Posted Jan 25, 2008, 8:25 PM
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passion for patterns
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 10,258
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You're not full of anything. Everyone knows that he has a habit of being overly harsh with his opinions. With everything, time will tell what really happens. In national terms, Austin is unbelievably ripe for the picking, the combination of talent, amenities and affordability is absolute kismet at this time in history. Downtown is no exception. It may very well be that for every 10 new office parks in Williamson County, there may only be 1 new office building in the city, but there is going to be demand at some point.
If what some people were saying were really true, then Orange County and Riverside County would have empty suburbs next to new exurbs and would have no densification or Irvine/Glendale type neo-downtown clusters. In virtually all dynamic metropolitan areas, whether more urban or more suburban, downtown's growing, near-downtown's growing, and suburbia's growing, all at varying rates. There isn't a CBD left in any major city in the country that isn't attracting some kind of attention. The reason for this is that we have finally entered a new generation of thinking that places value in the city as an inherently good place to be.
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