/news/2014/01/the-college-center-the-heart-of-the-sylvania-campus-sees-completion-of-phase-i-renovation/ Fri, 10 May 2024 17:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news/2014/01/the-college-center-the-heart-of-the-sylvania-campus-sees-completion-of-phase-i-renovation/#comment-25957 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:19:03 +0000 http://bond.pcc.edu/?p=9999#comment-25957 The new mall is awful – it scares me. I have low vision and I’m scared to walk across the mall b/c I can’t see the edges of the stairs or those crazy new drop-offs, where you walk past a bench and the floor suddenly ends and drops by 3-4 feet (what on earth is the point of those?). The new mall looks like something from the Soviet era – all hard edges and cold, hard surfaces. It’s brighter than the old mall, but I can see absolutely no functional improvement over the old mall except to scare the hell out of me and all the old and disabled people who are afraid of falling off the new cliffs in this area. The stairs on the south end of the mall look positively dangerous – narrow steps with steep risers and no handrail except at either end. Each step is about 30 feet long! – nothing to grab if you climb down in the middle and start to fall. I’m sorry, but the new mall seems like a terrible waste of money. I bet we’ll be told “You all told us you wanted it this way.”

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