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Originally Posted by colemonkee
Time to get this thread back on track with a good old-fashioned photo update.[/IMG]
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TY, colemonkee! when this thread starts to get too OT or too full of stuff you want to red pen, I recommend adding photo spreads, as much & as many as possible. Short of posts about a groundbreaking of new devlpt, or unveiling of a new proj----which hasn't been happening too much lately----photo updates to me are the best way to bring this thread back to life.
the Genesis apt bldg looks perfectly fine to me, esp since it's a proj aimed at lower income tenants. It sure makes the portofino restaurant on the corner of 5th & main seem less lonely.
btw, I was reading reviews of that place & it's interesting that some customers say the outdoor seating area is ok now cuz the owner put up a high hedge. I guess ppl who'd dine outside near the sidewalk in the past ran the risk of being harassed by aggressive panhandlers or homeless types.
Someone wrote the restaurant was very quiet----without any long waits for customers---during a recent art walk. The implication was the portofino doesn't have good word of mouth. If so, I'd hate for that corner to become vacant all over again. Poor word of mouth also would be quite different to what another Italian restaurant, colori kitchen, gets a few blocks away.
The outside of the Clark hotel is exactly as I recall it looking several months ago. I'm really astonished it still looks so rundown. What is with the owners?!
Why would they spend so much time & $$ fixing up the pool area on the rooftop of the annex to the south of the main bldg & do almost nothing to the exterior itself?! that doesn't make sense. I'm worried the owners are such novices or underfunded, their vision of a revived clark hotel won't last very long into the future. I sure hope I'm wrong, cuz it's way overdue for that part of Hill St to finally look decent.
I like what the owner is doing to the little bldg for the Kitchen Table. I remember it once looking so shacky, that I thought it would be easier to just tear it down & start anew. I remember a time not too long ago when the nearby Pete's was the only thing of value around there to passers bys & hungry customers. The march of time---waving bye bye to the bad ol days---is a very good thing.
TG the former parking lot directly across from city hall has been removed! That was the worse type of foreground or background for a bldg of importance, civic or otherwise. but as you say, it's a shame the site of the old state bldg wasn't cleared out & included with the rest of the makeover of that block of land.
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