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By Robert Wilonsky in News You Can Actually Use, Actually

Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 3:41PM

If nothing else, this City Hall-provided video concerning the Bexar Street redevelopment project in South Dallas is the first city-made video you can dance to -- though it's hardly Nina Simone's "Feeling Good," as advertised. (Anyone? Because Shazam's no help here.) I, for one, hope this is the wave of the future: animated conceptual renderings set to funk-soul soundtracks. Alas, to what tune should they set the Trinity River video? Ah, yes.

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Merritt says:

I could get so much more done in a day if I had this song playing as my personal soundtrack. Robert, please solve the mystery. Please.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 4:06PM

Lakewooder says:

Good beat, easy to dance to. I give it a 7. Actually, it sounds like a 70's era porn soundtrack... not that I would know or anything... I'm just sayin'.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 4:42PM

scott says:

How is this any different than a generic apartment complex only with zero setbacks? It looks like we're gonna stare at big parking lots and only remove the landscape buffer and call it walkable.

Jeez, it has a flat roof to boot. That looks like a bad plan from the Gitty.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 9:31PM

ww says:

Sounds like somebody got a hold of some looping software.. Sony Acid Music perhaps??

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 9:45PM

cp says:

scott-

No big parking lots. Supposed to look like Worthington Street in Uptown.

Now for some serious critiquing... WTF were those big ass trees supposed to be??? And, and, what happened to the end of Bexar Street, where the Buckeye Trail goes into the Great Trinity Forest? I didn't see that in the flyover that kept circling around a mysterious highway (was it supposed to be 175??)

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 18 2009 @ 11:08PM

Roadside says:

Now there is a street you could rename for Chavez.

Posted On: Thursday, Mar. 19 2009 @ 10:48PM

Anonymous says:

Oh and they forgot to put in the stop signs and/or traffic signals.

I wonder how much "equity" the developers payed for "community relations"?

Posted On: Thursday, Mar. 19 2009 @ 10:56PM