nate ✨

bsky: cosmopinoy // marathoner, anthropologist, urban planner // Grinnell ‘19 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲🇵🇭

[nate ✨ @natecrail]

@aaron_lubeck @luusssso this context?!? it’s completely in context with other contemporary UChicago towers - there’s literally another TWBTA tower (Logan Center for the Arts) on the Midway…

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@chi_urbanist How much does the Griffin MSI take up?

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@GeorgesGraphs @AzizSunderji ^THIS.

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@rowyourboatyvr @YAppelbaum Nope, 20% are affordable:
- 4% of Phase 1 units exclusively for Squamish Nation members
- 16% are affordable rates set by CMHC

The rest are market rentals, so speculative investors cannot just buy them up.

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@BayAreaNewLibs it’s the epitome of greenwashing lmao

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@MikeMichae24475 @PippengerHarlo Also missing: “My economics illiterate”

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@Zdravko1979 @sam_d_1995 @ryderkessler Siffert's basic facts are correct, but they have the wrong takeaway and incomplete understanding of moving chains. + building affordable and luxury are not mutually exclusive.

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@JaMikeyMike @UrbanCourtyard yep!

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@thompspicks @UrbanCourtyard yep, looks pretty segregated to me! Many of the adjacent suburbs have the mid-rise Haussmann-esque buildings too - it doesn’t go to tall/sprawl immediately…

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@xurbanxcowboyx even Hong Kong preserves a few historic buildings

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@pradnelluru @sam_d_1995 @ryderkessler Assembly District 66 doesn’t include Brooklyn.

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@DraconicIntel @atlanticesque Rust belt cities like St. Louis or Detroit

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@tetrarosie wet bulb temps say otherwise

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@jburk3r No, monumental formal designs have their place in every city.

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

European style mid-rise residential is overrated and residential skyscrapers are underrated. Better shared amenities, better views, less road/street noise, more lifts, more efficient for transport planning, etc. To the extent they create street shading that is a *good* thing

[Michael Wiebe @michael_wiebe]

Condon: "Land value increases with density. Period."

Meanwhile, land values in a mansion-only district increased 5x. Landscape architects are not economists.

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@SaladBarFan They’re are a part of Carillon Parc which will have a hotel, condos, office, and retail too: https://t.co/5kgLg1Q6cc

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@therealpantonia @UrbanCourtyard yes! Carillon Parc is a mixed use development that will have office and retail eventually too.

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@saikatc SB79 doesn’t go in effect until July 1st…

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@SewerSocialism @mcmansionhell Tulare Lake is a much better comparison in this case - Corpus Christi is a man-made reservoir.