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  1. drove by here yesterday... looks like the rest of the new centers going up... starbucks is up (wonder if it will stay open).
  2. if you were plunking down $150k on a car, you probably wouldn't notice the homeless person...
  3. i'd like to read about the other improvements, if you don't mind...
  4. it's like everywhere else in houston... how much money you spend will determine how much better the schools will be (or will be perceived to be). most of the schools in the greater houston area (or texas, if you like) are below average (nationally). You will never find a consistently "good school" in a poor neighborhood. It's a sad fact of life. Even "good schools" in the suburbs don't stay that way. Eventually, the price for homes will drop for whatever reason (over building, foreclosure, economy, martians, strip clubs, whatever...) and people with less income will move in, and the people with more income will leave (kinda like "white flight" - which, imo, is more about money than race) further perpetuating the decrease in home values and overall community income and voila - "bad" schools. when i lived in spring branch in the 80s, i lived in the apartment ghetto hood... the schools i was supposed to go to were bad. we moved to the suburbs, i went to a good school. fast forward to now, and the spring branch schools are good again, and the school in the suburbs is 'bad'. follow the income if schools is really what you're looking for. otherwise, know that most schools in the greater houston area about the same. move wherever you want to LIVE and then sign your kid up for some type of educational program like Kumon. They'll get a better 'education'. You won't have to chase schools every five years, thus paying for the price for the educational program (by not increasing your mortgage) and then some, and perhaps your child will end up at the top of the class - which generally means they are going to be a success as the move on, regardless of how good their school was. If you find a place, ask VicMan about schools.... ;-)
  5. when i looked at it a couple of years ago, i recall seeing quite a bit of Jewish influence in the neighborhood (from what I could read online.) I just don't know the area well. It seemed to be like where I live now. Nice in the houses, but not so much in the apartments surrounding the houses. i am a realtor (inactive) so i did go in and look at it a few years ago. i don't think it's been touched since then, and it need a lot of work when i was in it. again, if i were single, i would make a super low offer on it and try to fix it up right. i need a really good deal on a mod. not necessarily MCM (the pink and aqua just don't work for me...) but a modern structure that i can remuddle without angering the traditionalists too much.
  6. www.har.com/5776233 OK, so I am not a modernist, I just like neat stuff. (I just used neat... wow.) So, take a look at this place and let me know if you'd consider it "mod" or some other name. Some houses, I know would be considered mod. Some, like this one, I'm not so sure. I'm guessing that, by some strict definition, it's not. However, by the "Metropolitan Home" definition, it probably is. I go more by the Met Home definition of mod, and tend to like all the places that would fall into that more general bucket. I've actually gone to look at this place (years ago). Other than the neighborhood, it looked like the house could be made into something nice with the right people working on it. If I were single, I'd take it on. Thoughts on the house and the SW Fondren Northfield subdivision/area? Thanks, TK http://harpictures.marketlinx.com/MediaDisplay/94/hr2016894-1.jpg http://harpictures.marketlinx.com/MediaDisplay/94/hr2016894-2.jpg http://harpictures.marketlinx.com/MediaDisplay/94/hr2016894-4.jpg
  7. I'm trying to think of what "upgrade" this hasn't happened to.
  8. should be ready just in time for the construction of what could become the worst traffic in the U.S., and certainly in TX. maybe someone will finally buy the former putt-putt / go-kart spot, too... :-P
  9. Keep in mind, if you're frequent to HAIF, there probably isn't much "hidden" anywhere in this city. To most of Houston, Westbury is hidden as far as potential and what's going on there in terms of real estate. I bet most of Houston has no clue where Westbury is.
  10. i actually think theaters as we know them are going to start to go away. they only make money on the concessions. i can put up a 40" - 86" screen at home, not hear 20 kids talking, and 3 cell phones ringing, and have a beer and a steak for the cost of a coke and popcorn and movie. the current movie theater model is terrible. we may have theaters, but not like they are today. i hardly even go to the theater any more. if i REALLY want to SEE and HEAR the movie, I go to the theater on Weslyan - high price + pay to park = fewer kids just hanging out and talking through the movie (i understand, i was a bad ass kid, too. but i don't have to like it now that i'm old.) if my wife just wants to go to the movies, we hit Willowbrook or the Marq*E on i-10 and prepare to deal with racket. it would be nice to have nice stuff nearby, in the city or in the near burbs... not necessarily "new" (ie, far out burbs) just nice stuff.
  11. Wal-Mart goes where population growth and families are (ie, people who need to bargain shop). Most of Wal-mart is new building, which happens to be where more middle class families are (ie, burbs). However, you know by going into Wal-mart, that is not necessarily who they cater to. Wal-Mart doesn't go into the city much at all. When WM went to Meyer Park, that was still considered suburban. I'm waiting for WM to build more in/near the city, but don't expect that they will, unless they get a killer deal on the land (because that's how WM operates.)
  12. i'm guessing the apartments on pitner are still there. i used to live there. saw my first shooting at the basketball court at hollibrook elementary. that strip between hollister and clay was more hood 30 years ago than some of the areas in SW Houston are now...
  13. define "change" define "demographics" good luck with all of that. look at the city. all of the "demographics" are going to "change". It's an endless pursuit.
  14. wow.... i gotta get into the office more often (long commute from houston). this is right by the old IBM offices (of which, i believe, the 2nd phase will encompass, as IBM has sold most of the space to the Domain.) This is not "far" from downtown Austin by any stretch, and it's very near all of the 'money'. this area will probably become austin's galleria area. Hmmm, maybe I should move back to Austin, I suspect there will be some housing bubble type action going on there before there is in Houston. Might as well play along...
  15. i went to lanier for 6th and 7th grade (vanguard) in the early 80s. i remember a girl getting run over one day by a guy who lost control of his car in the bus driveway. i was on the bus, he drove up the driveway, ran over a girl and his car got lodged between the bus i was on and the building - with the little girl still under the car. and i remember Mr. Baugh, in his smug, holier-than-thou way, telling me he hated football and football players because the only purpose of football was for the players to hurt each other... chillout, man, i was 12 years old... get back in your volvo... purple izods and purple polos were a big deal...
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