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Originally Posted by smt1

I live in that area and would love this development to happen. This area really is a grocery desert. It is apropos that this site once housed a Safeway. There hasn't been anything of consequence on this site since Safeway pulled out of Texas in the late '80s and left the site abandoned. There has long been rumblings about this, as well as the lack of development on East 12th in comparison to East 11th, which were once in similar states of disrepair in the 90's. Well, more recently, the drug market @ 12th/Chicon is gone, and the associated dealers, crackheads, crackhouses, and brothels have been replaced with a coworking space, food trucks, an art gallary, restaurants, a few bars, and a lot of new housing in the area. Between that, and all the redevelopment planned for the areas of downtown nearby (capitol area, medical district, brackenridge redevelopment, waller creek-related redevelopments), the areas around the frontage road were bound to get denser, as was started by the new apartment complexes in the area.

During their design commision presentation, the developers said they were working with TxDOT in terms of developing plans to use part of the space to add new through lanes through lanes to 12th street from the frontage road.

I like your attitude. I used to own a cute little house off of Manor Rd. near the Vortex Theater, and if something like this were to have been planned for that neighborhood I may not have danced for joy, but I certainly wouldn't have actively opposed it. It's unfortunate that a majority of humanity places such an irrationally high value on the avoidance of disruption.

Regarding the "through lanes" you mentioned, what does this refer to more specifically? A new road between 11th and 12th, or...?