Schutze says, "Anything that happens in the Flag Room is bullshit," so approach this item with caution: Tonight at 7 in the Flag Room at City Hall is the Trinity River Corridor Community Meeting, consisting of the City Plan Commission Trinity River and Urban Design Advisory Committees. And you, if you're into bullshit. Among the items on the agenda tonight: renaming Industrial Boulevard.
What's that? You didn't know that was in the offing? Yeah, started in April 2006, actually. Guess you must not have read the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee's December 4 briefing, which offered such possibilities as ...
Avenida del Lagos
Big D Boulevard
Camino del Lagos
Camino del Rio
Dallas Delta
Dallas Drive
Founders Boulevard
Gateway Boulevard
Heart of Dallas Drive
Kirk Parkway
Levee Drive
Stanley Marcus Boulevard
Park Place
Paseo Del Rio
Post-Industrial Boulevard
The Promenade
Renaissance Boulevard
Rio Vista
River Road
River Place
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I can't believe we haven't already done a suggestion name game here; please, by all means, submit your faves, and we'll forward along to chief planner David Whitley. And, sure, snicker all you want at something like Kirk Parkway or Stanley Marcus Boulevard, but I like Rio Vista myself -- sounds very ... Glengarry Glen Ross. --Robert Wilonsky
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