Thursday, January 10, 2008

#10 - New hospital, and mall..

Ok, I know, the date says 1-10 and I'm posting on 1-11.. I will be posting another picture later on tonight for 1-11 but this picture was one that I took yesterday and never got around to posting..

The water feature you see in the foreground of the picture is part of a new shopping center that is under development. Legends Crossing is being built by Trammel Crow, the largest development company in America. The new shopping center will bring new restaurants, retail stores and hotels as well as office space. To tell you the truth, in my opinion Waco is growing way to big for it's britches and with all of the vacant buildings around town (I plan to go out one day and take pictures of them all) it doesn't make sense (IMO) to bring in more development. Right across the highway from this shopping center is a shopping center that was built a couple of years ago called Central Texas Marketplace. There are still tons of vacant spaces available in that marketplace and there is a vacant building from a restaurant that tried and didn't succeed (Smokey Bones).

The hospital is going to be Hillcrest Health System's new 471,000 sq. foot community hospital and Women & Children's facilities. This hospital will have nearly 400 beds and the company that I work for is actually set up to do a proposal for the VOIP phone systems for this facility. This could be a huge job and while I am very excited, I'm a little scared that taking on a project of that size could be extremely challenging. You can see a live video of the hospital here

-Jack

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