Originally Posted by
Spartan
You just glossed right over the specifics of the deal. Why is the government engaged in things like this? It does not make sense. Valir Rehab is at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of people we would actually go out of our way to help move downtown, and I don't mean that we don't want them, that's why I say at the bottom of the list we actually do want. We have such staggering lack of development in residential and especially retail, those are the things that city activity needs to focus on drawing. Raze sites for those kinds of developments. Don't raze sites and then give a sweetheart deal to a rehab clinic because you can't get any housing prospects. What kind of sense does that make??
They awarded them the site, it seems, without even getting any idea what kind of development it will be. No architectural review, whatsoever. Just here you go, we like you're name, and we already know who you are, it's yours. That's an approach I wouldn't even want to see if it WAS housing, which, unless you need rehab for a very long time, suffice it to say this is not downtown housing......
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