D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

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The massive apartment building that replaced the 1970s mixed-height office complex is getting to the finishing stage: balconies and fake balconies in front of windows have been installed, but the plastic wrapping has to be ripped away from many of them. It looks fairly grim - doesn't even have the play pastiche aspect of the one on the other side of the street a bit further south that replaced two houses. They have, however, finally installed a temporary sidewalk; they were previously using that space for swinging pickaxes. This city generally has very narrow sidewalks, presumably to discourage loitering or something; I wonder whether they'll keep to that outside this very urban building. Looking across the street northwards there's a view of the looming towers of the unfinished downtown Sunnyvale development, so it really is a bit of an urban wasteland.