No condescension intended. Jeez, don't be so thin skinned.

I think it's a beautiful design. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. [[And I differ with Gistok insofar as having below ground parking is far superior than surface parking.)

Reasonable people differ.

I am pretty familiar with downtown development and there was only one other project "competing" for the site and that proposed developer had no money, had never developed anything, and could never have even come close to developing the site. It had small hotel, parking and another use that I can't remember. He had one financially capable partner who wanted to construct the 700 car parking garage on the site; I know him.