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Originally Posted by Komeht
Nothing against fast food companies developing urban forms (or popeyes - I like popeyes too). I thought it was amusing that 1. someone likes Airport Blvd, and 2. seems to believe installing sidewalks will somehow make it "walkable" (just don't touch the Popeyes!).
If Airport Blvd. w/sidewalks is a vision of walkable pedestrian oriented city then count me opposed.
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Amen to that! If there is going to be a fast food change on Airport, it should be because the new fast food joint is in the ground floor facing directly on the street of a new mixed use or residential mid rise that flanks the street. Airport should be lined with this type of development on the eastern side of the road. I'd love to see a mixture of residential and commercial on that corridor with an eye towards demolishing all of the blighted single story strip type structures between IH 35 and Highland Mall. I'd also like to see ACC cut a deal with UT to develop a hospital and medical school at the Highland Mall site or possibly in an adjacent underutilized parcel.