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Deezus and Ohio248, can you verify that San Jose doesn't have a great downtown? If you guys can, then I would have to accept Manhattan style of urban fabric, which is no defined downtown or downtown scene. If you guys can somehow pull it off, I would cry like a baby. By the way, that little strip mall downtown is what makes other cities jealous. It has Target, Marshall, TJ Max, Trader's Joes and all the conviences of retail services that mall provide for the downtown residences. Only 1/2 mile from middle of downtown core.
So what makes San Jose downtown special is it off price discount department stores in strip malls . Hmm and you think people are drawn to downtown San Jose to shop in its strip malls ? Are the strip malls a large tourism draw ?
Ohio248, you still haven't proven that San Jose doesn't have a good or great downtown yet. If you can, I would bow. Do you feel that Dt. San Jose is not lively and nice? If you can prove it, then I would think Manhattan is a cool borough. If you can't, I rest my case.
Ohio248, you still haven't proven that San Jose doesn't have a good or great downtown yet. If you can, I would bow. Do you feel that Dt. San Jose is not lively and nice? If you can prove it, then I would think Manhattan is a cool borough. If you can't, I rest my case.
You don't have a case.
There is not one person on earth besides yourself who would claim that San Jose has a better downtown than NYC.
Hell, there isn't one person on earth who would claim San Jose has a better downtown than San Francisco, which is like one-tenth the size of NYC's core.
You see, when you make a wild claim, it's YOUR responsibility to prove it.
So please prove your claim that suburban San Jose has the greatest downtown in the universe.
Ohio248, what downtown in Manhattan? It doesn't have a downtown. Lower Manhattan with a huge hole in the middle. Lower Manhattan is Detroit downtown of 21st century that has TriBeca and SoHo as ok neighborhoods with some stores and restaurants just like Greektown in Dt. Detroit in the 80's-just an isolated pockets of activities in an otherwise drappy place.
I never said Dt. San Jose is the best downtown in the world. Can you find it on my prior post? It has a nice downtown with everything packed together, nightclubs, office, housing, entertainment, university, stores and restaurants. Alot of cities downtowns segregate these uses, not San Jose.
Ohio248, you thereby failed to prove that San Jose doesn't have a downtown that is decent, so I, unfortunatey, not going to adapt Manhattan's semi vertical LA style development. I'm so anti-LA which is a hole in a donut. New York is semi vertical version of LA. I'm a downtown person, and there is no downtown in New York unless you want to call 9/11 site as your downtown with very few active, noteworthy neighborhoods. I ran away from LA. New York is LA on the east coast.
I'd compare San Jose to Waterloo... 'tis a fine comparison. Waterloo is a "tech" city. RIM (Blackberry) has it's HQ there. Population-wise it's about the same too. But please don't compare SJ to Montreal bro!
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