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  1. 15 hours ago, Texasota said:

    Eh, maybe we'll get lucky and developers will stop building on greenfields and focus on the all the vacant land we still have in the city. 

     

     

    Well Dunham Pointe is already slated for development just west of Fry Rd on that open patch of land in between Cypress Creek and 290. The residential will between Mueschke & Mason with accompanying commercial outside the perimeter. I wonder how Archie Dunham feels about this new rail line going right through his land that he planned on putting nice upper middle class homes on.

  2. On 12/18/2017 at 10:03 AM, ADCS said:

     

    The train will be on elevated viaduct all the way out to Hockley, judging by the renderings.

    Okay well I suppose that could suffice, but if I'm not mistake another poster just stated the renderings show the viaduct returns to ground level shortly after Fry Rd.

  3. What about all of the north/south thoroughfaes across 290 in Cypress west of Fry rd like Mueschke, Mason, Bauer, etc that have yet to be built? If the train goes at grade at that point, then it'll be a lot more cost prohibitive to get those done. What about that new neighborhood that was supposed to be going in south of 290 across from Fairfield between Mueschke@290 & Mason&290?

  4. 17 hours ago, AREJAY said:

     

    I'll take a mattress firm, a nail salon, a cheap donut and kolache place, a second mattress firm, and a starbucks, adjacent to a public storage and a poorly maintained convenience store with taco trucks out front. Home sweet home.

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  5. Next to an old home depot and a strip center containing a dominos and a 99 cent store? This is the height of luxury! Actually on second thought given what's adjacent to it, how much are the lots going to be worth? It might be a great value for being so close to town.

  6. Jealous Houston haters all up in this thread smh

     

    In other forums, a lot of the vitriol I've seen for ROD personally has come from Dallas boosters. I suppose they feel that upscale shopping in Texas is Dallas' thing and they're not too keen on Houston getting some exclusive stores that they're not. ROD could be the best shopping center ever designed in the world, (it's not), and they would still say it pales in comparison to Highland Park Village, (or HPV for short :lol: ).

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  7. Yawn well you can always use your own money to build there. I'm sure your market sense exceeds those building at the correct location.

     

    Yea people seem to miss that a lot of companies prefer large, isolated, suburban style office campuses to ones in bustling urban areas. I kinda agree that there should be more forced concentration of density in this city, but that's not the Houston way and seemingly has never been, at least for the most part. Either way, the market gets what the market wants, and apparently the market wants more suburban campus style offices in the energy corridor.

  8. I think that is the way to think of it - in 30 years it won't be advertised as "minutes away from downtown" it will be advertised "in Houston's trendy North Uptown neighborhood"

     

    Can you imagine the traffic at the 610/290/I-10 interchange if Uptown builds out with highrises fully like it's already on its way to do, Westcreek builds out, and this area takes off with dense development? :unsure:

  9. I guess this area has promise to be a nice area way way down the line, but I doubt that's going to come to full fruitition in our lifetimes. Overtime if the rail center was connected to light rail and prices rose, a lot of those warehouses and run down apartments would relocate to cheaper facilities or cash in on their greatly appreciated land value. This new development would tie in better to Uptown and the two gentrifying neighborhoods west and east that are rapidly filling in with townhomes and stucco mcmansion rebuilds.

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