re: Why does Juban Crossing look so different from its initial plan?

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Martini

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Well that's a start but I was actually talking about the whole parish in general. If LP and AP would dedicate a road tax, bond the money they both truly could benefit tremendously and relatively quickly which benefits the whole metropolitan area EBRP included.

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LP already has a dedicated road tax. I'm guessing you have no clue how much actual repair and resurfacing work has actually gone on in the Parish over the last 20 years, do you?

I'm also guessing you either don't live here or haven't lived here for very long.

Design often never turns out how preliminary pie in the sky designs are done. This thing called a budget gets in the way when real dollars are allocated along with mess ups, additional fees, ideas that come along during construction and investor pull out and financial crisis.

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I would say let them finish all phases

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IF this actually happens.

Is that the Garage???

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Probably, but I'm a fricking liar so I can't say for sure

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Look's like a metal building slab.

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Bucking the system and going with no plumbing eh?

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Nah, I'm going old school and shitting in the woods.

junkfunky's doesn't urinate or defecate.

His meditation rituals take care of that

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I'm just glad i'll have more options.. With I sware 20 Mexican joints and big mikes... something needs to change

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Burgersmith is coming to Juban too.

I think it'll all be nice once everything is finished but like previous posters said this is just Phase 1 right now.

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but it looks nothing like the blueprint.

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That "blueprint" on their site is not a blueprint. It's probably their original planning submittal to whatever jurisdiction for approval. They probably just haven't updated their site with new information.

These things go through a lot of changes. First a developer hires a design firm to conceptually plan it all out. You have input from tenants, the developer, the designer, the local government, and a handful of other people.

You then submit that plan to a local jurisdiction for concpetual approval. This is usually is for zoning purposes. Most of these types of developments get zones PUDs, SPUDS, TNDs, whatever. The definition of all these are loose and chnage from county to parish to state.

Once zoning is approved by local officials, you go back to the drawing board to get the plan tightened up. By this time a tenant or two has pulled out or another couple have been added. If the tenant is someone like Target or Lowes, this can drastically alter the plans.

Rinse and repeat a half dozen times, add in a recession or two, a 9/11 or SARS outbreak, and a changing local demographic, and your original plan is altered dramatically.