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Thanks for the video Buckett...most of it sounds good...retro-fitting dead big boxes & parking lots is a good idea; several places around BR come to mind...not sure if they would all work?? The Be

itsjustme3
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lol! You're my fav new poster!! But you may want to lay off him just a bit. It's not like anyone here takes anything he says seriously.

richyb83
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A neighborhood the size of Settlement at Willow Grove(with retail in their mixed-use Village Center) should have another way out besides just Perkins Road...a back street with a R.R grade crossing cou

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Stop being such a negative nancy...gosh. Does not matter how expensive the homes are, just be happy it's actually being built.

This comment proves you have no sense of currency. I have the feeling that you are a teen, in a rich kid school. You have no value for anything because you have never worked for anything in your life. 

 

It's fools like you that make so many things terrible.

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This comment proves you have no sense of currency. I have the feeling that you are a teen, in a rich kid school. You have no value for anything because you have never worked for anything in your life.

It's fools like you that make so many things terrible.

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lol! You're my fav new poster!!

But you may want to lay off him just a bit. It's not like anyone here takes anything he says seriously.

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Still can not believe these two nice developments will NOT connect....hopefully the Perkins-Picardy Connector Road begins sooner rather than later.

 

Settlement at Willow Grove and The Grove TNDs filling in fast

 

Richard Carmouche, who's developing both the 112-acre Settlement at Willow Grove and the 118-acre The Grove—two adjacent traditional neighborhood developments located between Siegen Lane and Bluebonnet Boulevard southeast Baton Rouge—says both projects are filling in quickly and that announcements on new commercial tenants will be made soon.
 

A total of 257 lots have been sold at The Willow Grove development off Perkins Road, Carmouche says, most of which have homes completed on them or going up. All but five of 50 additional lots being developed at the TND have also been pre-sold, he adds. The lots will be ready for development by the end of August, and Carmouche anticipates having them up for sale by the end of the year and built out sometime in 2015.

"Then I have about 30 townhomes up front that we'll come back and build at some point, and that will round up to 400 homes" for Willow Grove, Carmouche says. "Then we're starting the condos."
 

The 65 residential condos will be scattered throughout six mixed-use buildings that will make up the Village Center at Willow Grove and will house another crucial component of the TND—commercial tenants. In addition to Bistro Byronz, which is on track to open in September, the Village Center will also welcome a dress shop, a package food takeout eatery and a gift shop, Carmouche says. The leases for those three tenants are still being prepared, he says, but should be finalized by the end of next week.

 

The Grove, meanwhile—which is fronted by Interstate 10 and located just across the railroad tracks from Willow Grove, adjacent to the Mall of Louisiana—will bring its own share of commercial tenants and residential units, Carmouche says. One such tenant, a trampoline park and party venue called Area 51, will offer activities such as trampoline dodge ball, foam pits, dunk hoops and an aerial obstacle course, according to its Facebook page.

 

*rest of article*

http://www.businessreport.com/article/20140506/BUSINESSREPORT0112/140509886

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Why is it not some sort of code violation to not connect large scale developments? Welcome the brake lights and fender benders.

Who says they need to be connected? Why would you want to connect one development that focuses on retail with another development that focuses on homes? Not to mention they are separated by a rail line.

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Who says they need to be connected? Why would you want to connect one development that focuses on retail with another development that focuses on homes? Not to mention they are separated by a rail line.

Traffic patterns. The same reasons why most streets in Capitol Heights (residential) are connected to Government St (retail). Time and time again we build developments with traffic having only one or two entrance points on major streets. 

 

In that case, why did they build a Perkins Rd entrance to Perkins Rowe when there's on already on Bluebonnet?

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A neighborhood the size of Settlement at Willow Grove(with retail in their mixed-use Village Center) should have another way out besides just Perkins Road...a back street with a R.R grade crossing could easily connect to The High Grove....which connects to Mall of La Blvd; The High Grove will have 192 residential units & 25,000 sq ft off retail/office space....that hardly constitutes focusing on retail...it's called mixed-use for a reason.  Settlement at Willow Grove will include condo's as well as houses.

 

Wish I had more time tonight to draw up some Google sketch....

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A neighborhood the size of Settlement at Willow Grove(with retail in their mixed-use Village Center) should have another way out besides just Perkins Road...a back street with a R.R grade crossing could easily connect to The High Grove....which connects to Mall of La Blvd; The High Grove will have 192 residential units & 25,000 sq ft off retail/office space....that hardly constitutes focusing on retail...it's called mixed-use for a reason.  Settlement at Willow Grove will include condo's as well as houses.

 

Wish I had more time tonight to draw up some Google sketch....

Looking at googlenet maps they could create a boulevard in the back connecting the Grove and Mall. Lot's of developmental opportunities. 

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Traffic patterns. The same reasons why most streets in Capitol Heights (residential) are connected to Government St (retail). Time and time again we build developments with traffic having only one or two entrance points on major streets.

In that case, why did they build a Perkins Rd entrance to Perkins Rowe when there's on already on Bluebonnet?

Oh please. People with 4-500$k homes don't want people wandering through their neighborhood. Not every neighborhood needs to have a road running right they the middle connecting it with a glitzed up strip mall buffering the interstate.

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Oh please. People with 4-500$k homes don't want people wandering through their neighborhood. Not every neighborhood needs to have a road running right they the middle connecting it with a glitzed up strip mall buffering the interstate.

Who is going to wander through there? The daunting thugs from Oak Hills Place? Oh my, Timmy.

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Oh please. People with 4-500$k homes don't want people wandering through their neighborhood. Not every neighborhood needs to have a road running right they the middle connecting it with a glitzed up strip mall buffering the interstate.

You could create what I call a 'sterile enviroment'. This means the whole area is controlled to look like it's from the pages of a 1950's Suburbia advertisement. The road could be made in the back, the creek developed, and a plot of land turned into a park on the boulevards opposite side. 

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