Domain/North Austin Development Updates

[murfnut]

The problem is that the land was an old IBM plant that was started in the 60s on a farm out in the middle of no where. The roads within IBM did not follow a grid pattern. Instead IBM had this outer circle and ball fields and other stuff, no real pattern. The domain then worked with what was already existing. The first section is where the ballfields were and second section was on the other side of the power lines. The rockrose/whole foods area was where the big manufacturing section was.

Also 045 because of its location prevented a straight road from braker into the domain, instead we get this odd turn after entering.

Hopefully when the bulk of Robinson Ranch gets built, it will have a nice grid pattern since they have a blank slate for most of the land.

By the way I have worked here for 30 years before 183 was a highway and mopac stopped at 183. I remember when IBM sold the land. The original plan for the domain changed after the high tech bust of 2000. It was originally going to just be a tech center. That is why its called the Domain. Then it was changed into a high end shopping area with apartments, then as the economy took off especially with high tech and the new office buildings became the big thing. WFoods was going to be a tower similar to the one on 6th street.