12-18-2015, 01:42 PM
(12-18-2015, 10:20 AM)insider Wrote: It 's also ironic that a major selling point on the website is the location "at the Iron Horse trailhead"... that phrase is also under the logo for the project. Funny.
Well, now that the trail has been cut in half by City Council’s boneheaded decision, they actually are at the end of the remaining section of the trail!
What I personally find most disappointing about this whole affair is that they had an opportunity to create an interesting pedestrian space between the two halves of the building, a road for pedestrians and cyclists only. This could even have involved a continuous parking garage under the whole site, and perhaps a slight re-routing (maybe a straight diagonal, rather than following the exact path of the old rail line) to work better with the rest of the plan. Instead we get a wholesale detouring of a public transportation route around a single building just so the designers don’t have to be creative with accommodating the existing conditions.