Phase III mockingbird station

[SDORN]

Okay I know there was a thread on this, but I can't find it.

so please admin Please feel free to attach this to the correct thread if needed.

Here is an Updated photo of the Mockingbird site phase III

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4733/phaseiiiunderwayda4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Shot with SP-2000 (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=SP-2000&make=FUJI+PHOTO+FILM+CO.%2C+LTD) at 2007-07-21

[I45Tex]

thanks, Scott!

[carousel]

If this is phase III, what is phase II

[Uptown72]

Anyone know what shops are going in here? Looks like a lot more parking to alleviate the entire center. Any rumors as to office on top or something else?

[Random Traffic Guy]

Just curious, as I've heard people complain about parking before, when does it get full, or at least the most crowded? I only visit occasionally, but have had no trouble with office visitor parking (from that horrible entrance off of US75 NBFR), lunchtime parking on the surface lot, or the occasional movie night in the garage. Seems the garage always has spaces, where am I wrong?

[TexasStar]

Funny, talking about parking woes at Mockingbird "Station".

[downtownguy25]

Every time I have been there parking has never been an issue. I think alot of people forget about the parking garage. When driving I normaly shoot right for it, quicker than slowly trying to find a surface spot. Also nice to know the car will not be baking in the sun all afternoon.

[LH_Newbie]

I always park in the garage, too. Cooler - and plenty of spaces.

[vman]

The parking has always been my only complaint about Mockingbird Station. I can't stand the head-in parking located within the development. Those areas should have been pedestrain only with trees, fountains, and artwork. There's plenty of parking garages and surface parking for cars. Those open areas should have been for people, not automobiles.

[MarkL2023]

The parking has always been my only complaint about Mockingbird Station. I can't stand the head-in parking located within the development. Those areas should have been pedestrain only with trees, fountains, and artwork. There's plenty of parking garages and surface parking for cars. Those open areas should have been for people, not automobiles.

Those surface parking spaces are what make the development so successful in my mind. I will use Snider Plaza to explain why. The business owners are all revolting against the proposed development because itll turn snider plaza into what you wanted mockingbird station to be. Though thats great for pedestrian shopping, its horrible for the convenience factors that the stores love and enjoy. Suddenly, a quick stop at starbucks turns into headin into a parking garage and walking across the whole place when all you want is a cup of coffee for the road. We may not agree with it and wish that it would be different but thats the way we are in Dallas. We dont have the density to support parking like that in most areas, mockingbird station being one of them.

[eburress]

^^ I think that's a really good point. I completely agree. Sometimes our love of urbanity makes us forget that there were some valid reasons why US cities developed the way they did.

[SDORN]

Here is one from last night?

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3531/mockingbirdphaseiii2xg7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Shot with Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=Canon+EOS+DIGITAL+REBEL+XTi&make=Canon) at 2007-07-27

[galore]

Those surface parking spaces are what make the development so successful in my mind.

Is it really such a big factor? I can _never_ find a surface parking spot in front of the shop that I want to got to at a popular development like Mockingbird Station or West Village and always end up parking in the Parking Garage anyways.

[MarkL2023]

Is it really such a big factor? I can _never_ find a surface parking spot in front of the shop that I want to got to at a popular development like Mockingbird Station or West Village and always end up parking in the Parking Garage anyways.


I agree with you because I think Ive used one of those spots maybe twice, and once it was late at night goin to one of the lfots so that doesn't really count. BUT, stores don't care about aesthetics as much, they care about what gets customers in the door. Plain and simple, having 100 cars right outside the stores is a big deal for them. My personal thoughts are that most of the stores would penefit from a plaza/park type place because then it becomes a place where you stop for a while and just walk around. I guess that means starbucks and that ice cream place benefit the most but I would imagine the window shopping would increase for all the stores, except maybe west elm.

We may also have to look at the station with a "if it aint broke" attitude though. Why would they rip out all the parking for a park if they are already cramming the people in? Maybe if one of these type of shopping centers does replace the parking with a plaza and its successful, the rest will follow?

[palchik]

New rezoning signs just went up along the property just north of Mockingbird Station (the parking lot for Everest College and the Double Tree Hotel). The signs say that the proposed new zoning is PD-TOD (Transit Oriented Development).

[mrowl]

Anyone know what shops are going in here? Looks like a lot more parking to alleviate the entire center. Any rumors as to office on top or something else?

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/041307dnbusmockingbird.dde352.html

Lululemon is signed. Cool store.

[grantboston]

This might not be the right space for this question, but here goes:

Does anyone else find it strange that the space immediately adjacent to the Angelica and the DART tracks has NEVER been leased?

You would think that a restaurant or something catering to people getting on and off the train might go in there, yet we're left with nothing.

[msutton]

I would have thought it would be a perfect location for a coffee shop. Anyone coming from the train would be right there, for a quick bottle of water or a pick-me-up, and so many people (against the rules, I think?) park in the DART lot and then walk across to Mockingbird Station... Maybe they're just asking too much for it.