This is not a tower-in-the-park typology they are proposing here, it's a much denser tower-on-podium plan. That it has a narrow strip of green between the buildings and the arterial roads it borders and a couple of public squares does not match the wide opens lawns and surface parking lots of typical of tower-in-the-park. Parking for the mall would go underground.I really don't understand why all these mall redevelopments don't do anything substantial with the property. I kind of got my hopes up when I saw the comprehensive plan, but it doesn't look like they're going to do anything with that. Are they just anticipating that all the car traffic is going to vanish, or are they hoping that the enclosed mall just rots away without street presence?
Also the towers look too busy and uninspired, and the "parks" don't look inviting either. The tower-in-the-park nonsense surrounding the mall should arguably be dealt with before anything happens here.
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