stlpcsolutions wrote:It is good to see the building will be near metrolink, however, why get excited? This just means that people are tired of the traffic and got a clue. I do not see how this is worth celebrating? Wow, people got a clue, its about time.
This thread has clearly merged two projects: the recently proposed 20-story building / six story apartment building across from metro and the Crescent, the nine story building on carondelet plaza that is under construction. In terms of both projects, I'm am excited about them not because of their location, but because they are URBAN. They promote the lifestyle that everyone on this website loves. As Expat predicted, they are bragging about being Link-ed, as they should be. These people are not just going to be old ladies like everyone assumes (some might be, but even if that was the case, everyone becomes old eventually, and everyone needs a place to stay). They are going to be people who want to be able to walk to dinner or work. They will support local UCITY restaurants and businesses just down Forsyth as well as places in the Loop or CWE, or any other place that is nearby or any place that the Link will take them, particularly downtown. They will be outside walking their dogs and creating vibrancy in the neighborhood. There will be ground-floor retail in both of these projects that folks like myself in UCITY will be able to walk to and enjoy, thus encouraging those already in the URBAN setting of the adjacent established neighborhoods to actually live life in the way their neighborhood was intended to allow them. Most importantly, the people in the 400 or so new units won't be living in SouthCo, WestCo, StCharles, etc. in cul-de-sac subdivisions. While I'm not as excited about this project as I would have been provided it had been downtown, I know that if the city limit was a mile or two further west, not a single person on this board would've objected or criticized, in the same way that nobody would have objected if it was proposed in the CWE or Midtown. Just because Clayton isn't as urban as St. Louis, there is no reason we shouldn't let good projects like these accomplish that. Cities aren't born urban, they become urban. And as Bastiat said, residential projects in this area, although not in the metro-east, are helping to shift the population center back east. Anything that supports and embraces public transit is a postive thing, this is no exception.
I apologize for the lack of brevity.
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