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Originally Posted by teddifax
This could turn out just as bad as the previous development next door. The original proposal which was shot down callled for 4, 40 storey towers on each corner with I believe retail and office components below and a huge green space on the roof on the low rise portion. Instead they built that monstrosity that is Quinpool Centre and just like Scotia Square with very little streetscape commercial sites. Any new development anywhere has to be welcoming from the street as well as above. Why can't this city get this right. I get so frustrated with the way things are done here.
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That takes me back. I lived in the area at the time and the development process for what is now Quinpool Center was indeed a fiasco, much like this one risks becoming. The locals were all up in arms about the original proposal, with all the usual "too tall" comments we are so used to hearing - probably from the current generation's parents or grandparents. What we ended up with was the slummy apartment tower at one end, a big parking lot out back and an ill-conceived small shopping mall along Quinpool. The original development of that was actually an enclosed mall with storefronts behind glass in an indoor space. Most/all of that is gone now with individual storefronts opening onto the street and no indoor connectivity, since the original design failed miserably.
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