From the fourth floor of the Liberty Square Parking Structure, the view of spring trees to the northwest – Sunset Hill – is beautiful over trees and buildings of First Baptist Church, even though view is limited by 411 Lofts and Sloan Square apartments.
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Strictly for the sake of clarity, when you say the “view is limited by 411 Lofts and Sloan Square apartments.” Is that intentionally portraying those buildings in a negative light? My interpretation of the post is that the buildings are lowering the quality of an otherwise pristine view. Maybe I’m wrong in my reading. If I am correct, I would like to say that it seems silly to criticize large apartment buildings for blocking a view from on top of a large parking structure.
Shoot. Now I have to figure out how to link to this exchange as an example of My City.
@1 Ben Connor Barrie
My comment was simply about the view. When I look out of my mom’s apartment in Sloan Square, the parking building itself is hugely ugly – much more so that 411 or Sloan Square. For all its ugliness, however, the Liberty Square structure is open to the public – anyone can take the elevator to the 4th floor & take in the view. If you have not done this, I recommend trying it out.
It is true that as we implement Carsten Hohnke’s Shared High-Level Vision of an 18 (or was it 26?) story Ann Arbor, such views shall disappear from almost all buildings, public or private.
@2 Bill Tozier
Pardon my unending ignorance, but what is My City?