What the hell is with Detroit? Every other major city in the country manages to have a central core of old and new buildings without having to have a dedicated parking lot adjacent to each one of them. Even cities without good public transport.There are several parking decks within a block or two of the Penobscot. But, no, a beautiful building like the Penobscot, which would be a central civic landmark anywhere else, can't possibly be viable without its own parking lot [[despite having stood there without one for over 80 years).
Can't people here walk a couple of blocks, like people do in, say, every other major city on earth? Or does everyplace have to have valet parking next to the door so that no one is ever more than a couple of steps from their oh-so-precious vehicles, and no one is threatened with more than a couple of seconds of weather? They don't even have that in Anchorage. Does everyplace here really have to be modeled on the ideal of the suburban shopping mall? What the hell ever happened to our urbanness and our urban life?
Sometimes, just every now and again, I wonder why I came back to this stupid stuck in the '60s and '70s place.
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