02-17-2013, 06:36 AM
By "modern buildings" do you mean more soulless sheet metal barns like Longs and the Malama Marketplace? They could be anyplace in the United States and have no local personality; Malama Marketplace didn't even bother to plan for planting strips and shade trees. It is just acres of hot asphalt stretching from one ugly bit of a strip mall to another. I sure hope the Bryson's build something that doesn't look like it was plucked from Anywhere USA, but instead put in something that reflects the history of our community. It is bad enough that the state uses every new development as an excuse to engineer ever more dangerous intersections, but to add insult to injury, our local developers keep building butt ugly complexes to house much needed commercial enterprises.
Cheap doesn't have to be ugly, and charming doesn't have to be expensive, but the builders and developers have to plan to build something that looks good.
Carol
Cheap doesn't have to be ugly, and charming doesn't have to be expensive, but the builders and developers have to plan to build something that looks good.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb