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Originally Posted by jsbrook
The original design is great. But it's not clear to me it was ever financially realistic (or at least never realistic for Pearl's plans). The cynic in me thinks it easily could have been a bait and switch and put out there to get buy-in and support from key constituencies. Without the intention to ever build anything resembling that. Would not be unheard of...
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I think you hit the nail on the head. The Art Deco rendering of the original apartment tower pairs so well with the Boyd Theater, but is also devoid of the retail element that will bring in the big bucks, I think it was just a red herring. It was a cheap way (one rendering, a relatively simple one) to quell the anxiety of preservationists paired with iPics' implication that they'd provide a movie theater to quell the cinema buffs. Then, boom, as soon as the wrecking ball hit, switch it out for the real plan. There's no doubt in my mind that this was the plan all along. Just a political way to push it through. It's not unheard of at all.