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What would you like to see there instead? I could be happy with something taller and less 90s looking, but I'd still vote for a coffee shop over-looking the intersection.I have no issue calling this terrible. And if we converted this to an age restricted website, I would use adjectives that were less kind.
I would like anything that used better materials, was better designed and amounted to better architecture. Anything.
A coffee shop won't change the whole architecture, that's true. I guess I feel the whole square is ugly, so I don't care so much about the exterior, but I really like the open middle with all the escalators going off on different angles.
I get where you're coming from re: the coffee shop. Point being, the shops lining the windows should be using the windows, not covering them up and deadening them. There also piles of cheap signage on this thing, tons of battleship gray cladding, and copious useless doodadery in the form of fake fans that are supposed to give it an industrial chic look (but which just give it an industrial cheap look). A thoughtful recladding combined with an internal reworking of spaces that used the windows properly could do a lot to improve this building and lift it out of disaster and embarrassment status.
I hope a more local & interesting eatery ends up where Milestones was, but I realize that's unlikely. I didn't love Milestones, but I did love the view.
Milestones was recently sold to Foodtastic. They (Foodtastic) also recently bought Shoeless Joes.
Ugh, what a bunch of crappy corporate chains.
So they're going to have Sankofa Specials on their menu?
