A message to my neighbors in Central Austin and to any community that has had to live with the fallout from having a big box store push its way in.
The first spade of dirt has been turned. The bulldozers are busy. The piles of broken asphalt and dry earth are mounting up.
When I try to make my normal walk from my office at the Chase Tower around the Northcross triangle, I can’t. There is a metal fence with a plain green cloth stretched from the middle of the parking lot all the way to Anderson. I can’t see what is happening except through holes where the cloth doesn’t fit quite tightly enough to exclude me. [Read more…]