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Originally Posted by mmeade
I thought so years ago too, but this area has been well protected for quite some time. It took me a while to come around, but there is immense value to having working industrial this close to the central city. For one thing, this area is affected by a highway, a massive freeway bridge/overpass, and a train line. If you allowed typical uses, they would start to complain and cause these items to be reworked. That would be unnecessary if the current uses remain.
Additionally, these locations provide jobs. The ideal city contains a variety of jobs and a variety of housing opportunities. People can live near the central city, work near the central city, and benefit from all that the central city provides. Not everyone who lives and works near the central city should be bankers and lawyers and such. I value the diversity.
What I think would be interesting would be to find ways to rework the industrial spaces at a larger scale and create buildings like Activspace that provide space for smaller makers and even smaller industrial users.
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I agree we should keep these light industrial uses close-in, and I like the ActivSpace model, but I would also like to see more buildings catering to larger industrial clients like the New York building at NW 22nd and York. It's a modern, 6-story industrial building (parking and loading docks on the ground floor) with freight elevators and large open floor plates. Basically vertically-oriented flex-space. I could see many similar buildings going up in the CEID as well as the close-in NW Industrial area.
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