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Right now, you’re probably wondering to yourself: Hey, how’s Mayor Tom enjoying his
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trade mission to Spain and France? Well, from the looks of Chris Heinbaugh’s photos and video, he’s having a nice time — especially yesterday, when the mayor and council member Ron Natinsky and the rest o’ the gang stopped by the City of Arts and Sciences, a Santiago Calatrava-designed project with which Allen Vaught does not take issue.
On the other side’s a lot of video — mostly sight-seeing stuff, and, man, that is one impressive development. (There’s also a clip I like just because the mayor, at a “memorandum of understanding with Valencia” signing ceremony with Valencia’s Mayor Rita Barberá at The Most Beautiful City Hall Ever, appears to be starring in an excerpt from a foreign-language short film.) You’ll also find a clip in which Heinbaugh asks the mayor for his thoughts after seeing the City of Arts and Sciences. Leppert’s brief answer suggests we need to be thinking really long-term when it comes to the Trinity River Corridor Project:
“Well, we’re here in Valencia, and we’ve got a terrific development — and not just the spectacular buildings, but it’s really in a river bed. I think there are great lessons for us in the Trinity. One of those lessons is this has been at work about 40 or 50 years now, but clearly with work, perseverance, you’ve seen the work they’ve done here, and you see potentially what we could have in Dallas, and it does bring a lot of excitement.”
Jump. It’s like looking at someone else’s vacay home movies. But better!
