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Originally Posted by subterranean
I'm loving the AF project more and more each day. It's looking great with those new windows. My only concern is with the parking deck they want to put right on the riverfront. Haven't we learned our lesson?
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I know, really? I wrote one of our city council members about the garage asking whether it would at least be required to have groundfloor retail, and she wrote back telling me that she'd actually asked about it and was told that Accident Fund said that they couldn't get flood insurance since it was right on the river. Yeah, I call BS, too.
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Originally Posted by hudkina
Yeah, the windows look really great.
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It's funny, because the windows are almost exactly patterned off of the old ones. I have a hard time telling the difference besides them being new. I've seen one problem with them, though, on cloudy days. On cloudy days, since they aren't very reflective or colorful, they get about as dull, gray, and "flat"-looking as what little of the cloudy sky they do reflect. What I love most about the windows, though, is that they kept all of the existing window holes and created a few new ones at the base, and this will cut
way down on the cost of lighting. It's really kind of ironic, in a good way, that a building that used to burn coal for power will now use so little power, comparitively.