Quote Originally Posted by motz View Post
I would love to see this area be more than three old restaurants that seemed to change hands at least once a year and a sea of chainlink-bound parking lots. The area has tons of potential, even if they threw up one parking garage to make up for the lost sea of parking. Glad to see GM snatch up a few more, I imagine they will be more proactive than the speculator crowd.
Isn't it amazing that development seems to occur when conditions are 'right'.

I really doubt GM's 'grand design' was a bunch of surface parking lots.

An optimist sees a surface parking lot as a potential building [[or at worse a parking garage). And it is easier to develop a surface parking lot than a bad building and certainly some industrial site.

Who wants to bet that in say 10 years that 1/2 of the surface parking lot spaces [[in downtown from the river to say those parking spaces at the arena site) will be gone?