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Texasota

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  1. Uggh. This place had better at least serve decent tacos.
  2. I'm not a libertarian, so I don't 100% speak your language Ross. I can sometime translate, but it's an imperfect process. My only real point is that reducing that whole side of town to parking lots was a net loss for decades.
  3. It's next to a light rail station 2 stops from downtown and backs up to heavy rail tracks. Skyline views for residents of detached single family homes is the *lowest* possible priority I can imagine.
  4. Ooooh I like this argument. By extension predominantly single family neighborhoods have little value.
  5. No. Philly for one, but I'd say it's not that unusual regardless of city size.
  6. Now they just need to put a residential tower on top of the bus bays.
  7. I can live with that site plan, and the architecture shown in the concept images is above average. Hopefully they keep to that.
  8. I feel strongly that Riverside/Riverside Terrace should be preserved as much as possible, but this is a vacant lot on the edge of the neighborhood. In general, I'm much more sympathetic to wanting to save something that could be demolished than to worrying about the impact of new construction on existing "character". I used to live a few blocks from here, and, in general, would have loved to see more development. More people. More stuff. Hopefully these houses turn out above average, but, even if they don't, homes are better than vacant lots.
  9. Always has. There's some storage up there for pieces not currently on display and offices.
  10. I really like the service alley and the separated garages so everything facing Waugh serves people rather than cars. The building itself is reasonably handsome though a bit too officey looking. If it werent for the balconies it would just be an above average office building. But it's not bad.
  11. That would be the "awful strip mall" I was referring to. I have to assume tear-down is the plan, but until we see a site plan who knows. And until we see shovels in the ground for that matter. Hopefully this won't be another Regent Square.
  12. Ho. Ly. Crap. Don't tease me with the redevelopment of that awful strip mall. It's my white whale.
  13. I hate it so much I maybe like it?
  14. I lived in Minneapolis. It is absolutely an oasis but let's not overstate things.
  15. That Kroger is fine, but this is still a good spot. Something more specialized or maybe a Trader Joe's would do well.
  16. I genuinely wish they had built new, though I'm sure keeping that one attic window grandfathered them in as a "renovation". This is just ugly.
  17. Balconies are good. I do like them recessed like this, but I think *every* apartment and condo should have some sort of private outdoor space.
  18. health-forward restaurant ... based in the Midwest... Nope. It doesn't add up.
  19. I kind of want the TMobile store to be completely different. This whole thing is shaped like an exclamation point - make the TMobile store bright pink and covered with neon as the "point".
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