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Originally Posted by LiveattheOasis
For all that South Lamar has (arguably Austin's best street in my view, with Burnet and Congress on that list too), there are a TON of storage facilities on South Lamar and so many opportunities to make it even better.
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It appears that lots of the storage facilities are going vertical and while I wish they would have better street interaction (for the love of god, your 3 story storage unit can have retail in the street facing first floor) my guess is some of these are being used to "free up" space at surrounding large surface storage unit places which should create some more VMUs.
I also believe the large used car lot that is across from Heather has been cleared out for a while now, but does not appears to be part of the Lucy's Chicken VMU.
Hopefully the CVS/Office block will turn into something nice soon.
FWIW, It looks like the Backbeat closure was a case of being money whipped by Kemuri and not a failing business closure. I was a regular there and they always seemed to do a good business. My guess is the owners didn't want to manage a bar and after the falling out with Drink.Well got an offer they couldn't say no to. We're getting a new Tiki bar from the Kemuri team.