LOL. Why are we even discussing DCSB locating to King Street and McCoys creek? Never ever going to happen.
Its called thinking outside the box. It may not be feasible, probable or a good idea for many reasons, but at least it stretches one's vision and pushes planners to be more creative in finding acceptable solutions. If Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos listened to "never ever going to happen" few would ever know who they were. The greatest opportunities are found where few others have gone before.
Look at some of the "old" buildings changing hands in the urban core lately that are being repurposed for novel new uses. Who would expect U-Haul to put a mini-storage in a nearly 100 year old building? Or that, around the corner, Dennis & Ives would be converting an old freezer warehouse into an office, food and entertainment complex in a traditionally industrial neighborhood? Or that a giant candy store would move into the stuffy remains of a once prestigious men's-only club? Or that someone would spend tens of millions to convert the aged Union warehouse in another industrial neighborhood into apartments? Or that, one day, a billionaire NFL owner (who, by the way, started his own company when his employer dissed his ideas for a better car bumper as "never ever going to happen") would want to build a near half-billion residential-office-entertainment complex on what used to be a tank farm that remains a brownfield?
Its the old saw, there is no such thing as a bad idea. If nothing else, as Lake noted, maybe it focuses another party to take a second look at the property for some other purpose.
