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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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This seems to be the position of you and the mayor, however it is incongruent with the rationale to develop the East Village, which enjoys the support of the mayor's office. Why is it okay to subsidize private developers in the East Village, drawing unsubsidized development activity away from the Beltline, Kensington, Bridges, etc., but not for the West Village?