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I've got to agree with Kenneth here - the Manor/Elgin corridor is probably our best bet in Central Texas for a sustainable commuter line connecting transit-oriented development. I'd much rather see th...

There are lots of great Vietnamese sandwich options up north already - Lulu B's is hardly the end-all, be-all of Bahn Mi in Austin, even if they are the most expensive. Try Pho Van in the same Target...

I agree with you about ANA and RG4N's probable goals. Also they get to claim this as a win, whether it is or isn't, frankly. I always figured Lincoln and/or Walmart had backup plans to scale down. A...

What exactly was "urban" about a 200,000 square foot Wal-mart super center six miles from the city center in the first place? The parking garage? What would make more sense would have been for Wal-mar...

The problem I see with depression is the actual construction process - does anyone know how long it would take, and how many lanes of highway/lanes of frontage they would be able to keep open? A hypo...

By new condo dwellers I mean the condos they are building on Red River around 9th or 10th, not the ones over by Whole Foods or by the warehouse district. There aren't very many live music venues west ...

His answer on affordable downtown housing makes sense, unlike many of the other candidates. Sure, I'd love to pay $800/month for a deluxe apartment in the sky overlooking town lake two blocks off cong...

I was actually looking forward to having a nice outdoors music venue in Austin - now that Southpark Meadows is submerged under a sprawly wasteland of unneeded retail and the Backyard has a charming vi...

I've got to say that I didn't see the downside of letting them out of the ETJ - they were at the far reach of the ETJ, so they weren't going to end up as some weird enclave within Austin, and they wer...

I've got to say that I didn't see the downside of letting them out of the ETJ - they were at the far reach of the ETJ, so they weren't going to end up as some weird enclave within Austin, and they wer...

I'd argue that the Fix290 proposal isn't going to go anywhere because there are so many new developments going up around Dripping Springs. For some reason, in the past two years, it seems like five or...