Someone said bank robbery on the Citizens app

Wow, more going on there than bad urban design.

Robbing a bank in Canton, if true, is ballsy. And of course, stupid.

Interesting factoid. Where a lot of crime goes unsolved or investigated. The apprehension of bank robbers is over 90⅝.

Worst parking lot!

Of course they’re gonna follow the money. Poor citizens? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Why more so than robbing a bank anywhere else?

I sometime go to Canton Crossing. When I do, I think I am in Hunt Valley or Columbia. Its not a feeling I am comfortable with. My guess is that was the aim of the developer. Most of the people who frequent the shopping center could easily fit in with a suburban setting.

Ok but sheesh no need to rob the place

No easy way out if escaping by vehicle? Traffic there is a mess.

It’s just terrible land use in general. Guess that’s what we get when a petroleum company leases a chunk of land for over half a century and leaves it toxic.

Yep. Police are there to protect capital, not citizens. This fact is the most clear proof of that.

The land was leased by Exxon Mobil for like 60 years. The ground is just filled with toxic dirt and fumes from petroleum. Sapperstein (the developer) was extremely limited on what they could build on the land. If you look at the parking lot light poles when you’re there they actually double as vents for the ground. They have caps at the top that allow toxic gasses to dissipate.

Bingo. Like how tf did they even escape? If imma rob a bank, let me be on a main drag somewhere.

Omg tf.... Thank you for the info, wow. Does the brownfield end at Boston Street, or...? All those apartments they're building, hope it's not going to be some low level Love Canal shit. 🥴

Yes. And while I wish the development was more urban, it's a vast improvement over what is what it was, which was a toxic wasteland. By all economic measures, it's been a massive success.

Yeah that development doesn't seem well suited for an urban environment at all.

It's a sea of concrete and could have been so much more than that.

Exactly. That land is very close to the water. One would expect it to be really valuable land that would be much better utilized.

Harbor point is being built on with little problem despite it's history so why can't the same be the case for Canton Crossing?

That target should have been two stories and more stores added as well so that it becomes a place to chill and shop.

Across Boston street should be taller buildings and more restaurants that are actually sit down establishments. Basically a denser space than what's there now.