North Loop 1-0

The North Loop saga has ended for now.

Posted on October 5, 2007 – 10:18 am by APR

  1. 10 Responses to “North Loop 1-0”

  2. Yes. The site is now safe for strip retail which won’t require a variance at all - hence no involvement from the NA, no amenities for the neighbors, etc. Good work.

    The delusion at “I Love North Loop” is amazing, as is the email from Clay to Sebastian in which he posits that the new stronger NA can fight off the next plan for the site. What part of “already zoned for strip retail” don’t you understand?

    By M1EK on Oct 5, 2007

  3. Please stop citing I Love North Loop as an authority for any purpose. They are now deleting any counterpoint comments, no matter how they are worded, no matter if they are from residents (I am one).

    This is not a win for Austin or for North Loop. It will not be a win in terms of land values, or traffic, or in terms of amenities, nor a win for neighborhood involvement in the planning process. The next developer will want nothing to do with us.

    By Josh on Oct 5, 2007

  4. Negative Nellies!

    Congrats to your neighborhood for stopping a 259 unit rental apartment bldng with too little parking allotment, no guarantees regarding negotiating with the neighborhood and a planned traffic increase of over 2000 cars onto residential streets every day.

    Way to deal with reality and not just wishing on a star or taking a developer’s word for it when he says “trust me”.

    And clay, don’t take M! seriously, as I was looking at other blogs and he is all for things like allowing variances on the setback at townlake. he even defended the developer’s fake website. so, i think his screeching has been adequately discredited by his own actions.

    Good Work NL.

    By uh huh on Oct 5, 2007

  5. “uh huh”,

    Yes, I speak consistently in favor of urban development. Big surprise. And, no, I didn’t defend the shell website; I asked why KG thought it was such a shell (because her first pass at the article didn’t say how she knew).

    I’ll put my record up against some anonymous paleoliberal who just popped up here any day of the week, thanks.

    By M1EK on Oct 5, 2007

  6. Paleoliberal? ha!

    ZING!

    I’m done. you lose. again.

    By uh huh on Oct 5, 2007

  7. I drove past the site on Koenig today and didn’t realize the gas company was right across Ave. F from the project and that Ave. F has a traffic light. You could have had traffic exiting on Koenig, Ave. F, and 56th right on to the alley and you would not be directly hitting anyone.

    How was traffic going to go in and out of the building and what was the problem?

    By el_longhorn on Oct 6, 2007

  8. The plan they wanted the neighborhood to approve had traffic exiting onto Link.

    By postmortem on Oct 7, 2007

  9. i thought they agreed that they would divert 56th street traffic east or west from their garage as opposed to Link. did i hear that wrong? is the deal dead?

    By R2D2 on Oct 7, 2007

  10. With an exit onto Ave. F, Koenig, and 56th, I don’t think there would have been traffic problems. I lived in the area around 51st and Duval for a while, and while some people would have cut through the neighborhood to get to the university, most 9-5ers are going to take 2222 to wherever they need to go…Lamar, I35, etc. Most students would take the shuttles anyway.

    I am surprised the investors were willing to build VMU in that area. It definitely would have been a boost to the area, which has been coming along OK. The Half Price Books is nice to have around the corner.

    By el_longhorn on Oct 8, 2007

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