07-13-2015, 05:30 PM
(07-13-2015, 04:58 PM)realtyforward Wrote: I strongly agree with you. Most of the new projects that are getting approved have little consideration for the long term.
My concern is that it's right on a prime piece of land - that is, along King Street, very close to the new transit station. These low density residential projects just seem like they would be better suited to surrounding streets, such as Duke West or further east near the Weber East and Lancaster East area.
Save the arterial roads for larger projects that are going to be suitable for the next 15-20 years like what is proposed for King's Crossing. Maybe not as tall or containing as much square footage, but they offer much more space and will most likely have better structural and architectural work put into them. As you say, this seems like it will compare to the hideous structures going up in the university area that are most certainly going to suffer over time. Think brutalist architecture, which may have looked really sleek and modernist in the 1970s ends up looking like a weathered military bunker a decade or so later as the brick and concrete starts to weather and age.