Check out this new rendering of the Trinity Triangle development that we discovered on ColeJenest & Stone website. ColeJenest & Stone are providing civil engineering and landscape architecture services for the project.
They also recently sent us an interesting, aerial view of the project [see below] via Twitter and said…
Construction progressing at Decatur’s Trinity Triangle & should be completed by end of year
The aerial view is at least a month old – you can still make out the red and white stripes in front of the fire station.
Yeah, the city needs to get a new street-painting contractor. They obviously used the wrong kind of paint on this project. That lasted for what? A month? That was kind of an important paint job so….let’s get it together folks!
“That’s funny, the damage doesn’t look as bad from out here.”
This rendering was a lot more intriguing when I read the restaurant’s name as “Swinger Café”…
That is intriguing!
Those are some pretty choice looking party patio balconies on the top floor facing city hall.
Can someone tell me where the photographer would be standing if this was a real photo? Trackside?
Kind of across Trinity from Twain’s, in the yard of the seniors building.
What happened to Café Montpeillier from the old renderings? Springer Café is hit or miss.
Can’t see the Dairy Queen sign, yo.
My first thought, too.
On my daily commute by the construction site you can see the old Dairy Queen sign; it seems to have lost one side and the rest is not be handled with care. 🙁
I am shocked that some DHS ers have to removed the DQ sign and reinstalled on top of the school. It’s just hanging out there at the construction site getting mangled.
This right here is why I worry about our future. Lazy ass kids these days. Ugh.
Yay apartments! I want to live in one!
Jer-ry! Jer-ry!
All I can say is…Where the F is Dairy Queen?
There are some retail spots on the site plan, but no drive through lane. Pretty sure the Dairy Queen stuff was a ruse. There will be restaurants, but they sure aren’t thinking about a DQ taking one of the spots. Also, appears to be a tiny median blocking the turn movement from wbound College to Trinity to East Howard. Not exactly an optimum turn movement for traffic engineers, but a very popular movement nonetheless. Anybody aware if this little median will be going in as well?
Here’s last summer’s statement from the city re: the project: “The long-awaited Trinity Triangle project is slated to break ground in mid-July and yes, they did work out an agreement with Dairy Queen to return them to the project.” Not saying that etches it in stone but they could have just as easily said it didn’t work out. I don’t see any upside in dragging out a ruse. Whether the DQ ends up being there or not won’t have any meaningful impact on the project’s ability to rent out.
The adjustments to the intersection at Howard is something the city/DOT are doing as part of an overhaul. The straight line north from the tracks heading down Candler into the Od Decatur neighborhood is going away. All traffic will now flow onto Howard through the updated Howard/Trinity intersection shown on the site plan.
The last plan i saw kept the short piece of N Candler that goes across the little triangle.
Hmmm. Weird. Go to the link above for the planning firm and check the second image. They’ve clearly overlaid (DOT?) engineering schematics and, looking from the tracks up, the spur’s definitely not shown and there’s a little island that splits left turns from Trinity south onto Howard east and right turns from Trinity north onto Howard east.
The plan you’ve seen may of course be more recent. I know there’s been much tweaking to ensure it’s compatible with the TT project. Was it recently?
The plan I saw was at an “open House” at City Hall about 6 months ago. Check with Amanda Thompson to see what the latest is.
Boy I hope they don’t close that. Trinity is already backed-up…it even backs up onto College. I use that cut-thru to get to the preschool all the time.
That’s a lot of foot traffic and balcony parties so early in the morning.
[Note the very southernly sunrise behind the DQ.]
Doesn’t the city have enough empty stores? Why do we need more stores?