{"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":"Got boring retention ponds? Use a little imagination!\nSan Antonio has its Riverwalk, Austin has its creeks and Town Lake,\nand San Marcos, Texas, has Venetian-style canals in a shopping mall\nparking lot:\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nWith fountains and bridges:\n\n\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nAnd bell tower and gondolas, with J. Crew:\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nThese pictures were taken Charles Spurgeon, San Marcos, Texas, 4 Dec 2005.\nI’ve found others up through about 2007.\n

\nIt looks like in early 2009 the gondolas got converted into\n\nthe Remote Boat Marina:<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nThe remote boats even have\na facebook fan page<\/a>.\n

\nAnd the mall still advertises\n\n“Gondola Picturesque Fountain Area and bridges available for event and photo background rental”<\/a>.\n

\nContact: Guest Services\n
\n(512) 396-2200 or 1-800-628-9465\n
\n3939 IH-35 South\n
\nSan Marcos, TX 78666\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWith a little imagination, something\ncan be done with retention ponds to make them attractive and maybe\neven a revenue generator.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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:","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-HO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_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}]}}