SMU To Demolish Shopping Center

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:59 am

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... efd02.html

abezontar · Post by **abezontar** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:06 am

I like the bit at the end about SMU reimbursing the Park Cities for the loss of tax revenue. I guess that will be the price we have to pay to get the zoning changed.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:09 am

They had better give La Madeline a spot in the middle of campus or something...I am going to miss that restaurant.

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:03 pm

I still miss Pancho's all you can eat Mexican Buffet. You didn't want to light a match in any SMU dorm on a Sunday night.

StallionsModelT · Post by **StallionsModelT** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:30 pm

Man that kinda sucks. I still stop by the bookstore and the sandwich shop from time to time. But its nice to see our university grow at the same time. The transformation of the SMU campus in the last five years is truly astonishing. When I started at SMU as a freshman in 2002, we didn't have the Crum Center, Junkins, Blanton Building, Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports, the new MBA Building. SMU has truly made a quantum leap in both the aesthetic and intellectual reputation of the school. Oh yeah, and we have a Presidential Library coming to campus? What a great time to be a student!

FWMustangGirl · Post by **FWMustangGirl** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:52 pm

So where will the bookstore go? Hillcrest?

NavyCrimson · Post by **NavyCrimson** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:56 pm

Perhaps they'll break or get out of the deal with Barnes & Noble, too. BN sure has been a dissapointment. I wish they'd model it after Stanford's; I believe Follet is the owner? Mustang 72 would know. They have a much better assortment of merchandise.

couch 'em · Post by **couch 'em** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:50 am

First off, how much tax revenue do the park cities make off SMU students, parents, and faculty? They shouldn't need reimbursement. Second, if that land isn't going to be used for Library, why would demolishing it be part of the deal? The article makes it sound as though the Library people are requiring it.

72mustang · Post by **72mustang** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:16 am

Your right Follet is the operator. But they did close the bookstore in Palo Alto

NavyCrimson · Post by **NavyCrimson** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:42 am

...But they did close the bookstore in Palo Alto

Noticed that this past summer during their baseball school. But their bookstore on campus is still GREAT!!! It just appears Follet has a good sense of how a "business" should be merchandised, etc.

By the way, we're going to be there this Sat. for a Giants game & we may drop by again. I think we're taking the Coast Hwy down this time.

SMU Football Blog · Post by **SMU Football Blog** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:26 am

They need to put that stuff someplace. My guess is the Mrs. Baird's plant

smu diamond m · Post by **smu diamond m** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:40 pm

couch 'em wrote:First off, how much tax revenue do the park cities make off SMU students, parents, and faculty? They shouldn't need reimbursement. Second, if that land isn't going to be used for Library, why would demolishing it be part of the deal? The article makes it sound as though the Library people are requiring it.

I highly doubt this area will be used for the actual library, but probably for a welcome center type thingy, or possibly an additional garage. The parking for this monstrosity, coupled with our already hampered university parking situation, is going to be hell.

The bookstore is moving to Hillcrest where Varsity books and ZuZu's (more like shih-tzu's, food was terrible) used to be.

NavyCrimson · Post by **NavyCrimson** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:50 pm

That would be great if it was baseball.

couch 'em · Post by **couch 'em** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:12 pm

smu diamond m wrote:
couch 'em wrote:First off, how much tax revenue do the park cities make off SMU students, parents, and faculty? They shouldn't need reimbursement. Second, if that land isn't going to be used for Library, why would demolishing it be part of the deal? The article makes it sound as though the Library people are requiring it.
I highly doubt this area will be used for the actual library, but probably for a welcome center type thingy, or possibly an additional garage. The parking for this monstrosity, coupled with our already hampered university parking situation, is going to be hell.

The bookstore is moving to Hillcrest where Varsity books and ZuZu's (more like shih-tzu's, food was terrible) used to be.

That would be an awesome place to a giant parking garage - a stone's throw away from Ford and not too far from Moody. Also would probably P.O. the UP locals.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:14 pm

couch 'em wrote:
smu diamond m wrote:
couch 'em wrote:First off, how much tax revenue do the park cities make off SMU students, parents, and faculty? They shouldn't need reimbursement. Second, if that land isn't going to be used for Library, why would demolishing it be part of the deal? The article makes it sound as though the Library people are requiring it.
I highly doubt this area will be used for the actual library, but probably for a welcome center type thingy, or possibly an additional garage. The parking for this monstrosity, coupled with our already hampered university parking situation, is going to be hell.

The bookstore is moving to Hillcrest where Varsity books and ZuZu's (more like shih-tzu's, food was terrible) used to be.
That would be an awesome place to a giant parking garage - a stone's throw away from Ford and not too far from Moody. Also would probably P.O. the UP locals.

If we put up a parking garage in that area, can we please have the first floor be retail/restaurants (see: Baylor's garage that has a Chili's and Starbucks)? We could put parking both above and below that.

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