Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C

[MidTowner]

So maybe take that "retaining wall" (which is really just a windowless wall which allows for cut-and-cover parking), lose a few parking spaces, and make a nice sidewalk along King with uptown/downtown-style storefronts packed along it. But the inside of the stores need only go back howevermany feet, whereupon you could still have parking behind that. Add in internal staircases that go up the 1-3 floors of that street facing streetfront, and you can have "rooftop" areas which fill into the main height of the common space.

This would improve it immensely.

Very good points in your post. And your idea of creating retail space under the underpass would have been awesome.