Posted Feb 2, 2021, 11:13 AM
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I hope I'm not being a party pooper, but maybe this is a good time for development to take a break and assess what's worked and what's failed during this development cycle.
Midtown north of 10th has seen a lot of growth in the last 10 years, but is it the kind of growth that people were looking for? Much of the area up there feels like a super-sized corporate campus- lots of offices, restaurants for office workers, and now some residential (in the price range of white-collar office workers).
Is this kind of one-dimensional growth durable enough to sustain midtown going forward as a neighborhood even against the tide of COVID and increased work-from-home? Is there enough in Midtown to keep people coming back?
The reason I'm asking is that, that opus site is really huge. That's a significant chunk of the city to put in one basket. And I feel the same about some of the HQ relocations. They seem to be composed of a lot of "filler". I think the large amassed lots in midtown (not original to the neighborhood, might I add) are creating these "megaparcels" that are competive with suburban developments, office parks and malls.
It seems like, instead of a more urban area, where there is a lot of bottom up growth and room for experimentation, midtown seems to be going in the direction of the vertical suburb- big names owning the land in big pieces, zoning very strict, etc. Not a place you'd go to start a small business. Maybe Midtown needs to slow up a little so it can see where it's gone and where it wants to go.
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