Post by the Hawthorne Hawkman, photos by Scottie Tuska
West Broadway needs big ideas. The stretch along the south side of Broadway, from around Bryant to Emerson, needs comprehensive investment and change (as does Lyndale to Bryant, and almost every other segment along the corridor). Those two needs, however, do not unilaterally go hand in hand. At a West Broadway Coalition presentation tonight, Tim Baylor's Pinnacle Management group exemplified that specific dynamic.
Pinnacle's proposal, called Satori, is to take every building on the south side of West Broadway from midway along Bryant (commonly referred to as "The Prayer Center Building" even though that tenant is long gone) all the way to Emerson, and tear almost all of it down. In its place would be first-floor retail, second-floor office space, and 2-4 floors of luxury apartments. The plan has its shortcomings, but I could still support it if it were on the north side of the street.
First, the shortcomings...
