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Originally Posted by dtnphx
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Maybe the excessive spazzing by people who actually give a shit caused them to finally take things seriously and apologize for being preemptive and will now incorporate the remaining building better into the development that they want a big fucking tax break for. Corporate welfare, period.
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I hope the preservationists (from now on I'm calling them the movementarians) that have their panties in a wad understand that if they fight the GPLET and it is not ultimately approved by the City they can kiss the rest of the building good bye. As it stands it's not demolished entirely and the best part (the south half) is totally still in play for incorporation into a great project. Be the bigger person, accept the apology (however weak the apology may be), realize there's still a lot left to save, and let's move forward to make Roosevelt even better. Trying to save the entire Circles building which means it'll sit and rot and likely fall down (because no way in hell would it have ever been preserved in its entirety) does nothing for everyone, whereas incorporating (the best) part of it into a new great development that adds to the residential base and the growth of Roosevelt helps basically everyone.
Why couldn't the movementarians have been OK with the south half of the building being saved and renovated and possibly ask for 5% affordable housing like was approved in the Derby? Wouldn't that have been a good enough trade off for the GPLET? I mean fighting the GPLET means no one gets anything in perpetuity for this site. At least approving it we all get something (part of the historic building, a new building, and some tax revenue which is better than zero).
As the movementarians are talking now, I think 20 years from now when the GPLET was never approved and the rest of the Circles building has been long since completely demolished and on site is nothing more than an empty lot or maybe a relatively uninspired apartment building with unleased ground floor retail, everyone including the movementarians will be thinking "damn, it would have been cool if even just part of the Circles building was left and incorporated into this site. We should have let cooler heads prevail."
Hoover, you can't have seriously fallen so far off the deep end that you're now a movementarian. Don't you work for GPEC?