{"id":2446202,"date":"2019-07-10T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/city-of-aspen-offices-a-manufactured-need\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:17:07","slug":"city-of-aspen-offices-a-manufactured-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/city-of-aspen-offices-a-manufactured-need\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Aspen offices a manufactured need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The perceived need for the large new city of Aspen office building is, and always has been, based on faulty assumptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Look at the numbers. Why does the city need so much space? The oft asked question \u2014 How much square footage does the city really need? \u2014 never gets answered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Did the ballot question about a community center really give the city the authority to build? Despite plenty of public objection, the project pushes forward full speed ahead. The \u201cprogramming\u201d for the building is clearly in flux. The city defends the project by referencing \u201cneeds\u201d for 2050. How about needs for 2020?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Maybe the city should put 10 housing units on the third floor instead of 7,000 square feet of \u201ccommunity\u201d space and \u201cfuture\u201d offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Andrew M. Israel<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen and Detroit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/city-of-aspen-offices-a-manufactured-need\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perceived need for the large new city of Aspen office building is, and always has been, based on faulty assumptions. Look at the numbers. Why does the city need so much space? The oft asked question \u2014 How much square footage does the city really need? \u2014 never gets answered. Did the ballot question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 04:16:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446225,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446202\/revisions\/2446225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}