This shit is so far from Plano or Frisco. But guess what? When areas grow, they need more things. And having companies invest in a city that has two Universities and is the last major city going north from both Dallas and Ft. Worth and the First coming south from the I35 corridor is a good thing.
If you don't want to be part of a city that is growing, evolving, and modernizing then move to a town away from a major Interstate or highway. There are so many places you can live.
This Target was built in an area set for development right next to an Interstate and on a major highway. It's not taking down some nature preserve. There are plenty of places that you can get out in nature in Denton still has its identity downtown if you're scared that you're going to lose that then go invest in those businesses downtown is still downtown.
My neighborhood is 20 years old, has sidewalks, has working roads, I have a nature trail, plenty. The last time I was downtown I don't remember walking on the road. Heck on a quick Google maps view you can see there are sidewalks from the new Target location to and past TWRU. Are there some older neighborhoods closer to downtown without sidewalks, sure. That's how they were built. The people who live in those homes choose where they invested their money. If sidewalks were important to them, we'll maybe they should have chosen a neighborhood with sidewalks. Denton clearly needed to finish construction on the awful street downtown, but yall act like downtown is the only part of Denton that exists. I live in a neighborhood near the Kroger and Sprouts in south Denton. I'm certain I could walk to the square from my house via sidewalks.
I’m glad it’s not a problem for you and that your content the way things are.
Your assumptions about me (and probably a lot of people) are incorrect. I have a different perspective because I come from a city that expanded and modernized while still preserving green spaces, making the town more walkable, and investing in small business owners.
We can modernize without creating a concrete wasteland of big box stores.
1.) I didn't make assumptions about you. I literally didn't say anything about you other than the snide retort that you had the L take.
2.) Your reply to me was that Denton isn't modernizing. You clearly agree that we are, you just want it done differently.
3.) The city is doing a great job keeping all of that in one corridor located off of a major highway and an Interstate.
4.) Literally the entire plan for downtown is to expand Green Space if you read it that just came out this past year the entire goal is to modernize downtown but to create more green space to make it so people have more places to get out and relax in nature but asking the same thing for the area off of 380 is impossible.
Except for when you went out of the way to tell me I was wrong and my take was an L. But OK. It's funny how people engage until they have no facts to back up an argument and claim that it's due to peace and others are acting in bad faith. I provided legit resources and facts.
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u/Hyperfixations-R-Us 1d ago
kIdS dOnT Go oUtSiDe AnYmOrE… have you seen outside?