First of all, for the people screaming at each other on here about parkland versus development, what you dont realize is that is with such a huge piece of property that you can do both! You can have housing of various types in various price points. Houses on canals were people dock their boat at their back door, high-rises, and affordable student apartments. Protected beaches, running trails, and wildlife preserve area.
Secondly, if you go out to Hopkins, you will see and ENTIRE TERMINAL that was built for continental express airlines and is now completely unused! Why not make that the private club/terminal for the rich people in their Gulfstream jets? Allow their limousines to pull directly up to an access point near that building!
Lastly, the one thing that I would hate to lose is the air show, but like a prominent Cleveland developer recently told me, even if A large part of the land is unbuildable, the section all along the shoreWay is buildable and you could put high-rise development there and leave the old runway to use for IndyCar races, the airshow, etc. in the meantime.
There are many great takeaways from this article, but the two strongest for me are that I wholeheartedly agree about people never going anywhere else and so having nothing to compare to. I believe that people should have to submit eveidence that they have visited another large city and also visited downtown of their own city in the past 3 years before being allowed to comment on social media or news sites.
I was in SLC 2 years after theyd hosted THE FREAKIN OLYMPICS and their downtown shopping mall had just gone under, their schools were in trouble, and their new expensive light rail system was basically a very slow train to nowhere. So we neednt have an inferiority complex. And the weather in other places kills lots of people and destroys whole towns, so a little snow and cold is fine with me.
Secondly, you are exactly right in that the people who acknowledge and even embrace the past, while bringing a new solution to it, are the successful ones. Whether it is Michael Symon with food, or Warehouse district condos fashioned from old industrial places or whatever, it gives us something new and salable with a sense of groundedness at the same time.
Chuckles - I'm an old fart too, and until this nonsense with the investment guide, subscribed to the Sunday PD. But I don't care how much better the experience of reading a physical paper is, when they try to give me a bloated advertising pile, disguised as helpful information ( that I can get free on the Internet or from my financial advisor) and then, worst of all, try to make it sound like isn't costing anything additional because they are hiding it and just advancing your billing date, it's too much. They lost me forever
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Secondly, if you go out to Hopkins, you will see and ENTIRE TERMINAL that was built for continental express airlines and is now completely unused! Why not make that the private club/terminal for the rich people in their Gulfstream jets? Allow their limousines to pull directly up to an access point near that building!
Lastly, the one thing that I would hate to lose is the air show, but like a prominent Cleveland developer recently told me, even if A large part of the land is unbuildable, the section all along the shoreWay is buildable and you could put high-rise development there and leave the old runway to use for IndyCar races, the airshow, etc. in the meantime.
I was in SLC 2 years after theyd hosted THE FREAKIN OLYMPICS and their downtown shopping mall had just gone under, their schools were in trouble, and their new expensive light rail system was basically a very slow train to nowhere. So we neednt have an inferiority complex. And the weather in other places kills lots of people and destroys whole towns, so a little snow and cold is fine with me.
Secondly, you are exactly right in that the people who acknowledge and even embrace the past, while bringing a new solution to it, are the successful ones. Whether it is Michael Symon with food, or Warehouse district condos fashioned from old industrial places or whatever, it gives us something new and salable with a sense of groundedness at the same time.