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Originally Posted by jFug
While I would love to see that lot developed, I feel like it would be a hard sell as residential.
Being located across the street from a hospital, having ambulances blaring, helicopter whirling; I'm not sure.
But what do I know?
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I dunno, man... I don’t see how residential development near a hospital is a detractor. For someone who wants the comparative peace and quiet of the suburbs, no, it would be a tough sell, but that person has zero interest in living in urban surroundings anyway.
Residential development is so common near hospitals that it’s basically a given that it will be present in cities. If you live right in the city, you’re going to hear the noises of the city. That’s part of living in the city.
Modern Tool apartments are immediately adjacent to UPMC Hamot. The surface lot on that same block is not going to be any louder (and it’s not like Erie is some major city with the emergency hospital activity constantly going). But I've never lived right down there to know if it's really that loud. But having lived in Manhattan right near St. Luke's Roosevelt hospital, the sirens just became background city noise.
I was actually talking about the 5 lots stretching from Sass to Holland along 3rd, so from where the old rehab hospital is on 3rd and Sass, the lot immediately east of it, the lot behind 300 State, the lot immediate north of Modern Tool, and the lot surrounding St. Patrick’s. If downtown is going to revitalize and connect with the bayfront, these lots absolutely need to be developed.