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Ugh... unfortunately seems like the plug is about to get pulled...
Im in the minority on here, but I really would like for it to stay a mall. All the other suggestions people have offered up in here sound so incredibly vanilla...but hey, it is Cary so I guess those suggestions are fitting. smh
Copy Park West, the place that stole merchants from Cary Towne Center.
Honestly I agree with you. Take the Park West model but do it better. Park West's original vision had a lot less seas of asphalt parking and was a bit denser. The Preston NIMBYs got all uppity so they scaled back a bit.
Needed: Housing, parking deck, retail, decent restaurants, medical offices, grocer.
Sell the car and use heavily taxpayer-subsidized GoCary to get to other places.
Walk across the street to future Fenton, if you're employed there or can afford one of the planned restaurants.
Rent a car for beach trips?
Park West and The Bradford lead the way for mixed-use in Cary-Morrisvile. Bradford has a bus stop. Not sure about Park West. Morrisville's planned "downtown" has my doubts.
Parkside Town Commons is the most un-walkable mixed-use thing in the area, with goofy roads and parking. Cannot imagine any tenant walking from H-T with a sack of groceries.
That works... I'd just like a little more variation of retailers similar to what CTC offered/offers.
Agreed. I want Dillards and Macy's or Belk. I don't want to go to Durham or Raleigh to do my shopping. I don't care how they lay it out but I would like to see it offering decent shopping.
I would have loved to have lived in one of those mixed use places when I was younger. I was never really a city person, so having those conveniences in suburbia would have been nice.
Needed: Housing, parking deck, retail, decent restaurants, medical offices, grocer.
Sell the car and use heavily taxpayer-subsidized GoCary to get to other places.
Walk across the street to future Fenton, if you're employed there or can afford one of the planned restaurants.
Rent a car for beach trips?
Park West and The Bradford lead the way for mixed-use in Cary-Morrisvile. Bradford has a bus stop. Not sure about Park West. Morrisville's planned "downtown" has my doubts.
Parkside Town Commons is the most un-walkable mixed-use thing in the area, with goofy roads and parking. Cannot imagine any tenant walking from H-T with a sack of groceries.
The original plan for Parkside TC was much more mixed use as well, with the apartments over the retail, it got scaled back.
The original plan for Parkside TC was much more mixed use as well, with the apartments over the retail, it got scaled back.
Yeah, it's just crazy how dumbly the scaled it back though. Of all the possible configurations for a road network and where they located the residential in relationship to the Teeter/Target, so stupid and auto-centric.
Mixed use my two left feet.
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