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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot
I agree. I've been advocating for years that a permanent market (similar to Seattle's Pike Place Market) be developed at Seaholm. Nonetheless, I do realize that office space will ultimately increase the developer’s profit margin far more than our version of Pike Place.
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yeah... I was just discussing this o the Seaholm thread. A perhaps more parallel example would be Clevelands West side market ( really Ohio City). But Seaholm seems to big to be compared to either. The space has so much below and above what would be needed it doesn't seem feasible $ wise without the city subsiding it. Does it? I know it's moot now, but would that really work there? I don't feel generic retail would work there and that's the discussion I was prompting on the other thread.. Would that now just end up being a downtown mall that rarely works, especially not in Snow regions. It just seems that in order to make the $ work without the city having to subsidise it, that the space has to be better utilized vertiaclly inside the building. Do you know , or anyone if those plans have emerged? That being , how the space will be used.?
My other question, also moot now, Is if the space could have been better used at the Libray ....then maybe combined with other public uses?
I think it is sage to assume that there were serious $ discussions about all of this in deciding a plan that would keep the building and not have it be a $ burden on the city.