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Originally Posted by cardeza
I don't see whats so bad about the 5000 Warrington project, I was expecting something much worse. It's standard issue new construction stuff.
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Location of the parking lot, right on the corner. This is the city, where how something interacts with with the street is important, not the subs where you can just drop in your factory designed apartment block anywhere and it doesn't matter.
I'm guessing the neighbors might not want a taller building looming over them, but this lot is large enough that the n/s elevation could have had a 2 or 3 story base with the upper floors set back.
The building is unfortunately the standard bull shit mix of metal panels and other crap and shows no care in acknowledging its neigborhood, but the placement on the site of these modern day soviet apartment blocks is what really stands out as being amazingly terrible.
Plus why so much parking? That's a transit rich location. Typical out of town developer who doesn't know and could care less about anything except the bottom line. These types should be required to pay a stupidity surtax, maybe around 15%.
IMO