The quote is from the developers' website, where an unnamed West Side resident compares Near North to Liberty Lofts, the condos in the former GT Products factory downtown.
As Margaret Schankler pointed out at Planning Commission last week, it's quite a stretch to compare the two projects:
- There have been factories on the Liberty Lofts site for a century.
- There have been one- and two-family homes on the NeNo site for a century.
- Liberty Lofts occupies an entire city block.
- NeNo would demolish 8 houses in what is now an entirely residential block.
- Liberty Lofts' addition is more than 100 feet from the nearest neighbors.
- NeNo would be 12-24 feet from the nearest neighbors.
- Liberty Lofts is in the Downtown zone.
- NeNo would be in the North Central Neighborhood, two blocks from Downtown.
It seems like something on the scale of townhouses - like Ashley Mews makes the most sense in terms of scale for this location. Also,the contemporary look of this developmnet seems a little strange and not similar to the neighborhood. I am not the design poice, but that is my feeling. I like the pircure of the street view. The more information that gets published about this project the better.
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