What's being built over there?

Over there and over there and there and there and there? So much dirt is turning over in Flower Mound right now, particularly along 2499 north of 1171, it's hard to keep up. Used to be, you had to file an open records request with the Town (or go to the right meeting) to get a copy of the Active Applications report published by the Town Planning Staff. This document tracks all the building projects that are past the application stage and not yet past the Council-approval stage. But thanks to Town staffers, these vital documents are now available to be viewed online, anytime.

Save this link: http://www.flower-mound.com/planning/case_log.pdf. Check out the report every few weeks to keep on top of what's going where.

Another: http://www.flower-mound.com/bldginsp/bldg_stat.php. This page on the Town website lets you look up Certificates of Occupancy that the Town issues to businesses, even those that simply rent space in strip centers.

No time to check out the full reports? Here are the highlights:

• Much of the house tear-downs along FM2499 between FM1171 and Rippy Road will become office parks and the like.
  
• A new Market Street supermarket (smaller than Central Market, but with both staples and gourmet items) is coming to the northwest corner of Forums Drive and FM1171. That's almost across the street from Sprouts, right? Here's a good 2003 article about what Market Street is all about.
  
• Red Robin is building a restaurant in that new JCPenney shopping center, at the southwest corner of FM2499 and Dixon. There's a Red Robin in Grapevine. The chain is big in Seattle, but I used to eat at the Red Robin in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, all the time when I worked near there. Pretty good food - competitor to TGIFridays and Chili's.
  
• If you're a customer of Cingular or MetroPCS wireless service, you might soon get better reception. Both companies are asking to build more towers (or put additional poles on existing towers) in Flower Mound. Cingular wants one in Bridlewood.