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Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller
The commitment to building affordable units only on land that is currently publicly owned seems like a significant concession to me, as is the significant amount of green space. The land there is not accessible as is. Creating space that is open to the public and with a lot of affordable housing should be an easy win.
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You would think that it would be enough, but it won't be. The thing about Amazon pulling out, they NIMBY movement somehow thought they would be in charge of whatever eventually got built there, even though there was an earlier approval in the works that suggested they would not. But where you would have had millions of square feet of jobs, will now be mostly condos. And that's all they will see. I've been looking at some of the statements, and they're already turning on some of the politicians who made a circus of the Amazon debacle. But the thing is, this land was always going to be developed, and it was never going to be what the NIMBYs wanted.
I think the open space as you said is generous, as will the plan to extend the waterfront promenade...
I think the 1 msf office building that TF Cornerstone is planning on the city sites is one of the 2 wide buildings in the center, the one closer to the waterfront. So at least 2 office buildings in the mix. It looks like the large DOE building still stands in that plan. That's something the community wanted, we'll see where that goes...
Compared to the original, pre-Amazon plan...