Personally I think that it is th wrong demographic for the Cactus Club. Other than Government employees, there isn't enough business traffic in the area to drive a solid lunch crowd (Walmat employees won't be eating their) and the residential areas nearby are low to mid market which will impact dinner sales.
I don't know about that. I've read lots of case studies and surveys about where people eat/drink compared to where they live/work. It's not tied together nearly as closely as you'd think. For some reason, developers and business owners don't seem to look at traffic counts here as much as they do in other places. When I worked in Arizona for a real estate company, it seemed that's all they analyzed to find building sites. Think about Red Robin, that you could say is a junior version of Cactus. It seems like a bit of an odd spot, but it has visibility and pretty easy access. I know when I worked for a company where our shift was all out in a fleet of company cars all over Greater Vic, it was a good central meeting point, and we ate there probably once a month all together.
Having said all that, I'm not a huge Uptown fan, I don't think it's the huge magnet that some make it to be.