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Originally Posted by sti deede
I read the article where I found this building. This building only cost $145/sq. ft. that is really reasonable. That number includes the cost of the art installation. The building created a million usable sq. ft. so the overall cost was pretty high. I guess my questions are if they really needed this building, and does it function well for the people who inhabit it.
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Just because that building was reasonably priced per sq ft doesn't mean that the $50,000 (or whatever the cost of all the corporate art on that thing was) couldn't have been better spent say, replacing worn out stop signs or repainting crosswalks or something that might save lives.
And Austin... I feel you on SLO. It's the one reason I don't think I'll end up back there. That place consistantly wants to curb any and all progress. God forbid they spend all that money on the police presence and use it to keep the party safe, while making money hand-over-fist on tourism income.
They'd rather spend the money and keep people away so that half-dead old people can drive they're busted ass cars down the middle of Higuera St. with the right blinker on while making left hand turns from the middle lane. They want all the benefits of a big-name school, and a performing arts center, and a tourist trade, and up-scale shops... just as long as there are no people partaking in it.
Listen up retards, you can't be San Francisco, or Seattle, or San Diego without the people.