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the foundry can fuck off. it was a hole. anyone selling stale £4.50 organic pints and charging people to put on art shows can fuck off. if you're not going to reinvest at least some of your profits into the community, at least invest it into making your pub more comfortable. or at least a decent speaker or two. and as for community, i mean seriously. that crazy woman who writes "poems" about earthworms? she can fuck off, too. aside from the messengers, there wasn't much of a community around the foundry.
i disagree that a posh hotel is not in keeping with the neighbourhood. at 17 stories, it's arguably too tall for the neighbourhood. but that triangle desperately needs redeveloping. it's incredible that, while shoreditch highstreet (which was a hole), redchurch street (which was a hole that doesn't even have the redemption of busy foottraffic) and rivington street (which was a scummy back alley full of trash and prostitutes) all got transformed into cool streets, but a major intersection with commercial real estate fronting the street can't attract a single interesting business.