It was a view I was starting to enjoy more and more.
Driving to work along Stockdale Highway and glancing over at the Park at Riverwalk.
The peaceful looking ponds (when people aren't swimming in them), the walking/bike paths, picnic areas and the ampitheatre.
Well, the ampitheatre before the start of construction on the new Target. Thank goodness the powers that be decided to scratch plans for the upscale shops and put in a Target or some other big box retailer.
The view of the ampitheatre is now blocked as you drive past the main entrance headed east on Stockdale.
You get a brief glimpse of it before BJ's, then the other Castle and Cooke dome building obscures the ampitheatre, until you pass Changs.
You can look back and see the backside of the structure, until of course they finish putting in the other businesses on the eastside of the complex.
I understand that this was the plan (or the revision of the original plan) for the area, but I grew fond of the ampitheatre and the grassy knoll as a selling point to draw people into the park.
Soon the view will be gone, unless you pull into the parking lot.
Brighthouse might want to rethink the sponsorship, since their sign will soon be obscured by progress.
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I was just complaining about that today. It's ugly. It's dumb. You want to feel far away from the Targets of the world and the diapers in their parking lots when you take a walk by a river where roadrunners and beaver live. Reminds me of how in the South there's a problem with urban takeover of old farmland where there are cemeteries. Instead of moving the cemeteries, entire strip malls are built around them...
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