by terminalfanatic
Love how every comment on the Central Terminal goes straight to talking about the neighborhood. Even more so are the people who say it's so bad HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE. I volunteered for the CTRC for 9 years and have been there almost every day of every month at every hour. And yet I'm still here. I've walked around the building outside at morning, evening and night...never been mugged, stabbed or murdered. I had an NS engineer tell me yesterday a story he heard of someone committing suicide by diving off the tower. When I told him there has NEVER BEEN A REPORTED DEATH in the building or on the property. He didn't believe me and spent 20 minutes trying to find the article to prove it. Needless to say he couldn't find it.
The people who say that even if it was renovated to apartments n such that they would still never live in that area don't understand how the concept would work. You wouldn't be parking on the plaza. You'd be parking under the plaza in the parking garage underneath (parking for over 500 vehicles). Then a walk to an elevator at the base of Curtiss Street that would take you directly to your floor where you'd live. You would go from your apartment directly to your car and never see the outside till you left. And I'm sure if someone truly invested the nearly 70 million to fix the building and renovate it to apartment and housing would consider such a thing as security for tenants.
But I'm an optimist and it doesn't cost anything to believe in such a cause.
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The people who say that even if it was renovated to apartments n such that they would still never live in that area don't understand how the concept would work. You wouldn't be parking on the plaza. You'd be parking under the plaza in the parking garage underneath (parking for over 500 vehicles). Then a walk to an elevator at the base of Curtiss Street that would take you directly to your floor where you'd live. You would go from your apartment directly to your car and never see the outside till you left. And I'm sure if someone truly invested the nearly 70 million to fix the building and renovate it to apartment and housing would consider such a thing as security for tenants.
But I'm an optimist and it doesn't cost anything to believe in such a cause.
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