The City That Builds: Alliance Housing
Check out the funky new condo building in the works next to UConn. Development is still contingent on city approval and involves moving the church rectory that currently stands on the location. This project has been back and forth though for the past 10 years. The last design was shot down for it's out of character Jenga like look. If this happens it will be another development in the line of downtown churches selling land to developers in order to stay finacially solvent. Canterbury Green was built years ago in a church parking lot and Atlantic Center and the Ritz Carlton are both tied to land owned by churches. I think it's a win-win for both institutions when it comes together.
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Ew! That Jenga thing looks terrible, like it's crumbling down.
It seems like this whole city is under construction. I hope all these buildings will translate into more people which will translate into more fun for all of us.
More people = more traffic.
Highier density housing can actually have the opposite effect. As residental & commericial develop together you end up with people being able to walk to work, stores, dinner etc. Suburban sprawl is the real culprit behind traffic.
Maybe a lot of the people who live there will take the train to work and not clog up Wash Blvd by 95.
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