It does feel weird, to me, to have a giant surface parking lot stuck between the two downtowns, feels like the location should be more "built up" than that. (I say that, yet we recently returned from a vacation in downtown Houston... and there are large surface lots in downtown Houston. So, well.)
I am hoping the Sears building and lot will be developed soon. they could build a whole neighborhood in that space. It was all about the parking back then, I don't remember when Frandor opened but I have seen some ads which tout the huge number of Free Parking spaces that were available. Man, that nickel or dime folks had to pay to park downtown must have really bugged them, still does, I guess. My Dad often went to great lengths to avoid paying to park downtown. The lots may have been full at times, but later they built a small amusement park over a large part of the parking area, the parking area was always over built so they filled it later with all the outbuildings there now. Still the huge [ugly] Sears lot stands a reminder of much busier days for our Frandor.
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