Don't cry for me, Highland Village
Driving along FM407 for the first time in a few weeks tonight, I'm starting to get a sense of the enormity of the two side-by-side developments on the HV side of FM407 at FM2499. I've already blogged about the movie theaters and Barnes and Noble and all the other great stores going in on the NW corner of that intersection. But that Wal-Mart center (and all the auxiliary buildings) are starting to go up, and they look quite impressive. I know that development was a hard-fought battle in HV (and I know a lot of their people bemoaned the fact that FM already had the Target), but I think they'll be happy with these new stores when they're built and occupied.
posted by Chip Mahaney @ 11:26 PM
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And living just three blocks from the massive concrete addition, I beg to differ. In Flower Mound, the city's leaders did a fantastic job with planning their developments AWAY from peoples homes. Highland Village was piece mealed together for the benefit and personal agendas of it's leaders and their friends without consideration for those that live a stones throw from it. Yes the land was bound to be developed, but it should have been developed as outlined by the tax payer funded studies and not at the hands of four city council members who appear to have their hands in the cookie jar. The development is too big (on each side) for those parcels of land and should have been scaled down to compliment the area and out of consideration and respect for peoples homes. The Rolling Hills and Chapel Hills area should have all been developed commerical as well instead- then the development would not have been invasive to residential areas.
One thing I personally find as a slap in the face to the residents of Rolling Hills is that the Opus developer actually put an entrance to their massive fortress where Rolling Hills residents come out of their neighborhood. It's almost as if Rolling Hills is part of the development. I think that is in extremely bad taste.
The serenity that I once enjoyed is already gone and trying to get home requires a monster truck with all the traffic. Again, doing things the backwards Highland Village way. Maybe they should have worked on the infrastructure first???
Now we'll just sit back and watch all those tax dollars roll in. Is that before or after they gave Wal-Mart incentives? Hmmm.
And living just three blocks from the massive concrete addition, I beg to differ. In Flower Mound, the city's leaders did a fantastic job with planning their developments AWAY from peoples homes. Highland Village was piece mealed together for the benefit and personal agendas of it's leaders and their friends without consideration for those that live a stones throw from it. Yes the land was bound to be developed, but it should have been developed as outlined by the tax payer funded studies and not at the hands of four city council members who appear to have their hands in the cookie jar. The development is too big (on each side) for those parcels of land and should have been scaled down to compliment the area and out of consideration and respect for peoples homes. The Rolling Hills and Chapel Hills area should have all been developed commerical as well instead- then the development would not have been invasive to residential areas.
One thing I personally find as a slap in the face to the residents of Rolling Hills is that the Opus developer actually put an entrance to their massive fortress where Rolling Hills residents come out of their neighborhood. It's almost as if Rolling Hills is part of the development. I think that is in extremely bad taste.
The serenity that I once enjoyed is already gone and trying to get home requires a monster truck with all the traffic. Again, doing things the backwards Highland Village way. Maybe they should have worked on the infrastructure first???
Now we'll just sit back and watch all those tax dollars roll in. Is that before or after they gave Wal-Mart incentives? Hmmm.
I still wish we had a Half Price Bookstore INSTEAD of a chain like B & N!
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