Townhomes: Why not in Flower Mound?
Good story with photos in today's Star-Telegram on the growing popularity of townhomes in northeast Tarrant County.
Southlake has allowed townhomes near the Southlake Town Center. Now there are upper-end projects in places like Colleyville, Bedford, North Richland Hills and Irving. In Colleyville, the prices are over $400,000 for the new projects, but they can go as low as the $100,000's in other suburbs.
My wife and I spent last evening at the new FOX Sports Grill at the new Shops of Legacy mixed-use development in Plano. Like the West Village near downtown, the Legacy development is a mixture of upper-end restaurants, residential, retail, and it includes an Angelika theater. It's a beautiful project.
I know we have a love for low-density residential, and I'm glad our Town holds that as an ideal. But I think mixing high-end townhomes with these high-end retail projects is an idea that should come to Flower Mound. Not everyone wants to mow a lawn, and it's obvious from the examples in the previous paragraph that more upscale people are choosing to live in these retail/residential developments.
Want to go beyond the strip mall? This is how you do it.
posted by Chip Mahaney @ 10:15 AM
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2 Comments:
I agree -- we, as a society, need to re-evaluate our urban planning so that we can put a halt to the urban (and waistline) sprawl that we've inflicted on our kids. Adding some mixed-use residential and some SIDEWALKS to our town will give us and our kids more options (like walking to the store to pick up some milk -- didn't we do that as kids?!).
I second the sidewalks part.
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