[KevinFromTexas]

Mueller is a complete and total disappointment.

By the way, my mom works up at the Petsmart at Mueller. She says there is NOTHING to eat around there. There's a Which Wich and some other place to eat, but no restaurants and even the fast food options are slim to none. I was talking about how they should have placed 4 and 5 story buildings there with retail on the first or 2nd floors topped by office space, residential and hotel space and had restaurants at street level. My mom's usually cold the idea of urbanism, but she did see my point in how badly they used the land they had available to them. Even within that relatively small area (Mueller is ~700 acres), she would have to drive anywhere there to find food, and would likely have to go outside of Mueller. This is because she doesn't have enough time on her lunch break considering how few options there are there. It's nice that an HEB is coming there, but it's more of the same apparently.

My brother on the other hand works for a company in a rented space along 5th Street I believe just east of downtown. He said a few days ago that he had ordered some sandwiches from the Jimmy John's at 6th & Congress. He said they don't deliver to areas east of downtown since their delivery guys ride bicycles. So my brother asked if they would meet him at the Lottery Commission near 5th & Sabine. They agreed, and my brother walked over. In less than 15 minutes he said the guy was already there walking out of the Lottery Commission building thinking that's where he would be. He had 6 sandwiches ready in less than 15 minutes. My brother told me the more time he spends working in and around downtown and enjoying his commutes, the less he enjoys the suburbs.