Farmer's Co-Op becoming a mixed-use development.

How close is this to the homeless camp they were planning to build?

There are also preliminary plans for a 7-story, 600 unit apartment building behind fricking EZ Mart at Razorback Rd and MLK. Moar parking woes for Baum.

Not as significant, the old Keytronics lot is going to be another student housing development, called Aspen Heights or some such shite.

Baum will need a parking garage before 2022.

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That area of town is going to be the next Dickson Street, with this, and the new stuff across the street to the north.

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Wtf no it won't. It's basically a warehouse at the moment. And I remember what the the co-op used to be too. You're overreacting

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It’s a shame how crappy all those areas will become in 5-10 years.

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It depends on the style and location of apartments. As student housing gets overbuilt, and downtown becomes even more expensive, I'd expect at least one or two of the bigger "student apartment" buildings downtown to go condo, or at least seek market rate, regular renters rather than students.

The stuff in the Mill District will house some students, but won't be targeted at them specifically. It will be a more urban, closer to downtown version of Uptown.

While there is certainly a need for lower cost housing, that area is not going to be it. As stated the arts corridor, lots of new apartments nearby occupied by out of state see students that where much higher rent is the norm so the higher end stuff is not so expensive to them. Said students want to have coffee, booze, food etc close by, so these businesses spring up nearby. Raising the costs for the area and making it an "in" place to live near the arts area. Etc. The positive feedback has begun. Just like you can have a negative feedback for an area, you can have a positive feedback as well.

When I got to Fayetteville, Dickson was a shithole. Run down buildings, overgrown lots, giant whole in the ground along the road. Roger's Rec and Jose's about the only real businesses. Was pretty scary place. Then arts center came in, and with support from the city, everything changed for the better. I really didn't think it would happen at the time, but was completely wrong. Something similar seems to be happening again for many parts of town.

Yeah I know the stuff in the works and have even looked at moving to the apartments. But saying its going to be another Dickson area then later saying "of 1998" are two different things.

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Said students want to have coffee, booze, food etc close by, so these businesses spring up nearby. Raising the costs for the area and making it an "in" place to live near the arts

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This is a very strategic location, not only via its proximity to downtown and the new Windgate Arts District and Cultural Arts Corridor, it sits at the intersection of two major trail lines--Tsa La Gi and Frisco. All of the new student stuff south of MLK sits adjacent to Tsa La Gi (literally every bit of it from Hill Place to the new stuff being built around Baum). It's a short, flat, safe bike ride away from where these new bars and restaurants are being built.

That area will definitely be like Dickson in a way in a few years, in that people will drive (or bike) there, park and walk around to different bars and restaurants.

I think it's probably going to be closer to The Square as far as density of things to do.

Still, it's a fair comparison. It is a mix of new buildings and older buildings being re-used for entertainment venues and restaurants. Young folk don't recall that many of the buildings around Dickson St were old laundries, bakeries, or other semi-industrial use, well into the late 1990s.

Pretty cool to see actual stuff finally happening around that mill condo building after all these years. It's been there for what, 20 years? Now, the neighborhood is finally catching up.

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Well I guess you just have your own way of speaking. You might as well say it's the next Beale Street and start panicking about the rents and traffic congestion.


Oh I meant Beale street in 1945

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Likewise, you have an interesting method of interpreting information, if you believed the OP was stating that you'd wake up in 6 months and find an entirely new, complete version of Dickson Street sitting at the corner of MLK and School Ave.

I could be wrong, but I interpreted the loss of small town feel to the loss of the Farmer's Co-Op specifically. Like a place your grandpaw used to take you as a kid is being turned into another higher-intensity use.

Same deal as if they built condos on Marvin's IGA (which is becoming ONF), or a slick town center where the drive-in theatre is located.