Riverwalk Village: Revised Site Plan

The folks behind Riverwalk Village have filed a revised site plan with the city and it looks like they have reduced about 50% of the retail and office.  It reduces the height in some places.  I'll weigh in on some of the other changes at another time but in all, I think they reduce the overall quality of the project.  If you're going to build a mixed-use center.  Do it right.  PERIOD.  It goes before Design Review Board tomorrow night (Tuesday June 2) for it's initial review.

GDOT has also killed the early offramp from 400N which would allow traffic to this development to avoid Holcomb Bridge Road. That's completely, utterly ridiculous.  But, this is GDOT we're dealing with.  The body that is proposing an exit at McGinnis Ferry before they fix the HBR interchange.  Topic for another time...

Here's the new site plan.  

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Comments

[Blake]

This is really disappointing

[Andrew]

I am disappointed by this and want to know the reasoning behind it. I also feel primarily leery of the lack of any kind of provision to make development happen in a mixed use fashion, which is evidently the case with the Avalon development. Another sizing comparison that helped me envision the retail component is the Forum in Norcross. It is 420k total with 330k retail. So the retail component would be about 80% of the size of retail at the Forum.

[Andrew]

Does anyone have a gauge for how much this development could lead to a re-invigoration of the publix shopping center? I know the development isn't a part of that but folks will have to drive through it to get to RV. Could be nice to get some better options there.