Preston Center

In Part One, you learned about the final plan to be delivered to the city by the Preston Center Task Force.  It’s been two years in the making and cost $300,000 to produce a plan with little substance and holes a developer could drive a truck through. Here in part two, we’ll finish out by…

If I could sum up this final report by the Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan task force, it would be that it took two years and $300,000 to identify what will cost the city even more money and more time to actually attempt to solve. But that’s what you get when a group…

Part One began with a look into the specifics of the latest round of data buttressing the Preston Center Area Plan by Kimley-Horn.  Of all the zones represented, Zones 1 and 4 are the two with the most potential. Part One was an overview of Zone 1 while this installment covers Zone 4 and some…

Last week, I wrote about the hijacking of the Preston Center Area Plan by the task force members.  But what did the Kimley-Horn recommendations say?  Those attending the meeting only got the barest taste before the meeting was turned over to the task force mob. While it’s important to understand the consultants’ conclusions, most won’t…

“Train Wreck.”  “Waste of Time.”  “Squandered Money.” “Are you eff-ing kidding me?” These were the thoughts screeching across my brain as I sat in last night’s Preston Center Task Farce Force meeting. Sixteen months and $350,000 later and we’re officially at the exact same place we were sixteen months ago, less $350,000. After the last…