A Sea Of Red

i really wonder how the burg will be able to support all of this new retail growth, but it is exciting.

http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Sate ... 8307&path=

Yeah, there have been rezoning notices for a while now on the other side of McConville between the offices / industrial buildings (toward the Graves Mill end) and New Towne. That's where the second phase is going in. This thing is going to be huge.

Wow...this and that new Crossroads Colonnades mall should really make things around here more interesting. Not looking forward to the traffic on 501 though...ugh!!! But oh well...thats the price for progress.

God I hope they do something about the traffic on Lakeside Drive once this thing gets built, if they don't it might just take me over a half hour to get to LC, now it takes 15-20 minutes during rush hour and I only live 5 miles away

did you read the article????

The shopping center will require a new $20 million interchange with the Lynchburg Expressway, a $17 million interchange on the brand-new Lakeside Centre Parkway inside the center and $12.5 million in road, sewer and engineering work, developers said.

I don't think he likes reading....you know its funny...I always hear about the traffic over at the Lakeside/Old Forest intersection...but seriously, its not nearly as bad as the locals make it...its just bad for this area....

i've been witness to the city's so-called "traffic improvements" in my very neighborhood and other parts of Lynchburg that have actualyl made traffic worse, so i'm not sold when the city claims that their efforts will improve it.

it is a requirement for the development to be built!! it is not some traffic calming deal in a neighborhood that the city could put off for years.

I believe some of the improvements were already planned but the development has created a mechanism to get them done more quickly. That's a lot of retail fro a small city to absorb. The pie is only so big and while there is some leakage to Roanoke, Cville and Richmond I think it's only a small upper segment of the market.
They might as well warm up the bulldozers and flatten The Plaza. That turkey is done.

badger74 wrote:They might as well warm up the bulldozers and flatten The Plaza. That turkey is done.