Outside The Fountains

We've seen what inside The Fountains looked like. Now let us take a look of what lies beyond its iron gates.

The Fountains is on Chicago Avenue.

Right across the street from The Fountains is The Dominion, an up-scale apartment complex. And doesn't it look nice and fancy?

Maybe after our 6-month lease is up, we'll be able to up-grade to The Dominion. The apartments there are much larger than those at The Fountains. And the apartments also have their own garages.

However, with those extras there is also a much larger price tag. For the space that we would we looking for, we would have to pay nearly twice the rent as that of The Fountains.

Just outside The Dominion is this HUGE Texas-size telephone pole. Things really are bigger in Texas! LOL

One of the things that becomes immediately obvious when you come to Lubbock is all the construction that is going on everywhere.

There are 6 sides to The Fountains, and 3 of those 6 sides have some sort of construction going on.

This is looking out from the front gate up Chicago Drive.

We have no idea what's being built there, but whatever it is, it's going to take up a lot of space.

Looking out from Chicago Drive.

More construction on Chicago Drive.

Heavy earth-moving equipment on Chicago Drive.

The Fountains is on the corner of 50th Street and Chicago Avenue. This section of 50th Street is torn up for a street widening project.

50th Street was a 4-lane road ~ which is rather small in Lubbock. It's being widened, I think, to accommodate 6 lanes.

This view is from the same corner of 50th and Chicago, but looking up in the opposite direction.

Looking across the intersection of 50th and Chicago.

Heavy equipment on 50th Street.

I am hoping that this steam roller is a sign that this road construction project would soon be wrapping up. But I am afraid that the end is still nowhere near in sight and that once this side of the road is finished that the other side will be blocked off and torn up.

Compared to other construction projects around Lubbock, especially the highway construction projects, the ones around The Fountains are rather small.

But one the one thing that I noticed that was different between the construction projects in Texas and the ones in Massachusetts is that it seems as though the ones in Texas are moving at a much greater pace than those in Massachusetts.