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But then what do we do with an empty convention center, and empty county administration building, and an empty Public Auditorium? It seems to me that if we can replace the old convention center with a new one on the same site, it will make it easier to find uses for those other two spaces, because they can be complementary uses to the convention center. With the Tower City site, we will end up with a huge amount of empty facility in the middle of downtown that won't be easy to find new uses for.
Also, I think the Tower City Convention Center will make for a hideous western face for Downtown. Think about it- truck loading docks and ramping 150 feet in the air? It will overwhelm the "Riverfront Park" they are proposing as well, and require a whole lot of road reconfiguration, ramping, and possibly road widening right by the main highway entrance to downtown. I think it will be a traffic mess. Combined with the possible Northern Alignment for the Innerbelt reconstruction that section of downtown will be a concrete nightmare.
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