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In the article: Duke, Jacqueline. "Council backs revived downtown apartment project." 5 June 1985. Herald-Leader [Lexington]. 12 Nov. 2006.
"And last month, the council endorsed a $15 million housing bond issue for the Ben Ali Towers, a 12-story apartment complex to be built above the Ben Ali garage on Main Street."
Has this project been built? I can't recall a 12 story apartment complex of that size along Main Street... Seicer ( talk) ( contribs) 22:19, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
"In addition to rampant suburban growth, downtown Lexington is seeing a large building boom, with the revitalization of many historical structures and the construction of many new ones. Several new projects are taking advantage of now-disused tobacco warehouses along the South Broadway corridor. Others are utilizing infill techniques, filling in parking lots and low-density or out-of-character structures."
- The revitalization of historical structures, filling in of parking lots, low density development, etc are all examples of urban infill techniques. A simple rewording would correct any misinformation, but I wanted to get an opinion first. John Reaves 01:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Why the hell is the PNC bank building such a centerpiece of the cityscape section? It's not important in the least bit. I think that may indicate that someone from PNC has been influencing this page. The cityscape needs to begin with the 5th 3rd building and work it's way down. The PNC building that's referenced isn't even the tallest PNC building in the city. No encyclopedia article would ever be written this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.2.56 ( talk) 23:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Timothyjwood ( talk) 19:30, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
But that's not really the issue. No one has made any case for the encyclopedic value of the inclusion of this building in the article. It may have been significant but that needs to be substantiated and not simply assumed. Furthermore, it is not a major structure by any criteria that I can conjure. It is certainly neither more major nor historic than the first national building, the oldest high rise in the city as far as I am aware.
Again, it is also not simply that it follows the format of the article, the format is wrong. Compare this to the architecture section for Chicago. First sentence is the most historical high rise, and then it addresses the tallest buildings beginning with the tallest.
I think I've given ample time for any editors to address this issue. Unless someone can satisfy these concerns I am going to take the liberty of fixing the section to be more in line with the cityscape articles on other cities.
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In the article: Duke, Jacqueline. "Council backs revived downtown apartment project." 5 June 1985. Herald-Leader [Lexington]. 12 Nov. 2006.
"And last month, the council endorsed a $15 million housing bond issue for the Ben Ali Towers, a 12-story apartment complex to be built above the Ben Ali garage on Main Street."
Has this project been built? I can't recall a 12 story apartment complex of that size along Main Street... Seicer ( talk) ( contribs) 22:19, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
"In addition to rampant suburban growth, downtown Lexington is seeing a large building boom, with the revitalization of many historical structures and the construction of many new ones. Several new projects are taking advantage of now-disused tobacco warehouses along the South Broadway corridor. Others are utilizing infill techniques, filling in parking lots and low-density or out-of-character structures."
- The revitalization of historical structures, filling in of parking lots, low density development, etc are all examples of urban infill techniques. A simple rewording would correct any misinformation, but I wanted to get an opinion first. John Reaves 01:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Why the hell is the PNC bank building such a centerpiece of the cityscape section? It's not important in the least bit. I think that may indicate that someone from PNC has been influencing this page. The cityscape needs to begin with the 5th 3rd building and work it's way down. The PNC building that's referenced isn't even the tallest PNC building in the city. No encyclopedia article would ever be written this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.2.56 ( talk) 23:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Timothyjwood ( talk) 19:30, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
But that's not really the issue. No one has made any case for the encyclopedic value of the inclusion of this building in the article. It may have been significant but that needs to be substantiated and not simply assumed. Furthermore, it is not a major structure by any criteria that I can conjure. It is certainly neither more major nor historic than the first national building, the oldest high rise in the city as far as I am aware.
Again, it is also not simply that it follows the format of the article, the format is wrong. Compare this to the architecture section for Chicago. First sentence is the most historical high rise, and then it addresses the tallest buildings beginning with the tallest.
I think I've given ample time for any editors to address this issue. Unless someone can satisfy these concerns I am going to take the liberty of fixing the section to be more in line with the cityscape articles on other cities.
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