"From the beginning of the Garvin study, there was a clear understanding that the entire area is ripe for development," said Angelo Fuster, a Sembler spokesman. "There's been no development here for many, many years. It's valuable property."

Not for long. Another generic, treeless, unpleasant strip mall and office park hell.

With no fucking trains.

It's disgusting. The only marginal ray of sunlight is that at least it's inside the perimeter. I do support people staying ITP. I just hate the way these developments are executed. They strip the land to it's foundation in order to ease the grading and then after building they plant a token number of small, scrub trees that can't and won't grow to replace what was there before (can't have the roots fucking up our roads!)

Taken together, the two projects would turn the once-sleepy, suburban neighborhood into one of the region's premier shopping and office hubs, with almost as much retail as Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza combined.

I love this "sleepy, suburban neighborhood" despite it's already substantial traffic problems because it's got lots of trees and not a lot of noise or sunlight. They could be redeveloping the ever more pointless Loehmans plaza, but instead they're gonna cut down all the trees behind it.

Fuck this city, I'm out of here.