EDITOR NOTE–Rabula and others, the view is from the Depot. The old view was from Crescent Rim. Part of our problem was the wide format and the width. If we shot a wide view showing EVERYTHING, the building would be so tiny as to be insignificant. We shot this at dusk and did no manipulation in Photoshop with regard to colors etc. The biggest challenge was to separate the beige buildings which blended together (the “skyline” has vanished). We feel it shows the “increased density” sought by the city leaders.

I like the close up composition, but some of the those lights are distracting (pink on Zions, garage, traffic)

I see over on the “alternative” BW website, there’s a story about how Team Dave is lamenting that homeowners are being burdened with more and more of the tax load, and commercial property with less. (That is, when Team Dave isn’t off to another ribbon-cutting or groundbreaking for another tax-exempt commercial property.)

Thanks for being a burr under the saddle, Dave! YOU ROCK!

It wasn’t just team Dave tooting the trolley whistle. If I recall correctly, Team Coles spent $300,000 on the Regio Sprinter for a week of demo rides between Meridian and The Depot. No word if any of those riders actually walked that last mile and a half to downtown.

Sigh, that $300,000 would have completed about 1/3rd of the missing greenbelt between Americana and Main.

EDITOR NOTE–You are correct. Coles was also the one who pushed for a police station in the flood plain along Fairview without a vote of the citizens. I stopped that in court and saved citizens about $15,000,000 when the city paid cash for the new “City Hall West.”

The only down side is that you are forced to include the “ugliest building in America – that being the butt (backside) of the Aspen building.