[a chicago bearcat]

was just in downtown evanston
and noticed something interesting about this building in comparison to those around it

The retail or ground floor, is huge, twice the height of most in the downtown area, but similarly scaled to the newer developments, all of which feel pedestrian-wise, more like michigan avenue than the downtown evanston I really love, such as just around fountain square

but, this is an odd complaint in one sense, because all of the "historic" buildings in evanston are infact imitations of what was being built on michigan avenue at the same time, when it was the boutique alternative to State street, and evanston wanted to be the alternative to Michigan avenue

so maybe it's appropriate on a philosophical level for it to impersonate michigan avenue, but I'd much rather have the pedestrian scaled storefronts of the older buildings, because I despise mall-ification of the street