What Would $720 Million for Transportation Buy?
City Council mulls the "Go Big" bond in preparation for the November ballot
By Nick Barbaro, Fri., Aug. 5, 2016
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Airport Boulevard Corridor Report
Airport Blvd. (from N. Lamar to U.S. 183)Study dated Feb. 2014. Cost estimate: $74.4M. Proposed funding: $75M.
This ambitious plan would rehab the entire length of this great diagonal corridor that runs through a number of distinctive streetscapes: From Crestview Station at North Lamar, to ACC's new Highland Mall development and the growing Travis County offices complex, to Mueller's southwest edge, to the long commercial stretch south of MLK, it's a thoroughfare that transects and connects a variety of land uses and income levels. As with Lamar/Burnet, this plan is probably about half-funded by the proposed bond, but with multiple rail stops, current and future "transit-oriented developments," and multiple institutional landowners, it probably has more potential funding partners. See "Preparing for Takeoff," Oct. 21, 2011, for a detailed look at the Upper Airport Boulevard Redevelopment Initiative, which informed much of the later corridor report.
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