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.
“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!
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.