Crocker Park is at once a beautiful, useful, and forward-thinking shopping, entertainment, and living complex, and also a major source of congestion, stress, traffic, noise, and an emblem of everything that is wrong with suburban sprawl.
You don’t even have to necessarily believe one or the other. You can think both views are right and both views are wrong. We like to think these things from a distance.
Regardless, Crocker Park has already left a massive thumbprint on Westlake’s western edge, and that thumbprint is about to grow in a big way if Crocker Park’s developers get their way.
This article appears in Jul 20-26, 2011.
