tangent
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Say it is part of the original structure, how difficult would it be to take out the K Mart, expose the skeleton of the building and maybe put in a pedestrian section of Canal st. You could put smaller units each side of the new street and leave it covered or partially covered.
This way you have a nice feature breaking up a boring block, you expose more of Assembly's history, you have a pedestrian link to the new hotel at assembly edge or what ever it's called, and you have a covered public space where you could hold farmers markets or whatever year round.
If it became popular it might speed up the development of the parking lots and create a proper finished canal street.
I very much like the idea. It seems like a very natural next step redevelopment wise. Just raze K-Mart and extend the Assembly Row city block type development through where KMart used to be. And I like the pedestrian extension of Canal St straight through to connect it all together more seamlessly from a walkability perspective (don't have to call it Canal S if it is pedestrian only, but I get the idea) .
Just need to do a bit of math and make the investment work. But they have a pretty good idea of what they can do there. And they should have the now bootstrapped cash (or credibility with investors) to provide the capital make it continue to happen.