Electric Monstrosity in Lloyd District
What You Don't See Behind McDonald's
The “Electric Monstrosity” is located on the block between Grand & 6th and Halsey & Clackamas. That’s smack-dab in the Lloyd District, so I’m making it part of this column.
It’s ugly.
Words fail when I try to describe it beyond, “It’s ugly.” Imagine a transformer station with wires and poles and gizmos and whatsits with connections and big gray boxes, plus a base of fresh brown rocks behind a fairly new chain link fence.
That’s sort of what it looks like, only worse.
Somebody knows it’s ugly. That’s evident. On the side that faces McDonald’s, there is a line of trees and bushes so thick and deep a person going through the drive-thru doesn’t even notice the “Electric Monstrosity.”
I’m curious. Did the “powers that be” put up a “green border” on their own or because McDonald’s customers complained or because McDonald’s has enough clout to ask them to put it up?
Electric Monstrosity - Another View
Grand is a busy one-way street and it runs right next to the “Electric Monstrosity,” so why not put a “green border” there? Well, on that corner, the “powers that be” put up a fake building front. It’s two stories tall and if you’re driving by on Grand – you don’t notice the “Electric Monstrosity.”
Why? Because it’s ugly, but that’s a given.
Do the “powers that be” want to hide the “Electric Monstrosity” from the commuters on Grand? Or did the developer of the newer building across Grand ask someone in power to do something? The main reason I ask is because the people in Cornerstone Apartments across 6th have to look at the “Electric Monstrosity” and because the fake building on the opposite corner looks approximately the same age as the building that faces it.
On the face of things, it doesn’t appear fair.
Fake Building of the Electric Monstrosity
I don’t know what’s in the “Electric Monstrosity” or why it is located on that block instead of near the railroad tracks, freeway, or waterfront. Lord knows there are other ugly places it could be and that area (I think) is (or was) trying to rebuild (except during times of economic crisis), but…
…I’m curious.
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