{"id":2186,"date":"2007-06-16T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/welcome-to-denver-er-dallas-er-who-cares\/"},"modified":"2007-06-16T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T23:44:26","slug":"welcome-to-denver-er-dallas-er-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/welcome-to-denver-er-dallas-er-who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Denver, er, Dallas, er, who cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>We need to get our act together <strong>NOW<\/strong> to restrict skyscrapers to specific areas. I can live with downtown as a sacrifice zone, but monster-buildings outside of that basin are a sharp stick in everyone&#8217;s eye. The vista is doomed. Someone is going to get rich ruining Albuquerque. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Proposed 30-story Albuquerque high-rise would be tallest in N.M. By Erik Siemers<\/p>\n<p>In what could be the first significant change to Albuquerque&#8217;s skyline since 1990, a developer is proposing <strong class=\"highlight\">a 30-story high-rise condominium<\/strong> development on the west end of Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated $175 million project, called the Residences at Packard Place, <strong class=\"highlight\">would be the tallest building in New Mexico, eclipsing the 22-story Albuquerque Plaza office building Downtown<\/strong>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown project isn&#8217;t the only high-rise being conceptualized in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Local commercial development company Chant Associates is working on a project that could bring <strong class=\"highlight\">a 25- to 30-story mixed-use high-rise to the corner of Jefferson Street and I-25<\/strong>, where Johnny Carino&#8217;s Italian restaurant used to be.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/jun\/15\/proposed-30-story-albuquerque-high-rise-would-be-t\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>How long before Lucky Jason Daskalos gives into penis envy and builds something even bigger. He&#8217;ll put a bar at the top so he can get higher than anyone in New Mexico. And a ramp for his Porsche. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to get our act together NOW to restrict skyscrapers to specific areas. I can live with downtown as a sacrifice zone, but monster-buildings outside of that basin are a sharp stick in everyone&#8217;s eye. The vista is doomed. Someone is going to get rich ruining Albuquerque. mjh Proposed 30-story Albuquerque high-rise would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/welcome-to-denver-er-dallas-er-who-cares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to Denver, er, Dallas, er, who cares?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}