There is no doubt that he is to be congratulated on being able to actually move forward on his developments while others have not.
Having said that, the back-stabbing and in-fighting between developers lately has really been noticeable. I understand it is a business and they are all battling each other for the same customers, but it still astounds me how much developers seem willing to denegrate each other in public lately. Certainly McCrea has been happy to bash the Nova Centre and has used language borrowed from STV, and now statements like "Large-scale, single-use office towers are irrelevant today, they are irrelevant in the future and these people are dreaming in the past" are really just proving fodder to HT and STV and you KNOW they will be quoting him on his.
I think his broader point is fair that we need to also focus on smaller scale in-fill that is more viable in the short term, but calling large-scale office towers "dinosaurs" is a bit much, consider that what he is advocating at that point is for projects like IP and Waterside to not be built.
It pisses me off that he couldn't just make his point that small scale projects are important for in-fill without slamming other developments. It may serve his own business interests to do so, but it doesn't serve the boader public interest (unless you are a STV member).