Fast Company
So before all excitement this afternoon and the excitement over SandRidge’s plans for it’s campus makeover, a story about the project popped up online at Fast Company. A reader emailed me and made note of this quote from the story:
“We really messed up in the 1970s with urban renewal,” says Craig Tucker, a senior vice president at the commercial real estate firm Price Edwards. “We tore down buildings we should have kept, going with I.M. Pei plans that left us with generic ones.”
Later tonight I’ll post all the renderings and guest posts from those arguing for and against SandRidge Commons.
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The following quote is taken directly from the article you linked to, Steve.
“‘Downtown has nice open spaces, but they’re not particularly organized.’ By contrast, the new park will have restaurants open onto the plaza, on-site daycare for Sandridge employees, and enough furniture, shade, and privacy to stimulate traffic. Downtown needs it; the vacancy rate is still 27%.”
Does anyone else think this alleged park could take away traffic and attention from the upcoming MAPS III “Central Park”? I fear another new planned downtown park will steal glory from the other. Why congregate at one park when there’s a second, more intimate version, just blocks away?