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Originally Posted by rds70
A building permit application has been submitted for the long awaited hotel at 1616 Market Street:
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It has been awhile; if memory serves the developer is from San Diego?
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Originally Posted by Fritzdude
I like preservation, too, but these homes are too far gone and don’t provide the resources that a new building will provide - namely housing and commercial space that improves the neighborhood.
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I agree. I fussed a little over the Smiley Building which had lots of history in it's use.
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Originally Posted by Agent Orange
I was scratching my head during a recent trip to Portland and jealously eyeing the incredible amount of new, rather attractive, small scale 4-ish story residential buildings with retail on the bottom that you find along corridors like Alberta, Division, Burnside and many others. We have nothing like it in our "peer city". Tennyson comes closest.
But then I realized what was absent in those PDX buildings that probably kills so many would-be projects in Denver: parking.
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Along the arts district on Alberta I saw a boatload of 1 to 2-story buildings. I did find some of which you reference but since I'm not familiar with Portland, I don't know the history, character of the neighborhoods or how their bones have developed.
At this point I assume Denver is far outpacing Portland as to amount of higher density development which is different but IMO preferred. Retail is generally still better being clustered and otherwise often worthless. I don't doubt parking is more of a 'thing' in Denver but that's typically by choice/requirement of the developers. I'd guess that Denver will evolve to less parking over time.