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Originally Posted by worldlyhaligonian
Those buildings around the new area don't look very tall / dense. Cogswell was supposed to be the place where the height would be built.
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The Cogswell lands are still affected by the ramparts height restrictions. I think it would be better to throw those out and allow heights that make sense for the area without worrying about the Citadel courtyard but that seems unlikely to happen. If taller buildings continue to be proposed and built they'll probably be outside of downtown.
Even with the shorter height limits this is still a lot of potential infill and is really going to change the feel of the whole area.
The north end of downtown around Historic Properties is one of the nicest parts architecturally but it feels underused and squandered right now because the interchange is so unfriendly. Just having that new Granville square with some nice buildings on the new lots around it would be a big improvement.
One interesting aspect of the plan is that it's going to be downtown-like down below Brunswick and increasingly downtown-like above Brunswick around Gottingen, but there is a pocket of lower density residential in between. Maybe it won't matter much since there are development sites along Cogswell. Cogswell is the only natural artery here since none of the east-west streets farther north connect up well until you get to North.