The Corpus Christi Caller Times wishes we had f*cked up our waterfront

What did you say?

Looking at the acres of undeveloped land surrounding the Shoreline Boulevard site for the new park, Jamie Torres Springer a partner with HR&A Advisors, marveled at the openness of the land. "You don't see waterfront land that is that deep and long that can be dedicated for public space," he said. "Most waterfronts are blocked by billions of dollars of infrastructure that has to be redone."

In other words, our bayfront is clean of any major private investment such as waterside hotels, or major shopping centers, or even nitty-gritty stuff like docks or warehouses. Yes we've done a real good job of keeping our bayfront free of anything that looks like it might make money. It's not as if we haven't tried.

The downtown bayfront is where development ideas go to die. There was the entertainment zone on the marina proposed by Landry's. There was the proposal to convert the now-gone Memorial Coliseum into a shopping center. There was the initiative by the Omni people to create an entertainment area. Remember the "land mass?"

Just WTF, WTF WTF!!