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AN URBAN-DEVELOPMENT EXPERT’S TAKE ON THE TOWN CENTER PROJECT

An urban design consultant hired by the city, Ken Narva of StreetWorks, has told the developers of Lake Highlands Town Center that the project’s original plans, mapped out before the economic downturn, are no longer viable. First of all, notes Narva, the project shouldn’t even be called Lake Highlands Town Center. “A Town Center implies a shopping center,” he says. “This is a 70-acre district.” He proposes the “Lake Highlands Mixed-Use District”.

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JUNE 2 ADVOCATEBACKTALK BLOG, “CONSULTANT: ‘TOWN CENTER IS NOT A TOWN CENTER’”, BY CHRISTINAHUGHES BABB

COMMENTS:

Good luck getting us all to not call it the Town Center since that’s what it has been called for years already. Besides, the acronym for mixed-use development is MUD. “Meet you at the MUD” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as Town Center. —GM

I think that when the consultant suggested changing the name to Lake Highlands Mixed Use District, he wasn’t strongly suggesting a name change as much as a change in the way we perceive the project.

—CHRISTINAHUGHES BABB

A consultant from StreetWorks presented plans to for the a mixed-use district.

I believe that the best and the brightest, and market forces, have gotten us where we are today. I also believe that homeowners here are also stakeholders, and we are correct to be skeptical about some of our development that may be good for investors in the short term, but bad for us in the long term.

—ELLEN RAFF

I think there are some folks within the community that are very vocal that want what they want and really believe there is a sufficient number of affluent households to support it, but I would argue that, and the current state of many of our shopping centers and local businesses would argue that, we have too much retail square footage (and as much as this hurts to say) to be supported by our current demographics.

—LHNEWBIE

Find the entire post along with Street-Works’ Lake Highlands Town Center assessment and more comments at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/towncenter

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LISTEN to Advoate Back Talk bloggers discuss the proposed Lake Highlands Town Center changes on the Lake Highlands podcast.