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Nice idea, bad execution. The cross is out of proportional scale w/r/t the height of the horizontal cross in relation to the height and width of the bldg. The horizontal cross is slightly too high and lends a visual effect of being top heavy. It's location of being adjacent to an elevated freeway does not deter this effect, but rather enhances it, as most often viewers are moving directly through space towards the bldg. The paint job on the exterior is mostly indiscriminate over it's coverage of diverse materials from metal details to the masonry facade. It looks unprofessional.

I was just a little kid in the 80's but I remember going on a road trip in my dad's blue Oldsmobile. One of my earliest memories was driving through downtown and looking through the backseat window up in awe at the First Interstate Plaza (now the Wells Fargo Tower).

+1 The cloistered courtyard is the problem. These complexes were designed for young professionals in the boom years who were largely from the Midwest and Northeast and had college educations. Compared to the current tenants, they are pious monks to the architect who hypothetically is now tasked with designing for the unruly. There is no micro design solution on it's face, but it might be in the overall best interest of the city to allow a "staging" area for immigrants. Just a though..

Having been a patron to both bars mentioned in the thread, I did not find any difficulty finding parking within a couple blocks of the establishments on busy weekend nights. There is plenty of on street parking north and south of Fairview along Morgan in the neighborhood. Why does the code call for commercial use properties to have so much on site parking? It seems like prescriptive coding for suburbanization, which is good only if the area was to undergo a Haussmann type of recapitalization but I seriously don't think this area is a supertall candidate in any regard as is. The on street parking is a positive development for the pedestrian environment, and I find accounts of the parking problem disingenuous & more so a perceived problem by the neighborhood in order for them to stymie and control their neighbor's property.