Saginaw: "the city on the right track"
This semester I enrolled in a ceramic class at TCC Northeast Campus so driving to the perimeter of Fort Worth allows me the visual pleasure of scale, divergent civic programs, heavy industrial and residential to co-exist. I don't know how the many daily activities manage to live within this vast playing field unlike the light industrial, mix-use residential of Greenpoint in Brooklyn. There has always been a practical and logical idea of locating massive industrial structures outside the city limits i.e. noise, traffic and pollution.
I like to drive through a planned community of identical houses with the gigantic grain storage structures anchored on my horizon. I want to drive my car right into it as close to the beast as I possibly can till its shear size further draws me into its many separate parts. All the parts are big. These grain facilities are the largest in the world owned by Cargill, Inc; they operate 24 hours, seven days a week. Saginaw is the last stop on the southern route to Fort Worth so these railroads are very busy. The eighteen wheeler trucks are in constant flow through the major arterial streets onto highway 820. The intense movement of transportation on McLeroy Boulevard leaves no room for the domestic regards of a residential neighborhood. I believe the absence of the big box retail chains make the residential versus heavy industrial scale appear to be out of a Batman movie set. But I like it alot.
I have not understood Saginaw's claim to be "the city on the right track" or which group of interested people find it to be on the right track--could they be the developers?
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