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  1. sidegate
    Driving North on Kirby and seeing the curve of the building where the pedestrian area starts reminds me of the Virgin Megastore in my native Belfast. this is the biggest pic I could find...
  2. sidegate
    Let's not look West Ave in the mouth. I don't think anyone can seriously say this type of development is a bad thing for the area when one considers the alternative (peering at a thin strip of shop signs across a sea of cars). Give the tenants a chance. This is a market driven economy, and Houston is not spoiled for choice when it comes to eateries. If you don't like a restaurant, don't go. If enough people (white, black, latino, whatever) don't like it, it will close down and something will take its place. Chuy's has stood the test of time, which in Houston is really saying something. unfortunately it doesn't own the land it sits on, so I guess its days are numbered. And yes the fajitas are awesome.
  3. sidegate
    why is white people's taste in food any less valid than anyone else's?
  4. sidegate
    I agree. Chuy's rawks!! Disappointed to hear that, but hardly surprised. Chuy's is the one place that my family remembers in Houston when they talk about their visits here.
  5. sidegate
    I can't wait for this to open. Already that stretch of Kirby has a radically different "feel" to it with the inviting pedestrian mall and the highrise opposite. My enthusiasm is tempered somewhat though by the implications for traffic in the area. I wonder if cops will be on hand a la Highland Village to help keep things running smoothly at busy times.
  6. sidegate
    I agree that the single lanes south and, to a lesser extent, north on to 59 are the weak links in this intersection at peak times. Only going to get worse now that we're one of fastest growing areas in the nation.
  7. sidegate
    This interchange wouldn't be as bad if people showed a little patience got in lane early, didn't do dumb things like come to a stand still in a lane of traffic, and accepted the fact that if they couldn't get in lane safely, just took a detour and resolved next time to get in lane earlier. I'll put the crack pipe down now.
  8. sidegate
    Wilson Elementary on Yupon is a one of three HISD Montessori programs. They are opening a Montessori middle school program this fall. I know they have a preschool program but not sure what the fees are. http://es.houstonisd.org/WilsonES/
  9. sidegate
    He does have some curious priorities, does Mr White. How much demand among low income groups is there for wireless access? I think some of this money be better spent on improving and adding to the number of COH libraries.
  10. sidegate
    I immigrated to Houston from abroad about 12 years ago and have lived within a couple of miles of the Medical Center the whole time. For the first six months I didn't own even own a car and attracted more than a couple of concerned stares as I struggled up Kirby with my big Target carrier bags, wondering why the sidewalks kept disappearing. Perhaps if I were born and raised here I'd have had more reason to familiarize myself with places beyond the Loop but the amenities inside it being what they are, I haven't. It's not a knock on U of H or Bellaire or anywhere else. I have a sphere of existence whose current dimensions suit me. Everyone does.
  11. sidegate
    Pretty much. It's a function also of how often I have occasion to go to these places, which for UH is the annual March of Dimes walk, and that part of Bellaire to eat breakfast at Cafe Miami (not so much these days as I used to). Multiply time spent by fuel by general aggravation involved and "Way out there" is a lot closer in than it used to be for me. And it's not my phrase anyway. I just understand where it's coming from.
  12. sidegate
    eastern edge of 77098
  13. sidegate
    not really. pretty much has to do with what my fuel gauge says before I start the engine, and when I get back. all the more so these days. Edit: typo
  14. sidegate
    "Way out there" - I'm guessing you're an inner Inner Looper Jax. :-) Rightly or wrongly, I'd say the same thing!! I went to the COB website to try and find where their city boundaries and zip codes are. An interesting academic question is the attitudes that prevail in the respective (COH & COB) city halls towards developments of this kind vs say a West Avenue type of approach. Even if a developer wanted to build a West Avenue-type complex in that part of Bellaire, would that be looked on askance by the COB planning commission? Edit: Of course this is irrelevant if it still is City of houston....
  15. sidegate
    Outside the Loop, west of Chimney Rock...
  16. sidegate
    Chronicle article here. Interesting to contrast this suburban-style development with the move towards denser, more pedestrian oriented retail developments inside the Loop.
  17. sidegate
    Possibly but it's been vacant for years. Charlie's is on the bend on Westheimer just west of Waugh, opposite the Hollywood Video store.
  18. sidegate
    Dunno what this portends but I drove past Charlie's Diner today round 11.30 and there was some temporary steel fencing going up round the front parking lot of the type that is generally put up before a demo.
  19. sidegate
    There's a parallel thread here
  20. sidegate
    Yeah that Fiesta's a great little shop. Their beer and wine selection is pretty extensive for the size of the shop. Not that that's everything mind you....
  21. sidegate
    It is a sketchy part of Richmond all right. As development progresses one would hope it won't turn into another Greenway Plaza - all big setbacks, landscaping, parking garages and glass facades, discouraging pedestrian traffic. The area is currently walkable, with some retail, bars and restaurants, just not very attractive - the sidewalks in general are in a terrible state. Here' s hoping the light rail, when they get round to it, spurs a renewed approach. The pace of development along the Main St line hardly makes one particularly sanguine though!
  22. sidegate
    depends on the 'hood. for my own it's height, front setback and garage door setback. after that all bets are off.....
  23. sidegate
    It's the balconies at the front that get me. What do these people think they're going to be looking at?? Balconies were fine when you had 500 acres round your house all to yourself but they're kinda silly when you're either looking at the guys doing the yard opposite, or exchanging resentful glares with your more modestly domiciled neighbors. A porch would make a lot more sense, but perhaps not with that ugly six foot railing round it. I'd run a mile from any house that the builders felt they had to fence off from the neighborhood to sell it.
  24. sidegate
    Be a PITA getting your bags of topsoil up in the elevator!!
  25. sidegate
    Don't these 'hoods have deed restrictions specifying garage setbacks? It's pretty easy to stop this kind of stuff if they exist and are kept up to date. keeps the tract developers out. sevfiv that house is beautiful, just beautiful.
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