Just getting off the phone with a council member, I’m contemplative of long term planning for North Austin. With JC Penney gone, surrounding buildings boarded and disused, but commuter rail rounding the corner, how long can it be before Wal-Mart makes an offer on its next underutilized shopping center – in this case, Highland Mall?

This article appears in 2006.

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