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Originally Posted by colemonkee
Love the tower, but looks pretty isolated.
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The first big tower in an area is always going to be isolated and stand out. It will blend in with time if others are planned. I'm reminded of Journal Square when the first 51-storey tower started to rise. It must have been about 3 times taller than anything else in the area. Nowadays, there is a whole new skyline in Journal Square with the peak at 70 storeys and a bunch of mid-rise buildings. It works now, but it was hard to see the vision when the site was just a rooming house.
Crawford, agreed. It looks like there is plenty of vacant land that could see high-density development. I'm not sure about the zoning for the area or what the redevelopment plan states. I'm going to take a look now. What I really want to see is that awful surface parking for the Liberty State Park station be redeveloped. It doesn't have to be highrises but townhomes to midrises with a structured parking deck would be such a better use of land.