To me this is a positive change for the neighborhood, they just fail to recognize it.
Posted on 12/22/2007 6:12:56 AM PST by Kolb
A judge has ruled that a Wal-Mart Supercenter can be built at Northcross Mall, despite the objections of some neighbors.
A group of residents called Responsible Growth for Northcross tried to stop the North Austin store by suing the City of Austin and Lincoln Property Co., arguing that the store plans proposed by Lincoln and approved by the city violate city rules.
State District Judge Orlinda Naranjo sided with the city and Lincoln in her ruling Friday, saying it was fine for the city to approve a second site plan for the store without holding a public hearing about a possible garden center at the new Wal-Mart.
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To me this is a positive change for the neighborhood, they just fail to recognize it.
Yikes! Gangs? My UT dd lives in Hyde Park off West 45th Street. That’s not very far from this proposed WalMart, is it?
THAT is one ugly building.
That’s the nicest big box store I’ve ever seen.
The NIMBY crowd is not going to be happy with this. They have been fighting this tooth and nail and I am sure they will continue. If I were running Wal-Mart I would close down every store in Travis county, reopen them just outside the county line, and not hire employees that live in Austin. Let the people reap what they sow.
Allandale has managed to quash quite a few developments that would have been, IMHO, great improvements over current structures along the transit corridors surroudning their neighborhood. However, I don’t think they will prevail over Wal-Mart.
This insanity has gotten so bad (nitpicking over minor design details and non-existent “problems” the developments supposedly would create for the neighborhood) that many developers want nothing to do with projects near neighborhoods anymore. Too much trouble.
I don’t. It looks like something a kid with a box of legos and tinker toys came up with.
Okay, thanks. I don’t know Austin well, but remember she mentioned driving by Northcross when she took Burnet home from The Domain one day.
It looks great. Much improved. Walmart stores are also leading the way in environmental technology, which is cool.
“If I were running Wal-Mart I would close down every store in Travis county, reopen them just outside the county line, and not hire employees that live in Austin.”
I am sure WMT shareholders are happy you don’t run Wal Mart!
Looks better than the standard Wal-Mart.
Funny! Most of the stores in the mall have closed or are closing. Half the parking lot is gone. They’re building the drainage system. One wall on the south side is being erected. A Walgreens has popped up in the north side parking lot.
They were going to build this not matter what the Yuppies thought. It will be the largest, most upscale WM in the world.
Some of the neighbors were just concerned about the traffic, but the origins of this battle goes back to the socialist’s war against capitalism and liberals attacks on those evil Republican-supporting Waltons.
I like your thinking. Let the People's Republic of Austin do without the affordable priced items and make them pay for all the expensive items. I don't live in Austin, but have to commute there to work. This is another part of the "Keep Austin Weird" part of Travis county.
Don’t like glass do you?
were you deprived of tinker toys as a child? I see no tinker toy influence in the photo.
The design is typical southwest influence and is good architecture
Well, now after your personal attacks, I see I was all wrong. It's not ugly it's horrifically ugly.
I am curious why you chose to attack me for my opinion?
Your opinion seems to indicate anti Walmart bias wrapped in the inability to see the strong southwest architectural influence. You belittled the architect with totally inept toy reference.
They just opened one in Monona, WI. I took my Dad there for a tour a few weeks back, and it was impressive. Nicely done, added hundreds of jobs to a depressed area with pay starting at $11.82 an hour WITH benefits.
Underground parking, not a blight on the landscape. What was there before? A failed mini-mall and acres of asphalt that had sat empty for FIVE years.
And, despite leftist (and some really ignorant Freepers) opinions, you CAN find everything you NEED at Wal-Mart with a ‘Made in America’ sticker on it. I do. Every few weeks. :)
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