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Originally Posted by Biff
To me the area's in red below are the biggest gap/holes in our downtown that keep it from being a cohesive unit. If we work to fill these holes - which the Donald/St Mary and hopefully 285 Smith projects will start, I feel that downtown will just have manageable holes (single empty lot as opposed to a wasteland like in red).
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I agree. It would be nice to see a concerted effort by the appropriate development agencies to have those red boxes filled in with more new construction. Obviously it depends on some extent on the landowners and their intentions, but there are public bodies who own some of the parcels and they might be able to exert some influence there.
Eliminating the huge swaths of parking would go a long way to changing the overall desolate feeling of some parts of downtown.
On a somewhat related note, has there been any movement on the courtyard space next to the Pantages Theatre? It would be great to finally see something happen there.