The history of the shopping center at the northeast corner of Ed Bluestein Boulevard and FM 969 -- also known as 183 and East MLK Jr. Boulevard -- ends before it begins. Known at various points of its non-development as East Pointe, Palm Square, and Journey Plaza, the effort to build a strip mall in this location began in the mid-1980s and never advanced beyond the completion of some brick walls and a roof. The story of the project and its highly visible failure is unwritten in the city's historical record . . .
