It could be that TWS will be gone as a race track soon. Developers want to put in 1500 homes and if everything is approved they want to start construction in 2015-2016. My brother just read the whole article to me. Very sad.
JJ
It could be that TWS will be gone as a race track soon. Developers want to put in 1500 homes and if everything is approved they want to start construction in 2015-2016. My brother just read the whole article to me. Very sad.
JJ
link:
http://wtaw.com/2014/03/13/plans-to-...ned-community/
Lots of hoops for the developers to jump through, it's not over yet.
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Very true but it will happen sooner or later.Originally Posted by kbrewmr2
The first time I went to TWS was in 1972 or 1973 for the Texas Twin 250 (250 miles of NASCAR then 250 miles of Indy cars back to back) and it was way out in the boonies.
JJ
I would say the outcome can't be good for TWS. I bet there is a lot more money in those homes than in a racetrack.
Sucks to lose an awesome track just for some more houses that could go somewhere else.
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I thought it was an EPA Brownfield site and would take an ungodly amount of money to cleanup?
Maybe the new will be worn off of COTA by then and it can fill in for the TWS dates.
If that somehow happened it would be great for me. I'm not holding my breath.
JJ
city is excited about this...however, the developer is working a position to limit his losses. They are proposing this so that the developer is guaranteed reimbursement from the city for infrastructure improvements REGARDLESS if it is finished out. build out is proposed over 15 years. Phase 1 would be to bulldoze the site and put in streets, water, sewer. At that point the developer could walk away with their money in hand and the city has all the necessary work done to expand into that area. Win for both....bad for tax payers and racers.
While I don't want to see this happen, it will some day. Time to pool our resources of racers in the state and build a new track. Call it TWS 2.0 with fresh surface and clean facilities. Same layout, same corners....just new and fresh.
<---considering setting up fund for donations to start this up! I'd love to own me a racetrack.
Ah, fugg it.
Save TWS petition.
http://soonerbillz.com/SaveTWS/
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