Historical February 1992 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
On December 17, the Delmar Commercial Revitalization Committee met to celebrate the season and its considerable progress in drafting a redevelopment plan for the thoroughfare. Members shared a delicious meal at the Thai Cafe, 6170 Delmar, and also received a sneak preview look at the soon-to-open Wabash Triangle Cafe across the streetBoth cafes are harbingers of the type of development the committee envisions for Delmar between the city limits and DeBaliviere.
The Committee hopes that its plan can be introduced at the SDCC Board and subsequently at the Board of Aldermen this spring.
The plan is likely to include the following components; 1. Design standards, including standards for landscaping 2.
A revision of the streetscape, perhaps including a small median and a narrowing of the present 7 lanes of traffic 3. Prohibiting certain uses. Based on surveys of business owners and area residents undertaken by Washington University graduate student Debra Smith, prohibition of the following uses in any new development is being considered: package liquor store, pawn shop, junk store, service station, a facility selling food that does not have table service. Such prohibitions would not apply to existing businesses unless they are sold and not reopened with their present usage within six months. 4. Potential developers will be able to seek redevelopment rights for certain parcels through the LCRA. 5. Tax and other incentives will be available to those who wish to improve their present property as well as to those who wish to develop vacant parcels. Committee members who include JoAnn Vatcha, chair, and Sam Green, Dennis Townsend, Loretta Lloyd, Lana Stein, George Johannes, Jack Wright, John Reeve, and Cynthia Homan, are consulting with Aldermen Clay and McGuire about the language to be included in the proposed ordinance.
They also are planning a public meeting to discuss the plan before it is taken up by the Board of Aldermen.
In order to begin improvements to Delmar in the near future, the Committee has endorsed two grant applications submitted by the SDCC to the city’s Theme District Neighborhood Commercial Improvement Project and to Southwestern Bell.
If these proposals were to be approved, funds would be allocated to begin certain streetscape improvements such as tree planting.
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Committee members dine at Thai Cafe. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1992.
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