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Originally Posted by arkhitektor
What is going on in this vast empty swath between Texas Tech and downtown?:
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That is the site of the Overton Park mixed-use development that will supposedly house 8000 people. A 325 acre neighborhood between the Tech campus and downtown that when finished later this year or in '08 I believe, will have apartments, lofts, restaurants, etc. The Centre at Overton Park is an apartment building that is already opened...
http://www.lubbockapartments.com/sea...unities_ID=219
As for that Wal-Mart, they kinda got in after the Overton Park plans were announced and a lot of people in Lubbock were pretty pissed about having a Wally World there...
http://www.sprawl-busters.com/search.php?readstory=1586