Picture this:
It’s Saturday afternoon on a beautiful, crisp fall day. You’re at the Mosaic District, standing across the street from that lovely little Strawberry Lane park — where Angelica movie theater is. You could take in a movie, buy some high-end apparel, eat in any of 20 different restaurants, get some organic groceries — you name it. There’s a beautiful glass-fronted piece of modern architecture in front of you. And a little park, where people are just hanging out and enjoying the day — families with young kids, maybe a group tossing a frisbee, a skateboarder or two, the obligatory hipsters, some older couples out getting dinner, maybe some people eating take-out in the sunshine or sipping a smoothie.
And as you stand across the street from that, you take all of that in and say, yeah, that’s nice. That’s exactly the vibe I want to see in Vienna.
And translating that vibe to Maple Avenue is simple.
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Run 33,000 vehicles a day down the street in front of you. Then pretend that doesn’t change anything.