Urban Infill: Urbana

[ErikSetzer]

I'm interested to see how the final product turns out.  It'll be better than nothing.

As for condos with shopping under it, go two blocks north on 3rd St. and you have that.  I think it's called "The Pier"?  (Nice "Coffee Bistro" in it... good breakfast sandwiches and decent coffee.)  They're still trying to fill it with buyers.  You think more condos are going to find buyers?  No, it'll just dilute the market.  So you do what you can with your budget.

Also, I could be wrong, but I think that's what you have on 1st St. and 3rd Ave., too.  Condos, parking, and shops all around the bottom (or restaurant/bar in the case of Chicago Pizza).  So, again, the area's already got plenty of that.

I'm just glad to see something going on.  I'm hoping there will be some work to clean up some of the businesses along 3rd St. that just look absolutely awful, with cracked parking lots, weeds growing all over, that kind of stuff.  There's a lot of good going on, it'll probably just take some time.