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I disagree that the neighbors have had only a few weeks to articulate their vision. Northcross has been dead for a decade or more. It's only now that Wal-Mart is the other option that suddenly they've found the new urban gospel? This wasn't the first Northcross redevelopment proposal (remember the conference center one? I didn't hear the neighbors complaining much that time that a mixed use urban village wasn't moving in...)

Again, I'd _also_ very much like a project like the Triangle (more retail, though). And unlike rg4n, I didn't suddenly discover my love for high-density urban development right around the time Wal-Mart came calling.

But be serious: the area around the Triangle has a much higher residential density than does Allandale and North Shoal Creek and Wooten and Crestview. I would wager that it's going to be pretty hard to convince a developer to lay out the substantially higher urban-style dough in the middle of so much low-density development.