urbanlife

Such a lonely tallest tower photo

That isn't going to happen, we were much better off being a leader in global trade. Now we will isolate ourselves and make everything cost more. Any manufacturing jobs that come back will be automated and there is so much that still would need to come from other countries that these tariffs are going to make it more costly to do. The worst part is that we are ruining relationships that will take generations to repair. Our former allies are probably never going to trust us again and we will never be a global leader like we once were. Some parts of the country will be able to sustain itself, but a lot of the country will continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate. All because we elected a conman to be a president as he turns the country into an authoritarian nation.

Such an ugly building, and it is sad that so many of those small buildings are gone

I'm with you on this, I also don't like this desire to preserve the layout of the mall when it would be much easier to do a blank slate for much of it and block it out like a real urban area. This almost gives suburban vibes with a tall-ish building here and there.

So it will become a glorified strip mall, that seems like such a waste of all that property.

Actually, they just need three more to fill their punch card and get one free!

Or it will end up being Walgreens

Norfolk would have been such a different city had all that was torn down still existed today.

Is this a typo or did they really add an "O?" I was excited about what was gonna happen west of the town center, they even had a great architecture firm involved from the pacific northwest that would have designed an iconic cluster of towers, which would have been so much better than a strip mall. It is a shame that so many developers like Michael Sifen are so shortsighted that they can't see the long term benefit of building onto this urban district. Good thing about a strip mall, its always easy to tear down and redevelop.

I honestly thought the town center would have caused a number of residential and mixed use highrise developments to happen around that area.

Looks like a decent building added to the area.

It's mind boggling that they aren't building a new office tower and residential tower, at least right now. It's odd for them to look at those numbers and be like "nah, we're good, no need to build any more."

Heck, just building more light rail in Norfolk and any surrounding city that wanted to be connected to it would be amazing for the city and make it much more attractive to live in.

I love this stage of construction, so many possibilities for the building until they start putting on the cladding.

This is such a crazy then and now for me because the 1968 photo was 10 years before I was born and it looks like a 1930 photo of the city. So basically much of what makes up the present day skyline was built in my lifetime (obviously some of them happened in that 10 years before I was born.)