Sometimes, interesting things pop up in unexpected places.  This walk started out about as expected,with a tour of underutilized shopping areas and overgrown parking lots.  It was tempting at this point to look at these empty parcels, thing about the inexorable increase in density and imagine some nice apartments.  But the parcels are awkward, surrounded by the back end of the Eastland shopping center, New Circle Road and the light industry nearby.  Obviously, cities need industry, and industry is often functional and little else, though sometimes the functional can be elegant and thus beautiful in a different sense.

Diaz Alley meets this criteria, I think.  It is just that—an alley, for the light industrial buildings on Commercial Dr and Industry Rd.

Good: thriving light industry
Bad: underutilized areas by New Circle Road will probably remain that way for some time