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  1. Vaughan
    They broke ground on the new brownstones a few weeks ago. Whereas the sign outside the complex used to list them from the $800s, it now lists them from the $600s. I still can't imagine buying a place with a view of the post office parking lot for that kind of money, but I suppose that price is competitive with single-family homes of comparable square footage in the area. The idea that City Centre is far out is ludicrous. It's 15 miles from downtown, which in Houston terms is not that great a distance. It's still well within the city limits. At 9 a.m., it takes me 20 minutes or less to drive from Kimberley at the Beltway to downtown. And it's not even like the area was the middle of nowhere up until only recent times. Many of the surrounding neighborhoods were built in the late '50s. Maybe for people who moved here from much denser Northeastern cities, anything outside the Loop seems like BFE, but having lived most of my life in Houston, hearing that part of town described as far out sounds strange. As for the convenience of being able to shop, make appointments, eat out, etc. in the area, I'll take the convenience of the Memorial and I-10 corridors over more crowded, urbanized areas inside the Loop or anywhere else.
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    You don't get out much, it seems.
  3. Vaughan
    I bet the time it takes to do the research is longer than it takes to drive the whole 15 minutes from downtown to City Centre.
  4. Vaughan
    Too far out? It's a 15-minute drive from downtown.
  5. Vaughan
    You mean the recently completed building with AT&T in it? I don't think that's part of City Centre. It's a redevelopment of part of the existing Town & Country strip malls. City Centre is only to the north of Queensbury.
  6. Vaughan
    The Katy Freeway construction is ahead of schedule and is supposed to be substantially completed by fall 2008, including the intersection of I-10 at the Beltway. Much of City Centre probably will not open until mid-2009 at the earliest. The addition of another lane to the northbound side of the Beltway leading up to the Kimberly/Memorial exit should help as well. Nonetheless, once all the road and City Centre construction is done, it will probably be similar to driving in the Galleria area: congested at lunchtime, on weekends and during the holiday shopping season, relatively easier to navigate the rest of the time. Does anybody know what the plans are for the large plots of land on the northwest and southwest quandrants of the intersection of I-10 at the Beltway? The Katy Freeway plans suggest this land will remain vacant, but it seems like rather valuable real estate. They're in the process of refurbishing the inside of the post office, which previously looked something like a prison. In any event, the part of the post office across the street from the back of the brownstones is a loading dock, so there's not much they can do to the outside to make it look better.
  7. Vaughan
    A sign out front says the renovated hotel will open in late March.
  8. Vaughan
    You forgot to mention the lovely view of the loading dock at the post office across the street. At least it's convenient if you have something to mail.
  9. Vaughan
    Since Whole Foods and Central Market aren't likely, what are some other upscale grocery possibilities for City Centre?
  10. Vaughan
    Being at the mercy of public transportation or circling the block forever trying to find a place to park your car, paying through the nose for small living spaces, lugging your groceries and anything else you buy several blocks to where you live, shopping in small, crowded stores, foregoing a backyard. Of course, anyone pining for that experience is free to live in any number of places that feature these charms rather than trying to turn Houston into one.
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