AWFUL. Wachovia Bank Building on North Main St

AWFUL. This thing looms over Gainesville's Main Street like a bad matte painting background in a particularly terrible 1970s sci-fi TV show. At least this unfortunate pile of masonry and poured concrete has the good sense to be on the edge of downtown, where it handily cuts off the residential neighborhood of Fifth Ave/Pleasant St from traffic noise on Main St. (I'm trying to be positive here.)

Fortunately, it has a rather small footprint and the pedestrian level is less offensive than many of the period. Plus, you can actually find the front door. The landscaping does a lot to eliminate the negative relationship between the building and the street. Yay trees!

The actual worst part of this big box of ugly is its parking structure, which consumes a whole block behind it. That was a result of misguided development regulations in that era, and one cannot blame the developer for that mistake, cuz you know no developer would waste money like that unless someone made him.

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