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That's exactly how it has failed. One purpose was to illustrate that you could build affordable and liveable urban apartment buildings in high number and high q
by throwaway2245 6y ago
That's exactly how it has failed. One purpose was to illustrate that you could build affordable and liveable urban apartment buildings in high number and high quality.
You reporting 50 years later that you wish you could live there (I would also love to), illustrates that this didn't happen.
- betaby 6y agoWe can say the same about nearby 'vanilla' condo buildings https://goo.gl/maps/7qm79E799kUKUCPFA https://goo.gl/maps/7qm79E799kUKUCPFA Old port is just prohibitively expensive in general.
- nmeofthestate 6y agoI think the point is there'd be places like this in more affordable non-sought-after locations, had the vision been a success.
- folkrav 6y agoThe area is just expensive as hell, final. Some of these cubes are horribly dated, but just the fact it's in the Old Port makes the price shoot way up.
- andromeduck 6y agoThats more to do with zoning and permitting.
- freeone3000 6y agoI mean, you can say that, but, it's all mixed-use highrises around there. There are new thirty-story buildings going up all the time. I don't think there's much more that could be done policy-wise, it's just a desirable area -- and there's condos half the price ten minutes away by metro.