[PeterParker]

I found this while reading up on my old stomping grounds, and found that the picture looked strikingly similar in style to LU's construction, when I looked around I found and old picture of what it looked like before and an after picture of how great it looks (this place has won national and international recognition...although it is a town center concept (new urbanism), when you compare the principles of a Town Center and a university layout, they aren't all that different.)


Here's the link http://www.mashpeecommons.com/ The site was having trouble uploading the photos I was going to post, but the two pics are on the link front page.


My immediate thought when looking at the shops on the sidewalk was how cool that would be if they built an aesthically pleasing parking deck in P1 and carved out shops like that on the three sides that wouldn't be directly facing the highway. There have to be businessess that would want to be that close to an eventual 25,000 student foot traffic (summer months notwithstanding)...if they would incorporate some of the Lifestyle Center concepts into the future development at LU that could make the campus top notch from an aesthetic standpoint. (Especially if the created commons areas where students could congregate to play music, throw frisbees--all the stuff you see when they depict college move-in day in movies.)

Think grass instead of pavement other than the necessary on campus roads.