I am only a few weeks away from my annual trip to visit relatives in Lubbock.
They used to live off of Boston Avenue, where we would walk to get coffee at the Plaza shopping center.
The most unique part of the ritual was having small (yes, cute) stores embedded in the neighborhood; it felt like we were in an actual community, not just a row of identical house styles.
Now, my sister lives in the 90’s streets, blocks of houses ringed with retail, vomitously lining five-lane streets.
Can Lubbock builders do something more creative with the completely blank slates that are our former cotton fields?
How about bringing back embedded shops that we can walk to?
There’s a reason people like living in certain environments. – Ben Macklin, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
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