kylejack

I know what gouging feels like from shopping at the Midtown Randall's and even the Montrose Kroger. Of course people have to pay more for groceries in Montrose or Midtown compared to Conroe. Land costs more. But HEB has good prices in comparison to the other grocery stores in the area, so apparently the improvements they made did not cost them so much that they had to jack up the prices above the market rate. HEB could have built the store however they wanted because property owners are king in Texas. They chose to leave some good trees, to have an excellent bike rack with a full set of tools, and to choose a design that the community liked. These things earn them customers, and therefore profits. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

As any other business, they are constrained by supply and demand. I find the prices quite reasonable. The store is popular and stays very busy, so perhaps they are making it up on volume.

I sure hope you're right, JJxvi, because any new development should have a functional sidewalk along all public streets.

Odd as there is one just nine blocks away by Toyota Center.

I don't own a car and rarely take a bus that uses the highways. Sure, I rely on goods brought in by highway, but so too do citizens depend on employees to be brought by mass transit to work at restaurants, grocery stores, and etc. that we all shop at. Highways and mass transit are both an integral part of a well-functioning city.

I pay taxes and so do you. So when you tell me to "pay up" for infrastructure, you and I already do.

I wasn't asking you for permission. It's already happening and will continue to happen.

Yes. Time to have an alternative to the highways wholly funded and subsidized by taxpayers.

Yes, they are working on it in response to increased density. The new option to reduce parking requirements by 10% by installing bike parking are very cool, and I'd like to see more of it. I'm talking about reducing parking requirements, not reducing parking options. Parking options can crop up as the market demand is there for them. It reduces barrier to entry to the market and makes more current properties able to open different kinds of businesses.

I don't subscribe to their NIMBYism. Increased density will necessarily result in city permitting that doesn't require that we pave all our buildings to put up parking lots. More walkable retail, etc.

Because it will push Houston more towards the types of transit I like. Au contraire, Houston doesn't let me down now.

..so? If another 40K move inside the Loop and make it more dense, I am glad. I want the urban core to get denser. If you allege a lot more people will move to the suburbs, then that will drive prices in the suburbs up.

I'm quite sure he was responding to samagon's question about where to go for more information.

How do you know if you haven't done this? Did you ask the Mayor and what did you get back?

Ehh, semi-vacant. It had a few tenants before the construction began.

Other than the expensive Midtown Randall's and the niche Phoenicia, Studemont Kroger is my closest grocery store. I'll go if I'm nearby, but otherwise I like the HEB Montrose.

That Kroger is awful and I think the product lineup was selected by some number cruncher in Cincinnati. Seems like they only considered demographics for immediate area rather than things like, for example, that the Kroger on 20th Street is dry. The Studemont Kroger should have good beer selection, but doesn't.

That's the old press release from February. New article, but not new information.

The rent is not high downtown, and it is not dumpy. We're not replacing restaurants with bars, we're replacing nothing with bars and restaurants. Not seeing the comparison?

We have a name for the tequila bar now, and the Trigger Happy bar is a brand new announcement, so yet another bar in the area. Wow.

I don't think anything is implied in that data about which direction people are moving. All the data says is that a lot of people are moving to Houston from other places.

So he wastes his precious half hour at places like Cavender's Boot City, because we all must be cowboys, or something. Also, Tookie's is less than great, so apparently he can waste precious minutes. As to Guy Fieri, he went to Red Lion. Lame.

No, nor is it ethical to punish all pedestrians for the actions of certain pedestrians.

You want to talk about laws and I want to talk about ethics, so I don't see how we're going to make any progress.

I don't actually care about the legal case to be made for assault, but I do consider any unwanted touching to be an assault, regardless of the legal definition. No, my problem is with people thinking they have the right to reclaim public space.