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| - Who the hell shoehorned Epcot Center into the formerly scrappy, character-laden South Side?
Personally, aside from their first-rate movie theater (which I have reviewed), I've never been comfortable with South Side Works, in theory and practice. It just doesn't feel as if it belongs where it is. SSW is a suburban strip mall/shopping center that teleported to Beverly Hills, got a gaudy makeover, missed Fox Chapel by a few miles, and landed in Sahs Syde instead. Expensive chains I have little desire to shop or eat in litter this artificial sub-neighborhood like a gaggle of mean, popular, pampered seniors in a high school hallway.
Whenever I have walked around SSW, I felt like it was all temporary, like a movie set, like it would all be gone a month later. I wish someone would in fact pack it all up and take it.
Besides, why wander around SSW when a Carson Street promenade is blocks away and has so much more substance?
Why do many people oppose gentrification with a passion? South Side Works is just one of many reasons. It's overdone and just doesn't work.
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