This is where I completely disagree. This sort of development isn’t weaving together an urban experience and behaves more like another indoor or outdoor mall that you drive to.
This is not a binary choice IMO. You don’t have to sacrifice connecting to a community because you want to have an internally facing event/gathering space. For as large as Smoky Hollow is, it has given us a dearth of either Harrington or West facing storefronts. Even worse, places like Midwood put their kitchen backing up to West like it’s some sort of Alley. Had Kane paid as much attention to the street facing experiences, we’d have a much more active and robust project for the greater Glenwood South District.