Lets go on a lil tourski of what they did a bang(bus)*cough... bang em up job on and what they could have done a little better and still can.
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The way the small brick buildings make up the street wall and the mid rise building is behind it makes it look like there was an existing street fabric/street wall already, and they fit the mid rise building in behind it later on. A little bit like the way the littlest bar is built around. It has that effect although these are all new buildings.
When looking at it from the front (when finished) it will look like this has always been here and the mid rise was added later like the way that cities organically grow over time.
This building across the street looks good with its dark masonry and bump out windows.
This is just one example and the majority of Assembly row is done very well. Im just posting this as something to contrast what Im showing below against. They did it very right above, and below they could have done a much better job.
Now where it gets weird. They have a road (Great River Road) that goes along the back side of the garage next to the train tracks. For some reason they left it completely blank, with ugly slanted garage floors, and stilts for the tower above it.
What they should have done is what they did on Foley st. and put condos on the outside face of the garage.
Here is Foley st. Theres a garage behind these brick buildings.
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Heres the other end of Foley st.
Now you can see where it transfers from the brick building to expose the garage:
You can still kind of see it but now you see how it has just turned into a huge hulking garage facing towards the water that people on the other side have to look at.
The stilts for the building above that they could have brought the facade to ground level and blended it in between brick condos that they could have built here.
At the beginning of Great River rd. you would have to build the condos inside the garage or knock some of it back, but further down you even have open space in front of the garage where you could fit some more buildings.
Finally at the other end of the garage it wraps back around and turns back into masonry buildings on the street wall.
As you can see in the pic above there is still room in front of these buildings to add some condos/street level retail to the back side of the garage. At the other end I think they should try to put some in the garage or last resort knock some of the garage back like the Govt Ctr garage and build some condos there. At street level yea you would have train tracks across the st. but who cares theres already a road there might as well make it usable, then above that you have elevation where you could see over the tracks and have a view of the river and casino etc... across the river.
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Here you can see how the garages fit into the picture and the river is also across the street. You can also walk under the train tracks under the bridge and they could even build a park over here. They could also build a pedestrian bridge at the end of Foley st. over the tracks if need be.