R1070 wrote:The project keeps getting shorter with each iteration. The next update will have it reduced to a QT and CVS. lol
As it should. There's no reason for these buildings to be as tall as they are except for wishful thinking on Hoque Global's part. They could easily build something modest with modest rents right now--which is the
only thing that makes sense for this area at the moment--then go vertical when the area can justify it in 30 years. But nah, we gotta live with our city being a massive parking lot.
The North End apartments made sense for the site they were on at the time they were built 30 years ago. Now they don't, so they've been torn down and are being replaced. Could this area around the new convention center
someday see the kind of activity that Victory Park/Uptown does right now? Sure. But if it does it won't be on any quicker of a timeline than the latter had, and it won't be until after the new convention center is done, so we're still looking at 30~40 years before a project like Newpark actually makes sense.
So, in the mean time, we
could build something people actually live in and afford and add to the city's activity and let the neighborhood develop organically like any good neighborhood is supposed to. Or Hoque could keep sitting on their hands waiting for a golden goose tenant that's not coming, which seems to be the MO for most developers around town.
The implication of these renderings, that Hoque hopes to create out of thin air just as much gravitational pull as a prime spot in the middle of Victory Park/Uptown, is a waste of their time, our time, and the city's time.
The East Quarter is a much more desirable spot than this and look at how slow and steady its transformation has been. Even the proposed towers there are more modest and realistic than this.