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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Get real man. I don't know where you're coming from but these buildings are nothing special. I don't see what all the hubbub is about. I'm personally in favor of the plaza idea, I really don't think these two buildings add that much to the street or have much architectural merit—there just old, which doesn't always mean worth saving.
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While I'm not going to lose any sleep over their destruction, I think that a plaza on that corner is an unworthy replacement for any functional, tax-paying use of the site.
Looking at the lobby photos of the new building next to them, I love how currently you can look through the lobby to the rough brick wall of the old building. I also think that having some old brick buildings in the area - architecturally significant on their own or not - helps keep it interesting. after all, very few of the modern buildings are easy to interact with for pedestrians.
Also, Franklin there is a speedzone, as is that section of Randolph, so you're putting a plaza next to a flurry of racing cars which, in my opinion, is sort of stupid. The building also makes a nice complement to the preserved buildings at Wells and Franklin. With a little planning that dead two blocks of Franklin could become simply stellar. A little tack-on plaza doesn't even come close to meeting that potential and, far worse, needlessly takes property tax income off the table at a time when we can use all the revenues we have.
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