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Originally Posted by GenWhy?
Reading this more closely my hunch seems correct that they designed the main level with no small scale retail or retail activations as they're putting their eggs into the possibility of temporary "pop-up" CRUs on the plaza. Their design principles even detail this out. They address that dead spaces will be an issue, and then essentially say we're proposing an "alternative" to what is typically recommended and done... which is to not provide small scale retail (as per policy) or activate the edges and corners.
"The proposal presents an alternative recommendation, where the
smaller scale retail is clustered along the public plaza with the
Broadway elevation at grade being dominated by a glazed elevation
for the grocery store. "
This is a big cop out. They're intending to use square footage from the public plaza space to install pop up businesses so they don't have to put them into the design of their building floorplate on their mainfloor.
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I agree. This plan looks pretty poor at street level.
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