archited
Senior Member
^^^^ That may be true, but I have to imagine that their property values would soar if the adjacent community had markets, restaurants, event-spaces, etc. and they would feel greatly enhanced from a safety perspective if there were people in the final solution. Their complaints about a next-door minor-league ball-park have not been very vocal (to say the least). If a festival atmosphere reigned the power-plant "scape" wouldn't it be better than what exists there now -- a water treatment plant, a power substation, and a scarred landscape. Again, I refer to Jane Jacob's tome -- "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" that purports that the existence of many eyes on the street leads to a "safe" community. Currently, the City has no measure of this in their underwhelming "feels-like there-is-a-river-closeby" solution.