Quote Originally Posted by architect5311 View Post
This project reminds me of the Sheraton Century Center development. I don't like the city block sized 3 story building base with the poor integration of the towers, appear to be a stuck on afterthought.

I like this buildings integration of building base of retail, parking and tower...
See, something like this would be nice at the Stage Center site. The office space portion is only 13 stories atop a 7 level parking garage, and 1 level or retail, but designing it like this gives it good height of 21 stories. If Rainey Williams would do this type of design, we could be looking at 16 story office space atop a 8 level parking garage, with 2 levels of retail. This would give us nice height of 26 stories. It would also leave more room on the rest of the parcel to develop into green space/plaza for employees, and additional land for another high-rise.

Again, it comes down to how this will be designed...ADG did a bad job on the conceptual site plan, and I think that's what most of us are basing this development off of. Hopefully, if they get a good firm to design this project like Pickard Chilton, Boka Powell, Zimmer Gunsul, or locally Rand Elliot, this project might end up pretty darn good.