Saving SandRidge Commons
Nick Roberts floats an idea: preserve the buildings marked for demolition, and relocate the “cubist” structure planned for 120 Robert S. Kerr to Broadway, adjacent to the India Temple building.
This is especially useful for the proposed ground-level restaurant, which presumably would draw a lot more foot traffic on Broadway than it ever would on Robert S. Kerr; but more to the point, streetwalls on both Broadway and Robinson are reinforced, and sightlines, ostensibly a major issue for SandRidge, are actually improved.
And there’s this:
An unpopular, controversial $100 million project becomes a well-loved $50 million project, an asset and a jewel for downtown. Sometimes less is more.
Emphasis in the original.
I think I could get behind this proposal without even breathing hard.
NR »
21 June 2010 · 1:51 am
Hey Charles, thanks for the mention. I got an interested but polite denial email from Rob Rogers on this. I would be interested in seeing if one of my friends with a legitimate CAD software on their computer could turn this into a real alternate proposal that Preservation OK could present at the next BoA meeting.
Again, thanks for following this on your blog. We can use all the support we can get with the powers that be we’re up against. Sorry I don’t check in on your blog more often..considering this post was written a month ago. I’ll try more.
Nick