Southside's Tapestry Park

[Anti redneck]

Brown could learn from this area if he really wants to develop downtown.

[simms3]

Not sure how much Brown or any downtown officials could learn from Tapestry Park when deciding what to do with downtown.  The city could learn in general from Tapestry Park and should do its best to promote replications everywhere with transit and walkable corridors connecting all the developments.  Downtown I would think is a completely different beast with so many other examples.

Tapestry Park = good example for suburbs and land planning.

[simms3]

And to add - I think Tapestry Park is great by itself, but not so sure how well it actually fits in with its surroundings, or if it's even possible to develop something that "fits" in seamlessly with our suburban areas.  It's not like you can just walk from Tapestry Park to somewhere else.

[thelakelander]

I like Tapestry Park but I think the development itself could have been influential on the surrounding land uses if the center was designed around Deer Lake Drive instead of being interior focused.  Phases I and II are pretty disconnected.  It didn't have to be that way, although I doubt the development team really cared about its ability to stimulate similar infill around it.

[finehoe]

...I doubt the development team really cared about its ability to stimulate similar infill around it.

And that's a problem.  There must be ways to stimulate and reward developers who do care about such things.