Austin @ Large: Big-Box Breakdown

Impact? What impact? The city's slothful retail strategy.

"...week and asked one VIP to comment on the big-box retail study presented to the City Council last week...."

July 9, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

More Big-Box Brawling

Battle brewing in Lakeway over putting big-box store on city-owned land

"...A battle is brewing in Lakeway over putting a big-box store on city-owned land on State Highway 71, land..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin @ Large: The Big-Box Big Deal

Little things mean a lot, but design standards aren't simply superficial

"...souls than you have spent Mad March cogitating over big-box retail and its discontents. City staffers, consultants, boards and..."

April 2, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Put That in Your Big Box and ...

Activist groups beg to differ with the city's big-box report

"...to ask for a study of the impact of big-box retail, it seemed clear what such a study would..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Big-Box Ban Bollixes Up Lowe's Plans

The City Council's moratorium slows down the hardware giant's settlement deal

"...A 45-day moratorium on big-box retail projects over the Edwards Aquifer has thrown a..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Follow the Bouncing Big Box

Big Box ordinance winds its way back to council

"...allow a single, combined public hearing for 1) the big-box retail conditional-use permit and 2) rezoning. But with the..."

Jan. 15, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Follow the Bouncing Big Box

Amended version of Big Box Ordinance bounces back down from council to the Planning Commission, hangs in review limbo

"...allow a single, combined public hearing for 1) the big-box retail conditional-use permit and 2) rezoning. Advocates at Liveable..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

A Big Box Full of Big Boxes

The latest on the Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Eckerd's controversies

"...it doesn't jibe with the neighborhood plan for small retail and residential development. More significantly, neighborhood activists fear that..."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Big Boxing at Mueller

Could Mueller's 'Smart Growth' include big-box retail?

"...of creating a utopian "city within a city" with retail, office, and homes peacefully coexisting side by side...."

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Point Austin: Thinking Outside the Box

Stacy Mitchell examines the megaretail culture and the tools required to dismantle it

"...My favorite anecdote in Stacy Mitchell's new book, Big-Box Swindle, is self-referential. Discussing the buying power of the..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...Hues Corporation alone might be worth the price of retail to some, but for our money, we wish they..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Reining in the Mother of All Big Boxes

Local activists seek community-wide benefits analyses of big-box proposals

"...in the approval process. And with few exceptions, the retail demigod has plopped a big box down at every..."

May 27, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Don't Box Northcross In

"...facilities. Moreover, it is a capstone to the Burnet retail corridor, a street that keeps Austin, well, Austin. For..."

June 21, 2006 Postmarks

Big in Austin, Big in Japan

If a holiday gift trend is big here this year, chances are, it was already big over there

"...to turn the head. With different collections at several retail locations, prices range from $120-$575. Masliyah can be reached..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Updating the Big Eight

Austin's Torch-Bearing Indies

"...and challenges in breaking into more conventional radio and retail outlets. And like Trance, Watermelon is celebrating an anniversary..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Music Feature

Austin Reaches Biodiesel Big Leagues

New local partnership makes Austin biodiesel pump headquarters

"...between local biodiesel distributor Austin Biofuels and local fuel retailer Triple S Petroleum, Austin now has more B20 biodiesel..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

What can Austin do to combat the powercenter plague? More than you might think.

"...of sorts: What did the Irishman do in the big-box superstore? Nothing. There aren't any big-box stores in Ireland...."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Four months late, the findings are both incomplete and inconclusive

"...findings of a commissioned study of the impact of big-box retail on Austin's economy and infrastructure. And those findings..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Once again, only Mayor Will Wynn votes no.

"...committed $45,000 to study the local impact of national big-box retail chains in Austin, with Mayor Will Wynn casting..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

The Lakeway ban, the Lowe's deal, and the aquifer size cap

"...The Lakeway City Council on Monday echoed voters' anti-big-box sentiment with a 6-0 rejection of a new zoning..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Forget the little boxes -- it's the big boxes we need to knock down

"...because I know that his disgust with the tilt-wall big-box bullshit that runs rampant around the region is quite..."

Oct. 3, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Estate Sale Roundup: October 24-26

Check your shocks before you buy old clocks.

"...Why spend top dollar in big-box retail chains to stock your home? Check out these..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Developing Stories

Big Box, Back Off!; Las Manitas Swirls On; and Bucking the City

"...Austin moved one step closer to enacting a new "big-box ordinance" Tuesday, when the Planning Commission voted 8-0 to..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Business leaders freak out over the city's proposed retail size cap over the aquifer.

"...City Council approves an ordinance limiting the size of big-box retail development on environmentally sensitive lands over the Edwards..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Welcome Back, Kirk

Kirk Watson's new job at the chamber stands at odds with his "message" as mayor.

"...elite today?" I have my own misgivings about a big-box ban over the aquifer -- qualms that, when viewed..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...is partnering with developer Bill Walters to build a retail center on Sunset Valley's last piece of "grandfathered" property,..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Beast Wins a Round

Preliminary approval -- but still grave concern -- for two South Austin Supercenters

"...on the social, economic, and neighborhood impact of super-sized retail big boxes in Austin...."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Austin's chain store vs. local business battle is economic and political.

"...many of the same people so noisily fighting the big-box invasion -- to give the city grief over changes..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Mueller (see below), and to doing ... something about big-box retail, which does ... something to the Austin economy...."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...eyed by presumptive master-developer Catellus Austin as a regional retail center. A compromise position now circulating would restore the..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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