At the city council meeting on Tuesday, the council voted 8-1 to approve tax breaks for the Village at Camp Bowie, the New Urbanist makeover planned for the shopping center of the same name. The council’s vote was 8-1, with only Chuck Silcox voting against the breaks.
The Village at Camp Bowie plan will add a hidden parking garage and nearly 300 apartments over new ground-floor retail space, making the property into a true mixed-use urban center. While I can’t help but admire Silcox sticking to his guns (even if I disagree with his vote), I’m glad the project passed the council - this will be a big push in the right direction for Camp Bowie and the Ridglea urban village, and will start guiding development on the boulevard into a properly urban path. It’s also another positive development to help the light rail proposal.
I’ll bring you more on the Village at Camp Bowie project as it becomes available.
on Nov 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
It looks like the developers have canned the garage plans. The building in the back that was going to be demolished as part (La Playa)is under going a facelift. I guess the garage can move further West and scale it down but he Lay Playa people said the deal was dead.