You guys need to read
Suburban Nation. If something had to be built on that plot (and something else would have been if The Domain wasn't), wouldn't you prefer it's mixed-use? It's all about "sprawling the right way", AKA building
urbanism. I feel like mixed-used development isn't getting enough love here. People take it for granted. We didn't see
any mixed-use development for
decades. Maybe half a century. Now we "hate" it when it finally shows up and it's not perfect? Ridiculous.
No, the Domain isn't another downtown. It's not
supposed to be. It's supposed to be just another neighborhood in a vast urban landscape (that doesn't exist yet). And that's not far out. That's home for me. That's my area of Austin. That's around where I grew up. So this part of Austin existed 25+ years ago. It's not like it's out in Round Rock or Buda or something. It's
INFILL.