tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498525082522582900.post2399675155087113448..comments2024-03-22T16:02:08.213-05:00Comments on The Wheel: State Farm Accident in the MakingMark Stegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02376182294736839659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498525082522582900.post-45787057710931257232013-07-11T13:41:39.472-05:002013-07-11T13:41:39.472-05:00And when I say Richardson residents were sold a bi...And when I say Richardson residents were sold a bill of goods, <a href="http://www.marksteger.com/2010/12/not-your-average-load-of-apartments_1188.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> is the bill of goods I mean. Go back and read that two-and-a-half year-old blog post. Spoiler alert: what we were sold was compared to "Watters Creek in Allen, West Village in Dallas or Legacy Town Center in Plano." Instead, we get another isolated, cookie cutter office tower.Mark Stegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02376182294736839659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498525082522582900.post-60472620609524298772013-07-11T13:17:17.477-05:002013-07-11T13:17:17.477-05:00The accident is as bad as I feared. The Dallas Mor...The accident is as bad as I feared. <i>The Dallas Morning News</i> has the <a href="http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2013/07/new-state-farm-complex-in-richardson-will-have-room-for-8000-workers.html/" rel="nofollow">story</a>.<br /><br />"KDC also will build apartments, retail space and a hotel."<br /><br />Only ten words devoted to anything other than office towers, followed immediately by more talk of office buildings:<br /><br />"'We are talking to businesses about a couple of office buildings across the street,' said KDC’s Toby Grove."<br /><br />Oops, that pushes retail (one of the necessary uses in "mixed-use") even farther away from those 8,000 State Farm employees, if any retail ever gets built in the end, anyway. They promised only 75,000 square feet. For comparison, that Walmart at Coit and Arapaho will be 90,000 square feet. This massive new development will have less retail than a single store in the tiny Spanish Village shopping center. I think Richardson has been sold a bill of goods.<br /><br />I'm beginning to hope that if the Cotton Belt Line ever gets built, it'll connect to a new station in Plano. Maybe Plano will do it right.Mark Stegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02376182294736839659noreply@blogger.com