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Originally Posted by Streamliner
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I admit I’m having trouble seeing the vision for HP. If it succeeds in bringing good tech jobs downtown then it will be good, but I’m kind of underwhelmed by those renderings. It looks like a pretty run of the mill office building. In fact, it looks kind of like something from a suburban office park plopped downtown.
I also thought the plan included taller buildings?
They also seem vague on what will go in the retail spaces.
This also opens up a discussion about if downtown needs a shopping district, which most major downtowns have. Without HP, there is really no major retail downtown (not sure if they are keeping the Macy’s). Meanwhile, UTC continues to explode with a lot of major retail/design stores being built. In fact I read that Design Within Reach which used to be downtown but closed many years ago is going to open in UTC.
I’m wondering if with the trolley extension the thought is that UTC is “the” design/high end retail center of SD so downtown doesn’t need any of this?