Whatever gets built on Kerbela Hill will dominate the view from almost everywhere downtown. The current plan looks like a prison crossed with a second-rate Motel 6, looming over a city that deserves far better. Knoxville deserves beautiful architecture that fits the character of downtown. This is not it. The community already made the feedback clear: a site this visible cannot look like crap. Adding a pathway through the middle of the monstrosity does not fix the fact that it still looks like crap. This is not some cheap apartment complex in the middle of nowhere being peddled as luxury. It is one of the most important pieces of land in the city, and treating it this carelessly is insulting. Deny this design. Hold the developers and the city to a higher standard. Build something on that hill that makes people look down Gay Street in wonder or at the very least, not in disgust.
