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Old Posted May 28, 2007, 10:09 PM
AndresAndujar AndresAndujar is offline
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We visited and studied many districts around the country before fully visuallizing the potential for River North. Pearl District in Portland http://explorethepearl.com/ was formerly a railyard. It has been in redevelopment for 10-15 years. Now Portland's best retail is there... Nice density, mid to high rise. Schools still a problem, so family with kids are harder to accomodate. Vancouver is the only city I know of that is building a brand new school in the inner city. Also Cotswald District in Houston, State Thomas in Dallas, Fort Worth, Denver, Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, LA, Pasadena, etc.

River North will accomodate future mass transit. Broadway is phase II of the rubber tire train system to be implemented from the Westside Multimodal Facility. The first phase is downtown up Frederisburg, Medical Center to UTSA. Phase II is downtown up Broadway to the airport, 281 to 1604.

This is in addition to the heavy rail plan from the Westside Multimodal (possibly as far south as City South, Tx A&M - to Austin and Roundrock.

The rubber tire train up Frederisburg is scheduled to be completed by 2012.
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