been deleted, if only to save $$$....
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What bothers me more than the tackiness is this:
There's hardly any ground floor retail, and the few retail spaces that do exist in his buildings don't get enough light, as they are surrounded by these hulking, unadorned brick walls.
You'll notice that most of these spaces are vacant. And why shouldn't they be? What business in their right mind would open up shop in a place like this? It's a retail death sentence. No one's going to be drawn in to shop there, let alone even
notice that these shops exists.
So that's my biggest beef with Palmer. He has insured that the areas where he has built his projects remain dead blocks, likely for the remainder of our lifetimes. He has single handedly reduced Downtown's potential as an active pedestrian district, especially in City West. Bravo.
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