{"id":2716,"date":"2010-05-09T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/venice-in-the-shopping-mall.html"},"modified":"2010-05-09T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T17:09:31","slug":"venice-in-the-shopping-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/venice-in-the-shopping-mall.html","title":{"rendered":"Venice in the Shopping Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got boring retention ponds? Use a little imagination!<br \/>\nSan Antonio has its Riverwalk, Austin has its creeks and Town Lake,<br \/>\nand San Marcos, Texas, has Venetian-style canals in a shopping mall<br \/>\nparking lot:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/cespurgeon\/SanMarcosTexasParkingLotCanal#\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_vBxtVCLo0uY\/S-bTNoRN91I\/AAAAAAAAEd8\/7YxfG0GjsaU\/s512\/IMG_0056.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWith fountains and bridges:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/cespurgeon\/SanMarcosTexasParkingLotCanal#5469290999623478674\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_vBxtVCLo0uY\/S-bTL8XMbZI\/AAAAAAAAEd8\/qDonYAHhV7c\/s640\/IMG_0047.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd bell tower and gondolas, with J. Crew:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/cespurgeon\/SanMarcosTexasParkingLotCanal#5469291122318650546\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_vBxtVCLo0uY\/S-bTTFcALLI\/AAAAAAAAEd8\/LPMc0r6rsV0\/s640\/IMG_0076.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThese pictures were taken Charles Spurgeon, San Marcos, Texas, 4 Dec 2005.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve found others up through about 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt looks like in early 2009 the gondolas got converted into<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photos.igougo.com\/pictures-photos-p490863-Remote_Boat_Marina.html\"><br \/>\nthe Remote Boat Marina:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photos.igougo.com\/pictures-photos-p490863-Remote_Boat_Marina.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.igougo.com\/images\/p490863-San_Marcos-Remote_Boat_Marina.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe remote boats even have<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/San-Marcos-TX\/The-Remote-Boat-Marina\/71256557760\">a facebook fan page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the mall still advertises<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.primeoutlets.com\/locations\/san-marcos\/visitor-services.aspx\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Gondola Picturesque Fountain Area and bridges available for event and photo background rental&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nContact: Guest Services<br \/>\n<br \/>\n(512) 396-2200 or 1-800-628-9465<br \/>\n<br \/>\n3939 IH-35 South<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSan Marcos, TX 78666\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWith a little imagination, something<br \/>\ncan be done with retention ponds to make them attractive and maybe<br \/>\neven a revenue generator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got boring retention ponds? Use a little imagination! San Antonio has its Riverwalk, Austin has its creeks and Town Lake, and San Marcos, Texas, has Venetian-style canals in a shopping mall parking lot: With fountains and bridges:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,11,21,780],"tags":[5780,5779,5781,5777,1533,5782,5778,237],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-lake","category-planning","category-travel","tag-boat","tag-gondola","tag-marina","tag-p1me-outlet-mall","tag-parking-lot","tag-retention-pond","tag-san-marcos","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}