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The security at the latter has hats and green uniforms like park rangers. You can almost forget that it's all private land.

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If it has goofy security and its on private land, its still fake public space.

Yes, precisely. But this is what we're building these days. It's not gated, it's open to the street, but it's not a public plaza either. There is even something in their agreement with the city that they can't filter people out.

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