"In the retail, we are looking for about four restaurants. We are
trying to make it a neighborhood community center. It will have salons,
dry cleaners... maybe a bike shop," said Stan Erwin, Trammell Crow
Company.
The project also includes about 900 apartment homes and more than 500 single family houses.
Erwin says it will be very pedestrian friendly -- people can just park
their car and leave it. "That's what we're hoping. That is what we are
hoping for -- less and less dependence on your vehicle and more
dependency on alternative forms of travel," he said.
Many
people who work at the businesses right across the street from the
project are excited about it. They say it should help to bring in new
customers and create an economic boost to the entire area.
"I think it will be an incredible boom because they are doing so much
over there," said Phil O'Cawvey, Texas Discount Furniture.
The 75 acre lot used to house a chemical research facility.
Brad Maples, a developer with Trammel Crow Company, says workers had to
remove about 120 buildings, dig up buried waste and remove all of the
contaminated soil.
"Almost two years of work and one year of planning. [I'm] happy that we made that milestone," he said.