^ It's all of these reasons really. There really won't be a lot of spillover from the Obama Center, so putting it in a struggling area is pointless. Nobody's moving in to live near a presidential library, lol.
Washington Park should focus on its strengths IMO, which are transit access and the park itself. The city should invest in that beautiful park so it's not crumbling and isn't cut in two by an auto sewer (maybe put Morgan/Rainey in a trench like the Central Park transverse roads). Then focus on building a TOD node at Garfield.
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la forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas! que le coeur d'un mortel...
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