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I am so glad that the Miapolis project fizzled but, then again, I don't think that anyone took it seriously to begin with. I can't even imagine what the MacArthur Causeway would be like with this behometh sitting on that island.
It was a long time ago but a proposed island between the Venetian and Julia Tuttle Causeways was never built. From what I understand, it was to be accesssed from the Venetian. At low tide, one can see its proposed shape emerge via an encircling rhythm of wood stumps that are still in Biscayne Bay.
I hope the giant casino complex proposed by a Malaysian developer also finds its final resting place in history. That project has disaster written all over it for residents in both Miami and Miami Beach who live nearby.
Miapolis sounds like a joke, I'm glad it was never built as well. It wouldn't look right in Miami, or any city for that matter. I was just looking at projects in D.C. that we're never built or scaled down and I was a tad bit disappointed in how much significant development D.C. missed.
There was supposed to be a bridge similar to Tower Bridge in London
On the orginal site of National Harbor, MD there was supposed to be the tallest building from Philly and the tallest in the south (at the time it was proposed). It was going to be called "Port America". The FAA didn't allow it to be built because its too close to D.C.'s airports. I'm glad it wasn't built though because now we have National Harbor. It would have been 900' ft and 52 floors.
For Seattle, there was a building that would have gone right in the heart of downtown's shopping district and a stone's throw from Pike Place Market. It was to be an innovative building, a mixed-use condo/hotel building. Typically the concept of a condo/hotel building is condominium residents live above a luxury hotel and enjoy the same benefits of hotel guests - from the work out room to the valet parking to the sky decks and everything, plus private amenities.
However, this building was different. The concept was, if you owned a "mixed use" condo, if you lived in the condo and went on a trip or something and would be vacant, your homeowner's association dues would cover cleaning and full service securing of your stuff and rent out your room to hotel guests. The market segment of this was clearly geared towards the rich, and the math really didn't make much sense to me. One guy said that he reasonably expected to rent out his 1 bedroom condo for $300 a night for 22 days of the year or more and turn a profit on it.
It was a freaky idea and almost nobody who was a serious home buyer really considered it. You would expect something like this to make sense in resort hotel and destination locations, NOT Seattle! Think Bahamas or islands in the Mediterranean. NOT Seattle! Further, the building fell victim of zoning laws. Finally, ownership transfer questions arose, and the credit bubble bursting was the final straw.
It remained a hole in the ground on the intersection of second and pike downtown for years
$300 a night to share? No thank you, maybe it was best for it to be cancelled. One of the biggest disappoints for Maryland in my opinion was that one of our cities was originally supposed to have Mall of America.
The Towers on Capitol Mall. They got as far as tearing down the drab existing building and pile driving. And there it sits. Now, with Redevelopment most likely gone it'll remain that way for probably the next ten years or so. Nothing in Sacramento moves without its wheels being well-greased with corporate welfare dollars.
Of course, the building the Towers on Capitol Mall was supposed to replace was also a redevelopment project, that displaced a residential neighborhood.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Louisville has been going to get a new Ohio River bridge to complete it's beltline "in 10 more years" since 1970, still not an inch of dirt has been moved. Now the I-64 bridge has been closed due to danger of collapsing, and the only remaining bridge freeway bridge could collapse within 20 years!!
My city is too small to have big projects so I can't say much. For New York City, the big city I visit most and am familiar with, I think the greatest cancelled project is the proposed expansion of the IND subway lines. (The IND lines were initially government built unlike the other two system which privately built and then later taken over by the city).
They would have allowed much more of the outer sections of the city to have subway access. 100 more route miles (294 miles of track); an increase of 50%. Only a few parts were built. The great depression stalled these expansions and then post- World War II public funds were used to build highways instead.
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