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Originally Posted by migol24
of course there are surface parking lots in downtown austin... nobody here would deny that. but things can't just be done from night to day. given austin's current boom its doing quite an exceptional job. and it's not as if they've been tearing down buildings to replace them with parking lots. Those parking lots have been there for the last 2 or 3 decades. And if you've been following these forums as much as everyone here has been for the last several years Austin is working slowly but surely on fixing this "empty surface lots" issue. If you'd of gone to 2nd st back in 2004 that place was dead. There wasn't anything there at the time, but go there now and it's a total 180 turnaround and it's still growing.
Look up on all the designs posted, particularly Seaholm and Greenwater Treatment. 2nd St District and Seaholm will just be what you see now but continued and expanded. It's on its way and growing very rapidly. But there are other sorts of issues like the Capital View Corridor and financing that delays many projects from breaking ground. Things don't just happen. There's politics and money involved. I don't see how anybody would want it to go faster, because given the circumstances it already is. It's impossible for it to go any faster.
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Yeah it is a lot different from the last time I was there and in a positive way. I admit I haven't read much from the last couple of years with what they are doing with the "surface lots". Like I said it was just my initial impression with what I was expecting and what I experienced.
It feels like they are moving in the right direction, but I know it will take time.