05-25-2021, 08:14 PM
(05-25-2021, 07:00 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-25-2021, 05:45 PM)jeffster Wrote: Really poorly put together commercial though -- it does nothing to show what King Centre is like.
I guess people cared so little for this mall that no one ever bothered save any historical data. Which proves that not everything is worth saving (though in this case, that building is fine and still has a lot of life in it). It does make you wonder how a mall like this would function, say, 5 years from now when the downtown landscape is going to be unrecognizable. It might have actually done well.
*A* mall might do well...*that* mall never will. The people who designed that mall had no understanding of how streets worked. The mall is disconnected and separate from the street, there is no engagement...there are "mall people" who probably arrive by car, and never interact with the street, and there are "outside people" who get nothing from the mall but a mostly blank wall on most sides.
In the Netherlands, the only mall we went to, we didn't even realize was a mall until we were inside it...that's how integrated it was into the street.
That’s an idea situation. So, with that in mind, it COULD be possible to make that mall the way you just explained, but would require a lot of work — and likely only 1 floor (ground). It this feasible anywhere in DTK or any of the cores?