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Donjek founder and principal
Jon Commers is founder and principal of Donjek, Incorporated. His projects focus on navigating placemakers - planners, developers, engineers - through financial feasibility and analysis, with an emphasis on facilitating public-private sector negotiations. Read more about Jon Commers.
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The model suggests a missed opportunity
The view of the model shown has the viewer hovering above I-35W and looking east down Washington. Should we infer that no changes to the … read more Washington-35W interchange are being considered? That's where the real wasted space is. That stretch of 35W should be reworked with straight frontage streets and the 1960s-style baby interchange loops replaced with a simple intersection of the frontage streets with Washington. Rectification here would open up several more acres for dense development.
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