The record could not be ANY clearer as to what works, and what does not. If the city ruins Park Ave. by taking down its three currently blighted buildings, we can be assured of more of the same.
The Statler block is the ONE demolition parcel that at least has imminent hope of a less-than-spectacular redevelopment, and even that is inching along notwithstanding the Mayor's best efforts. There are just too many well-located development parcels to choose from, and even if downtown/midtown really catch fire and everything goes well, we are talking several decades before we run out of room...perhaps our lifetimes actually. There is no justification to wipe Albert Kahn and Louis Kamper works off the map so that more land can be "freed up" for "redevelopment." It's laughable and it retards our growth and growth potential; a definitive change of course needs to come right now in relation to the Park Ave. Building's fate.
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