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I don't see any changes on Airport other than different tenants in the same strip malls - Crestview is more on Lamar than Airport. Airport still feels more like an old highway than an urban street (even after some attempted facelifts over the years like the bike lane / shoulder). I'm not comparing to the way South Congress was 15 years ago; I'm comparing to the way Airport Blvd was 15 years ago. No real difference. And Mueller doesn't count - it's miles away from Highland.

The residential area west of Airport is largely separated from Airport itself (the railroad tracks are a big barrier in this area). And it's not turning hip and happening; they're actually regressing in the area in many ways (having a NIMBY battle over redeveloping the closed Howard nursery among other things). Very close to my home; I keep up to date on those guys - it's not changing very much at all.

Highland is 'convenient' to auto traffic in the Texas sense of the word - as long as you don't mind a choked frontage road and/or a bunch of turnarounds. It's kind of isolated by the 290/2222 intersection from downtown and points central, though. During the rush hours it's close enough in to be as much trouble as downtown for suburbanites, yet way too far out to be considered 'downtown' and benefit from being able to walk to all that stuff. (The existing auto traffic there is more of a negative for a possible future employer than a positive - that's the kind of logic more typically used to attract retailers, but even that obviously wasn't working well here, or we wouldn't be having this discussion, would we?)