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Are you planning for people to go north or south?
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All directions, but especially beltline to Stephen Ave. Foot traffic is vastly more lucrative to urban business owners than car-drivers.
A lot of big city downtowns have 'evening' districts that are closer/more accessible to the office core than ours.
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Hanging out on the first or second floor of an office tower where you work or your friends work doesn't have a lot of common appeal.
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Which is why we should be very very careful about giving up street-level retail for soulless office lobbies, as has been shown with images in this thread.
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Okay then, whoever owns the land would be happy to sell them.
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To what end? The parking operations likely turn a modest profit over property taxes...the owners are likely holding to develop the blocks themselves or cash-in at the right market conditions...
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There's already a +15 network from the Hyatt to City Hall.
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You said Bay to Hyatt...I'm not sure how this proposal would have a +15 to the west or south?