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Originally Posted by kingchef
ark, i would be interested in knowing why you think the entire project is horrid? i don't think it looks bad, except for that "best buy-shaped building" placed right in front of the main building. that makes no sense, and practically ruins any decent attempt to obtain symmetry. as the eyes goes up, the building looks much better.
the paint colors must have been purchased when one of the k-mart stores went out of business. fire the decorator, call us, and let us do the rest of the work for the money left. paint is the least expensive product w/ which you can improve the looks of a thing.
finally, it is a shame that so much land was used up so far out east for corporate, industrial, and manfacturing purposes. i noticed the IRS buildings had zip codes of their own. as for the hospital on 385, i really don't understand how a con could be awarded, as their is collierville, germantown, basptist centeral, and st. francis w/in an 8 mile radius, approximately. i think that is correct, if i did the math correctly. how will this hospital placement fall into place w/ the planning to avoid a hodge podge of growth?
i wish these developers would come into the core, and begin building large gated communities. some w/ zero lot lines, 1/2 acre lots, and some w/ acre lots. as for the horizon, i think it would be short sighted for memphis developers and developers who are trying to build in metro memphis and downtown to fail in moving to a good deal more of rental property, as the market is headed that way, both eastern and western coastal markets and florida and texas. if development prospects actually materialize w/in the next three months, memphis would need to have a huge amount of housing downtown and in midtown. i would love to see that huge mess of a warehouse on the rise in south main district torn down and a nice scraper placed in its stead. it would look nice at about 35 stories.
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Chef, I think we pretty much agree on the Horizon. I guess what I should have said is the outcome of that project is horrible.
The Horizon had the potential to bring more residents downtown, give us another tower on the river, and possibly could have spurred more development downtown. The negatives are what you mentioned (design and choice of color), and then the fact that the economy tanked right during the construction of it, which is a shame.
Also, which South Main warehouse are you talking about?
But yeah, all of these developers going out east to the sticks Collierville and Germantown get on my nerves.