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Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam
Btw, I don't see what Jack in the Box and TC have to do with your argument, at all. Using them makes no sense.
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My point of mentioning that was to say that people go to these places all the time, it is a "destination" for people hundreds of times a day; why is it such a stretch to think that people can't wander 200 ft. to a small sandwich or ice cream shop down the street?
All I was thinking and envisioning was that since Humphreys was already going to be closed off, it could act as a pedestrian walkway towards Oaktree, with two buildings sitting on each side with some retail, just a couple of small spaces, leading towards a main building where Mulberry Village sits/sat (Idk if its still there, don't live there anymore). If you ask for more than an FAR of 1 and get some more units, all of a sudden, the area has some life to it. Nothing extremely special; like WorldTexas said, it doesn't have to be Pearl, but it is a "place".
I also didn't say that anything had to face the fenceline of Ft. Sam, and a dead end has nothing to do with anything if your destination is before the dead end. Technically, mostly every shopping center in the burbs is a dead end since they don't connect to the neighborhoods directly behind them. The key is to go out the same way you came in.