"i've seen more human blood spilled there than i have on tv."
wonderful prose. complete crap, unless you've never watched tv in your life; but great prose.
i don't know anyone against "revitalizing" the market. where people differ is in what that should mean. so let me turn it around: why do you think we should build a little mini-suburb there, complete with ruby tuesdays, olive garden, and boring structures with 25 year design lifetimes?
Having looked at the study it's got a lot of great maps that really illustrate what we're all talking about. It seems to me you could divide the area up and maintain wholesale, improve the look of the place, and keep & improve some of the market structures. I did this 20-minute photoshop hack to illustrate.
Thanks. I may send something similar to the planning committee as my public comment since I missed the meeting. It handles two problems I always harp about: 1) the area is uninviting to residents on the other side of Florida. Plow under the gas stations (I know...environmental concerns) and put attractive homes there and re-do the intersections to be more safe. 2) the buildings are ugly. Actually as Inked has been saying and as the study highlights, those buildings have some nice features. Renovate them to bring out that character and convert them using Eastern Market as a model. This would also preserve wholesale--something the city needs--but divides the residents from it. A plan like this would be exceedingly difficult to push through given the mix of the owners of the land but maybe with strong leadership and the right incentives.....and the spectre of the alternative being "do nothing" or "McNewTown" could get a deal done.
You know, although I freely admit that there are far superior options to a "little mini-suburb there, complete with ruby tuesdays, olive garden, and boring structures with 25 year design lifetimes," the sad fact is that I would much rather have that than what is there now. Hands down. No contest. Would I prefer another Barracks Row? Of course. But I don't see that happening. I'd rather the developers break out the "cookie cutter" than see the market continue in its current state.
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there is a 'downtown market'. eastern market. revitalize that, and fix the florida market.
florida market needs revitalization.
sorry folks.
the place is a mess. i don't care what anyone says. i live next to it and deal with it every day.
it's easy to say that it's cute when you don't deal with it.
i've seen more human blood spilled there than i have on tv.
bye bye old florida market. hello something new.
"i've seen more human blood spilled there than i have on tv."
wonderful prose. complete crap, unless you've never watched tv in your life; but great prose.
i don't know anyone against "revitalizing" the market. where people differ is in what that should mean. so let me turn it around: why do you think we should build a little mini-suburb there, complete with ruby tuesdays, olive garden, and boring structures with 25 year design lifetimes?
Having looked at the study it's got a lot of great maps that really illustrate what we're all talking about. It seems to me you could divide the area up and maintain wholesale, improve the look of the place, and keep & improve some of the market structures.
I did this 20-minute photoshop hack to illustrate.
that's pretty cool, rob!
i vote for rob to run the market study! i think you've shown that there are some viable alternatives to a "strip mall".
you should send it to the study folks....
Thanks. I may send something similar to the planning committee as my public comment since I missed the meeting.
It handles two problems I always harp about: 1) the area is uninviting to residents on the other side of Florida. Plow under the gas stations (I know...environmental concerns) and put attractive homes there and re-do the intersections to be more safe. 2) the buildings are ugly. Actually as Inked has been saying and as the study highlights, those buildings have some nice features. Renovate them to bring out that character and convert them using Eastern Market as a model.
This would also preserve wholesale--something the city needs--but divides the residents from it.
A plan like this would be exceedingly difficult to push through given the mix of the owners of the land but maybe with strong leadership and the right incentives.....and the spectre of the alternative being "do nothing" or "McNewTown" could get a deal done.
You know, although I freely admit that there are far superior options to a "little mini-suburb there, complete with ruby tuesdays, olive garden, and boring structures with 25 year design lifetimes," the sad fact is that I would much rather have that than what is there now. Hands down. No contest.
Would I prefer another Barracks Row? Of course. But I don't see that happening. I'd rather the developers break out the "cookie cutter" than see the market continue in its current state.
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