Last fall, when County bureaucrats were trying to razzle-dazzle voters into lending them $33 million to renovate their hockey arena (subsidized minor-league hockey being apparently the last, tenuous raison d'être for the existence of county government), they publicized these architectural renderings of a newly-renovated Civic Center:
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But there'll be some paintings on the concrete wall. And some brick.
Let's hope for better lighting, bike racks, benches and a couple of drinking water fountains.Bike/ped friendly please. Also a drop off point for elders and carpoolers would be nice.
As a member of the planning board, I agree. However, it was beyond our purview to require luster here. And, when I asked the developers after a meeting, I was informed the above graphic (which included meeting/function space in the in-fill space over the overhangs) was done by an entirely different firm, before the current firm was selected. If that helps explain anything a bit...
The front door is really the centerpiece here, and not too much could be done with limited funding. Ultimately, I think a new structure in Bayside would have been far better, but this is what we get.
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