{"id":5436,"date":"2015-02-18T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2015-02-18T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:47:58","slug":"fifty-shades-of-grey-forest-city-soopers-unable-to-give-eastbridge-town-center-any-sex-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5436","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades of Grey; Forest City, Soopers Unable to Give Eastbridge Town Center Any Sex Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"new<\/a>The Eastbridge Town Center issue continues to loom large, especially with Eastbridge residents. Recently, architectural plans were released for the new King Soopers, as well as a layout for the new town center. To say the least, residents were uninspired. \u201cIt is literally sheet metal and brick,\u201d says resident Sam Elijah. \u201cThere has been nothing done to personalize the feel of the store or the town center. It\u2019s like they just grabbed a bunch of strip mall designs, threw them in a box, and drew one out lottery style. This is the same old same old with no imagination.\u201d\n\nIt may be true that the designs seem colder than the Northeastern winter, but designers say not much can be done with the designs. \u201cThat\u2019s just architecture,\u201d says designer Ryan Glynn. \u201cMany of the world\u2019s most beautiful buildings probably didn\u2019t look that great in the design stage on paper. You are not coloring a picture, you are trying to create a structure that will fill its purpose and not collapse. So, it is a lot of math and science that goes into the designs, so they often aren\u2019t going to look sexy.\u201d\nResident Jenny Bearbower disagrees. \u201cI have seen a lot of different architectural renderings and these are potentially the ugliest designs I have ever seen,\u201d says Beerbower. \u201cThere is absolutely nothing unique about the designs of either the King Soopers building or the layout of the Town Center. Just a big box building with a giant parking lot. And you\u2019re not fooling me with the trees.\u201d Darla Elmore also feels more could be done with the layout. \u201cIt just seems very unimaginative,\u201d says Elmore. \u201cAbout anyone could have come up with that simple, thoughtless design. And if you were designing the King Soopers structure, you just had to go copy the other King Soopers. There doesn\u2019t seem to be much different.\u201d\nDesigners are adamant that the finished product will look better than how it appears on paper. \u201cOnce it becomes a finished product, you will be able to see and understand the beauty in an architect\u2019s design,\u201d says Glynn. \u201cPeople need to be patient and understand that they are not architects, and therefore, let the architects just do our wonderful work.\u201d Of course, residents can sleep easy, as it is unclear if a contract has even been signed by Soopers and Forest City. And for a lot of residents, the hate of the building design is as simple as looking at the logo on the building. ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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