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Comments (14)
Other than the poor taste of the developer, what's the point of this post?
Is it financed by a negligent City Council through secret backroom deals or did the landowner simply decide to move into a different asset class?
Posted by Brian | February 19, 2010 8:45 AM
"Gopuran Building" rolls off the tongue.
I'm surprised they're building anything right now, but I guess student housing adjacent to the university probably still pencils out.
Posted by Snards | February 19, 2010 9:02 AM
You're going to see a lot of this in Eugene thanks to the University's decision to increase enrollment without building any more student housing. As Snards says, it pencils out beautifully. At this point, the UO doesn't even have enough dorms for freshmen.
Luckily, they do have a fabulous new arena on the way.
Posted by Roger | February 19, 2010 9:11 AM
I get coffee on this block every day. It's a characterless mix of ugly, poorly built one and two story buildings. I think this thing looks like a major improvement, I hope it starts a trend.
Posted by UO Matters | February 19, 2010 9:50 AM
Don't worry. Once the streetcars are in place everything will prosper!
Posted by RANZ | February 19, 2010 11:07 AM
I generally dislike condo bunkers, but commercial areas near the UO campus are due for some redevelopment, as UO Matters states. Obviously Eugene isn't Seattle, but the UW university district makes 13th seem like it's stuck in Animal House forever. It's glaring.
That being said, that style of building has no business there. Whatever happened to brick and mortar?
Posted by TKrueg | February 19, 2010 12:11 PM
It's a characterless mix of ugly, poorly built one and two story buildings. I think this thing looks like a major improvement.
You're confusing land use and zoning issues with aesthetics. They're entirely different issues.
Posted by John Rettig | February 19, 2010 1:02 PM
I've always wondered why so many armchair architects on here complain about urban development but hypocritically, they live in ticky-tacky, suburbia/subdivision tract style blah houses.
Thanks, but your living arrangements are more of a scourge on the built environment (and natural environment) than this edifice that is a whopping two-stories above the rest.
The issue is, the other buildings were probably zoned to be no more than 2 stories max "back in the day" per municipal regulation, so that's why the other buildings are so low-slung.
Posted by ws | February 19, 2010 2:23 PM
"Built environment"? The latest "charrette." Oh so precious.
I'm sure a 4-story bunker on that lot is going to be the linchpin.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 19, 2010 2:35 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_environment
Posted by ws | February 19, 2010 4:48 PM
Oooooh, impressive. Does it have a Facebook page, too?
Posted by Jack Bog | February 19, 2010 4:50 PM
I just don't get people's issues with stuff like this.
Why aren't you criticizing the typical, ugly cluster apartments that are everywhere? .
I know which development I think looks worse (and functions worse, too).
Posted by ws | February 19, 2010 5:24 PM
WS: maybe because those typical ugly cluster apartments are not squeezed into existing neighborhoods, provide enough parking for all of its residents, and do not require massive subsidies to pencil out.
Posted by Anthony | February 19, 2010 5:34 PM
Actually, those ample parking spaces increase rent costs for the unsuspecting buyers (even though these will cost more than most units, it is more due to supply/demand/location than anything else).
Who said anything about subsidies? Where's this coming from?
Most other non-clustered apartments still offer parking options, too, but their building frontages face the street (with street trees, people walking, and other cool stuff) instead of a convection oven asphalt parking lot with people's beat up junkers.
I don't know what you're talking about in regards to "squeezed" in. Here's an apartment next to a single-family residence in Eugene That's quite pleasing and not even intrusive.
Would it be better to chop down the nice forest/farmland on the fringe of Eugene and put up cluster apartments instead (with ample parking, of course)? The hippies would not like that one.
Posted by ws | February 19, 2010 6:08 PM