Very exciting that two very important and large projects that have been in the works are a go! I believe construction has actually already started on both but two new nice looking parks downtown with one on the water and one at Fifth Third Field plus hundreds of more jobs downtown is great! The picture of Promedica Park looks fantastic next to what will be the renovated steam ship plant for thei headquarters. The area around the stadium is really taking off!
http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2015...-deal.html
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/03...ts-OK.html
(04-29-2015 06:28 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote: [ -> ]Very exciting that two very important and large projects that have been in the works are a go! I believe construction has actually already started on both but two new nice looking parks downtown with one on the water and one at Fifth Third Field plus hundreds of more jobs downtown is great! The picture of Promedica Park looks fantastic next to what will be the renovated steam ship plant for thei headquarters. The area around the stadium is really taking off!
http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2015...-deal.html
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/03...ts-OK.html
the renovated steam ship plant That would be the renovated steam plant that at one time supplied heat for downtown buildings.
(04-29-2015 06:28 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote: [ -> ]Very exciting that two very important and large projects that have been in the works are a go! I believe construction has actually already started on both but two new nice looking parks downtown with one on the water and one at Fifth Third Field plus hundreds of more jobs downtown is great! The picture of Promedica Park looks fantastic next to what will be the renovated steam ship plant for thei headquarters. The area around the stadium is really taking off!
http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2015...-deal.html
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/03...ts-OK.html
Hard to argue the Hens Park and what they're doing and planning but to me, the Promedica screams big-box store and the facading on the steam plant completely takes away the point. It neither compliments what is already there nor brings it to a modern. I would think it should do one or the other. Instead, it looks like a Japanese Pachinko parlor tacked onto a warehouse. Not a bad look on a pachinko parlor but for a living space, it's barely this side of whore house.
I don't like the park plan but I can't come up with something my mind prefers either. It seems designed for traffic rather than gathering. Except a tiny part of the S-W space, it has little opportunity for multiple use and doesn't look like a particularly inviting place to hang out.
I hope there's some rethink on those designs, they pale in comparison to Owens-Corning, Edison, Seagate, even the old Federal Bldg and really, just about everything short of the Fiber Glass Tower and the parking garages. Every angle and every concept I've seen on it looks like crap.
It really boggles that they'd want to spend millions to give the view of the river to parked cars rather than the offices, atriums, meeting rooms and other gathering places? lol I think maybe I'll look at some photos of what they do in cities with impact. I don't recall a lot of parking garages given the primary river view.