Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
I agree. Modern retail is generally disgusting, and Hall Rd is about as ugly as it gets. Super cheap-looking and soul-crushing.

But it doesn't seem to bother the masses.
...or the people who excuse such generic architecture.



Here's a tidbit--from 2004. It's amazing how little people refuse to learn in eight years. You guys have fun deluding yourselves in your plastic Schaumburg--Michigan is collapsing around you regardless of how defiant you become.

the way southeast Michigan is growing will either bankrupt communities or lead to the same sort of massive dislocations in the suburbs that Detroit and other cities have already experienced because of crumbling roads and failing infrastructure. This summer SEMCOG published a study that said the region would need $70 billion to maintain its transportation networks until 2030. The agency said only $40 billion is available from current tax funds, meaning that if nothing changes in the financing picture for roads and transit, roughly half the need will not be met.


An earlier SEMCOG study found that serving the region’s water and sewer needs would cost $52 billion over the next generation. Most of the money to meet that need is unaccounted for, and fully 40 percent of the estimate SEMCOG made is to bring water and sewer lines to spur home and business construction in places nobody now lives and are still open fields, forests and wetlands.


“SEMCOG is bleeding us dry,” Barwin says. “We are $30 billion in the red as far as our current transportation infrastructure, and $60 billion if you count water and sewer. That’s a $2 billion per year deficit path these guys are leading us down. And they are supposed to be the experts.”
http://www2.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6627