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Old Posted Mar 15, 2022, 3:19 PM
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Originally Posted by CaptainJilliams View Post
I get that it's not perfect, but it's certainly better than what was there before and it brings more people/traffic to an area trying to make a covid comeback.
as i posted on the previous page:

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i think many us who survived the trauma of the "river north beige" attack back in the '00s are still a bit too shell-shocked from the unrelenting onslaught of all of those monumentally ugly vertical turds to get too worked up about yet another glass box.


i think anyone calling this project "a turd" is either too young to remember the '00s or wasn't paying attention back then.

this project is by no means a masterpiece, but it's adequate-enough background filler, not some unmitigated disaster of design.
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