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Originally Posted by StoOgE
Well, the thing to remember is that the Domain is a mall. A mall with wine bars and resteraunts that is open late and you can live there if you just really love the mall. Also, there are hotel there. In case you ever woke up and were like "Man, you know what I'd love? To vacation at a mall". It has some nightlife until around 12PM most nights because of North and that wine bar next to North. The rest of it is pretty dead after 9PM-10PM.
But it's not really urban. I mean, even if you lived there and you wanted to go to the new whole foods once it opens you would basically have to drive to the Whole Foods and then drive back to your apartment.
The upside is, it will probably help redevelop a part of town that needed it. With the Pickle research center taking up a large swath of space it would take a large scale destination like this to anchor redevelopment. IIRC it replaced a driving range.
All that said, I really like Barneys. They sell Nudie Jeans :p
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Yes, that's the contention that's being made. Many include the Domain, or at least some here on ssp, as a neighborhood, when what we are saying is that it is nothing more than just a shopping mall with condos.
Its original plan was intended to be a 2nd downtown. The current plans would be to develop the entire area just like the Domain. So imagine if the entire area becomes one huge block of a mall and all of it is designed to where no transportation passes through it. Essentially the entire area from Mopac to Braker Ln would be catered to rich people who drive to it in their Prius. That doesn't sound like a good plan at all.
The entire area was envisioned to promote density and mixed-use projects. What its beginning to sound like, is the same thing that happened in the 60s when they built I-35 segregating essentially the minorities from downtown. Only instead of a freeway, you're building wide parking lots and make it increasingly difficult for foot traffic to get there.