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Originally Posted by RED_PDXer
Lot 1 is a horrible location in terms of access. Rearranging the bring ramps will be incredibly expensive. Given all the other available sites downtown, I can't imagine it getting developed any time soon. Maybe 30 years from now we will see a building there.. perhaps in the shape of a rectangle, if we're lucky.
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Not really that much would need to be rearranged to build on Lot 1, anything that got built there would have to rely on the other blocks obviously, but having a building that is basically Lot 1 and Lot 16 combined would be easy to do and all it would require is passage for the trains under the building which would already be accounted for within the structure of the building and thus making those two lots into a single building, which isn't any more complicated than building a building in general.
Also if all four blocks were in play, as is being suggested, it would also be equally just as easy to connect Lot 2 and Lot 39 to Lot 1 via going under the two bridge ramps simply because they are both high enough to walk under currently and would be fairly easy to build passage under them to connect each section together.
It would make sense to have these four blocks function as one complex of some sort. It will definitely be interesting to see what comes of this, even though it is safe to say nothing will be built here for at least another 5-10 years if we are lucky.
As for the two bridge ramps that are in Lot 39 and Lot 2, those are already in the plans to be removed when future development for these lots looks like it will actually happen. I vaguely remember the city doing a study on the importance of these two ramps and found that it wouldn't hinder downtown traffic much to remove them, so all that would happen is simply demolishing the ramps when construction phases are in place for new buildings.