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Originally Posted by Myomi
No one has mentioned "suburban" when discussing this building for a very long time (in this thread it looks like since 2013). It's a bad urban project...period. Please cite where you see that this project has retail lining the entire base of the project...
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I'll try to address everything at once. First, I reviewed the entire thread before posting that, so that I could try to catch up on what this project entails. I saw comments tarnishing it with the "suburban" label.
I'm ignorant about the building process, architecture, and most other topics at the core of this forum. So I assumed that the fact that the entire first floor looks totally different from the upper floors (which look like normal residential construction) led me to assume that the first floor spaces would be for retail and/or office use. I'm disappointed to learn that this isn't the case.
How this is similar to older cities in the northeast, it's similar but different. In older cities you see block after block of old residential buildings, usually 3 to umpteen stories high, that are all one solid mass as if it were all one building. I'm not saying this to instruct you because you obviously know what you see in the northeast, so I'm just trying to describe what it is I'm referring to. If it has a name, let me know and I'll use it henceforth. I have no freaking clue how to refer to it.
So what I'm seeing in MR is that it's a solid mass of residential with at least a ground floor restaurant, which feels to me like a traditional urban type of development. Granted, it will be separate from any other buildings but by itself it nevertheless creates a bit of the effect I see in the northeast, which I prefer over the point towers with empty space between them.
Bear in mind that I was only expressing opinions based on vague impressions, a fair amount of ignorance, and a lot of preferences-of-the-moment. In other words, don't take my comments too seriously.