My doctor's office is in a two story walk-up. Her office is on the first floor. In the basement, there is a small pharmacy. Accessing the front door proved very difficult for many patients and so today there is a very long entrance ramp at the rear of the building.
If I had to describe the two building infill development, I"d call it ugly and not all the practical. The distant building, a small apartment building, appears to have problems dispersing humidity. The surface of the white bricks on the side of the building is flaking, leaving ugly, rough, exposed red brick.
The near building has a small roof jutting out from above the front entrance. The roof is too small to provide much protection from rain but it is large enough to be struck by delivery trucks. Its days are numbered.
Is this really the best we can do when trying to maximize land use in the city? Surely infill can look attractive.
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