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It would have been far better, imho, that they had left the storefronts and left St. James in it's urban context. Much in the way that Holy Trinity is enhanced by it's semi-hidden location.
Obviously; and that's the way the paradigm shifted after the "urban renewal" era which saw schemes like Independence Mall take place--a more "Jane Jacobs" than "Robert Moses" approach to the historical-preservation question...