Not afraid to agree: 29th St sucks!
A rouge letter writer named Doug Richards says it all today in the Colorado Daily:
What the Colorado Daily, Boulder City Council, 29th St. developers and their tenants like Laudisio failed to anticipate, is that for thousands of Boulder county citizens, shopping centers are dinosaurs, and with little exception, those citizens avoid them like the proverbial plague. Twenty Ninth St., or whatever it’s called, is no different, except that it is perhaps one of the poorest designed and ugliest complexes to ever disgrace the city of Boulder.
Looking north from Arapahoe Ave, one is assaulted by the sight of the monstrously ugly Home Depot, a huge wall of brick (rather than south facing glass to collect the daily delivery of free solar energy) behind which the new Wild Oats store stands empty, and a corridor called 29th St. that leads one to an unwelcoming, utterly soul-less vista of the usual corporate crap, before redeeming itself with a handy escape route out to Canyon Boulevard.
Please excuse this letter writer’s vehemence, but good lord, what part of innovation and imagination do the people responsible for that thing not understand?
I must have missed an article that precipitated this letter, but I think I can easily guess that it went something like, “Sales at the new 29th St Mall are far lower than expected….” As Richards point out, no shit! Despite the fawning and glowing by the city council, the papers and other corners of the city establishment, there is absolutely nothing remotely compelling about that project. More shopping? Yipeee!!
