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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I think it's great news, whether or not you're a huge fan of the house designs.
New housing replacing vacant land, new residents investing on the south side of the city. I mean, that's what we need more of on the south side.
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Disagree with both you guys. We're not talking about an area that is starved for new housing investment - where anything being built should be blindly cheered. Not by a long shot. This is McKinley Park - Redfin ranked it as the nation's hottest affordable neighborhood earlier this year. Capital is flooding the area, focused primarily on residential, but also now increasingly on the commercial side as well. This is awful anti-urban design. There's a lot of this from Chinese developers (obviously focused on Chinese buyers) in particular - where you see rows of townhomes that end to the main street, with a very unattractive, uninviting, anti-pedestrian/urban presence streetside. I mean, c'mon - this is Western, a commercial thoroughfare that these abut. This is junk design. Period. Zoning shouldn't alow these to be configured as such. Mistake.