[austlar1]

Kind of reminds me of a lyric from a Talking Heads song, the one that goes "How did I find myself behind the wheel of this large automobile?" The ACC president gets to play Donald Trump. I just hope that a real street grid ( a grid of public streets extending beyond the existing mall into adjacent underuntilized properties) is introduced. I'd like to see the city get in on the action and be able to provide incentives to get the adjacent properties redeveloped as well. 20 years from now we could have a truly urban cluster up in that area helping to soldify central Austin as the place to live and do business. I know a lot of SSP forumers don't see Highland Mall as being a central Austin location, but the truth is that it is very centrally located. I know two commercial real estate people in this town pretty well, and both of them talk about the Highland Mall area in terms of "location, location, location". Developing this area is not going to steal the thunder from downtown development.