Oh north central Austin is now a jumpin’ cool happenin’ place. Small businesses thriving. Funky restaurants. I live way south and I am a south-Austin-vibe kinda person, but I am quite worried about how north central will fare, and whether the mom-and-pop stores are going to get run out through spiraling property taxes and weird requirements about parking etc.
Northcross was definitely an older mall, an “outdoor” kind that doesn’t even have the appeal of those entirely enclosed climate-controlled malls so favored by mall-walkers. I don’t really get Northcross mall’s appeal now but in its heyday it probably was something novel, undeniably large, and perhaps useful.
