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Times: Hercules hopes transit station will beckon visitors from afar

— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 19 October 2009 — Comments Off

A fitting end (or a new beginning, yada yada)… “The appearance of harmony that characterized the past few weeks of the design-selection process was a stark departure from months of sometimes bitter wrangling over the design of the station, part of a greater, years-long debate over the future of the Hercules waterfront that has pitted new urbanism advocates against adherents of a more automobile-oriented approach to urban planning, with large parking lots and garages and larger-scale retail stores.“


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