tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11041947.post3086262561019738946..comments2023-09-11T04:21:27.755-04:00Comments on Under the Water Tower: The Independence disaster (continued)John McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631351621970818562noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11041947.post-62834075605434061692008-02-22T18:34:00.000-05:002008-02-22T18:34:00.000-05:00Hi. Sorry to leave an off-topic comment, but there...Hi. Sorry to leave an off-topic comment, but there's no contact information on this site for the owner.<BR/><BR/>I'm working on behalf of J-Lab (http://j-lab.org, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland, a project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation) and the Center for Citizen Media at Harvard University. I'm helping to expand a database of sites from the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11041947.post-4536354030553358842008-02-15T15:31:00.000-05:002008-02-15T15:31:00.000-05:00I'm ambivalent about Independence. While I remembe...I'm ambivalent about Independence. While I remember the section of it nearer to downtown being a vital retail corridor two decades ago, the surrounding neighborhoods (particularly those closest to the Plaza and Pecan interchanges) were terrible. <BR/><BR/>Now, those same neighborhoods have blossomed because cutting off Independence also meant cutting off the riff-raff. But, unfortunately, it cut Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com