Part I: Elk Grove Promenade construction plods along while other retail centers are empty
Construction of Elk Grove's regional mall, The Promenade, is moving along. A visit to Grantline and Hwy. 99 reveals several bui...
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Construction of Elk Grove's regional mall, The Promenade, is moving along.
A visit to Grantline and Hwy. 99 reveals several buildings rising in the former farmland in southern Elk Grove. Right now it is hard to envision how these buildings will resemble the urbane regional shopping center Elk Grove has been promised.
Interestingly, one of the main buildings is more akin to a large dairy facility you would see further south in valley. A visit to the Promenade's website doesn't help envision the 'hip' looking type of place me might have expected.
(Palm trees in Northern California? A dead give away that someone in the Midwest designed this barn.)Who knows, maybe we are just lacking the 'vision thing.' Likewise, maybe this drive-thru outdoor mall is the thing of the future and we are on the cutting edge of some new 21st century urban planning trend. With gas hovering around $4/gal., who wouldn't want to cruise though the mall in a gas-guzzling SUV!
Or maybe we were just sold a bill of goods. Only time will tell.
One thing is for certain, once The Promenade opens, it will have lasting effects on Elk Grove and it's neighborhoods.
(To be continued)
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yes, palm trees in Northern California. Theree is even a line in a rock song (Prine, maybe) that goes, "Y'up in Northern California where the palm tree meets the pine." The scene painted in the song is a honkutonk bar. In it there is my favorite lyric of all time: "She was a much older woman. You can always tell by the shoes. She liked to hang with something-something, and boys who made the news."
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