Bohemian Embassy's marketing strategy was criticized throughout the entire process. Sure, it appeals to a lot of yuppies but I still feel as if the local arts community was exploited in some ways.
Are you kidding...the local "arties" had way more fun poking fun at it, than the "yuppies" had doing whatever it is they do.
BTW....there is no such thing as "Yuppies" any more.
The entire triangle is a dead zone, making that stretch of Queen a one-sided street. Ok...the marketing was cringingly goofy, but that just gave the superior feeling "arties" yet another excuse to keep up the "Drake you hoe" routine.
Do you really think this project, with its sympathetic materials and street massing is inferior to what was there? What's next...fight to keep the car wash as a historical "artsy west queen west" cultural institution?
I don't love everything going on there, and it's a shame about some of the low-rent artists being victims of inevitable change...but there really is no-one to blame in the gentrification process...embrace, put up with, or move on.
And yea...I'm one of those working stiffs who used to drink at the old Gladdy with the old guard in the Melody lounge, playing pool, drinking way too much cheap draft and reluctantly listening to C&W when Broncos opened. But I'm the first to admit I actually prefer what's happened since then. I believe the Drake was called Papa Gino's back then, and had about as much character as a Coffee Time.
