This was a big screw up. By providing the dog park with the absolute bare minimum amount of space, they inadvertently created one of the district's only cozy, intimate, human-scaled places. This little spot will be even better when the trees grown up. The exposed wood does a great job of helping frame the space. Clearly not meeting the objective of providing an expanse of paving stone and endless walls of glass.
Is there any chance they switch up phase 2 and make it residential, instead of another commercial building? Aware that neither market is great at the moment...
Don't know the financials but live/work lofts in a new mass timber building on the waterfront would certainly be of some interest to buyers.... one day.