BookPeople !!

A Bookstore is an excellent addition to the list!! How about BookPeople ?


I wanted to suggest Kirby Lane, even though it's a 24-hour store.

I was wondering if the Circle C Cafe was considering moving into this center. They have a nice enough place at the pool, but they are pretty crowded. I really like their delivery service - I use it a lot for last minute dinner orders. I'd hate to lose their services to a pizza chain store, but I'm certain that we'll end up with one of those, if we can't block out the fast-food joints.

I'd love a decent neighborhood pub, too. A place for adults, maybe something like a dinner club, with a membership option to attract regular, neighborhood people (i.e. with a big discount). Also, we desperately need a place that has a couple of large meeting rooms. I know several church groups that can never find seating around here.


Thanks for sharing your ideas - keep them coming in.

Maybe Stratus will put up a web site for suggestions, too. It would make their job easier to automate it, rather than sort through gobs of email.....

Merry Christmas, Ya'll

is Alligator Grill a chain 2 ?

I love Cajun food and I don't know a better place for boiled shrimp. They have pretty good local music, too. (I'd go more if I could handle the smoke.....what happened to that No Smoking Ordinance Betty ?)

PF Changs

I know it's a chain. What does that have to do w/ opening a rest. in this development? It also has GREAT food.

Bring your store request tonight

Tonight is the time and place to bring your list of stores for the new Escarpment Village project. So far, only HEB is certain, but they will have room for 6-10 more stores and resturants.

Instead of the usual stuff, lets suggest something we can't find easily in our area. My suggestions include sit-down resturants that have meeting rooms large enough to accomadate meetings for civic and church groups. We can get that without resorting to the cookie-cutter chain stores. Austin has plenty of excellent local choices, anxious to expand into our area.

Bring your own ideas and your list to the meeting where Stratus Properties and H-E-B repesentatives will be present.

If you don't participate, you can anticipate that they will march off to city hall an announce that the neighborhood trusts their judgement.

Instead, lets push for some committments. They won't put anything on paper - I can almost gurrantee that. However, they will have to make some concessions and commitments to gain the ''GR'' zoning aproval that they need and that public hearing is coming up in the next few weeks.

I'd like to see CCR endorse this project before it comes up for zoning, but the excessively large store size (20% larger than other established neighborhood HEBs in Austin and the request for drive-up businesses which opens the door to fast food stores - both worry many of us).

What is CCHOA doing ? So far, nothing. They seem content to sit back and watch the trees come down. Are you ???