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Originally Posted by bobg
I agree that it's upzoned and can be redeveloped. But unlike other lines that we are building most of the stops are not near massive failing shopping centers/malls , declining industrial, brownfield, greenfield, and similar plots of land. So I guess I should clarify we do not have a lot of easy TOD opportunities along that corridor.
Personally I prefer densification occurring the way you described, but it is also harder, and going to be more piecemeal than along some of the other lines. With all the easier TOD opportunities we have elsewhere (and are still creating) it may thin out developers willing to go through the additional hurdles of piecing land together, potential NIMBY issues, etc. Unless of course the neighborhood(s) get hot/trendy like Highland did a decade ago.
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Yeah I pretty much agree with everything you just said. I tend to think that piecemeal development is better anyway and creates more "authentic" urban settings, unlike the isolated, inward looking TODs that failing mall sites often give us. I do agree however that it could be slow going with the developers, at least at first. But I also tend to be a bit of an optimist and I don't think it's all that far fetched that the area could become "cool and trendy" and start to redevelop faster (not to "promote gentrification", but realistically I think that it might happen here, and honestly the structures in the area do need to be replaced).
Edit: Watching the video again, I think I actually spotted a pretty substantial apartment structure under construction just before the Lamar station, a station that happens to have a rather large brownfield site immediately adjacent.
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