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Originally Posted by Bunk
It means that there is ample vacant/underutilized land for redevelopment of this nature all across the downtown (East Village, Beltline, Downtown West, Eau Claire) before spending hundreds of millions to facilitate development in the West Village also. There is only a certain amount of demand for urban residential and commercial. Opening this area spreads a fairly finite amount of demand thinner. It would mean other areas, including East Village, would build out less quickly.
In time, the West Village should open up. But, in my view, not until other areas are more substantially built up in and around the downtown.
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Yeah you have stated similar before.
This sounds a lot like the city talking it's position to me.
There is a desire - and in fact a goal - of the city to have a more dense footprint (have more people living centrally). And, not surprisingly, there is no resistance to residential developments throughout the downtown and beltline.
However, the city is now making this argument that there is no need for development in WV.
It is presented as avoiding cannibalization of EV. Yet other development is not discouraged in the same way.
All just politic-ing, it looks like to me.