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Old Posted Aug 21, 2014, 3:36 PM
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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten View Post
Because it was value engineered to a 4 story retail complex? This has changed pretty minimally with what was first proposed. Shorter and slight design change. The old one was pretty Vegas-y too..
Vegas-y isn't terrible, but a dead mall in the middle of the city center is.

You could go back to the beginning with the Jahn design if you wanted the original non-downscaled plan, but that was cancelled for macro-economic reasons, not value engineered.

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