Developers aim for ‘10th square’ to fit right in
For over a year, the site of the former New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum has stood empty and deserted — and to Alex Garvin ’62 ARC ’67, the CEO of Alex Garvin & Associates who teaches “Introduction to Study of The City,” that is unremarkable. It is an open question, he said, whether the market is demanding "another open space."
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First of all, please, please, please stop referring to this area as "the 10th square." This is a gimmicky developer's name that has absolutely no basis in historical or contemporary usage -- or reality, for that matter. For goodness sake, it's a triangle. Until someone comes up with something meaningful, how about just calling it by its address?
Second, "the proposal would not make any changes to the nine-square plan" -- well, of course not. That would only require undoing the street grid of all of downtown. Was that ever even a possibility?
Finally, kudos to Prof. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen for pointing out that we must continue New Haven's tradition of progressive, forward-looking architecture. Too bad that, from the sounds of it, (art deco? in 2008?) that's not what we're getting.