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Don't know what happened to other Neartown post but here is another try-- spur 527 curves up to Bagby as Eastside boundary. But it does look like it goes further north via Genesee then further via Taft. I've always wondered at the non colored portions of this map-- perhaps signifying no assigned Civic organization? Midtown has no "Civic Club" assignments within its boarders-- do the "regular" ie house, apartment,townhome neighborhoods feel the loss of no civic club representation? something to ponder I guess.

It is a bit confusing. Here is map of Neartown and one of Avondale boundaries. Neartown Neighborhood Map.pdf superneighborhood 24 map.docx

Another opportunity to protect trees in the right of way- Ask the candidates hard questions

Information concerning trees and the renovations planned for Montrose Blvd by Montrose TIRZ

The mention of mesh side screens intrigued me- I googled it - The picture I found alluded to a $10k price tag! The first thing that came to mind was the disastrous mega dollar "branding" designs Montrose Manage District put up all over Montrose and how that ended up- geez

This is the type of dialog that has my brain Brume parting, clearing the way for me to and wonder if there is a midway type of kazillionaire that would get a bang out of an urban project that hit bases of archeology and ecology-- a quirky sort of kazillionaire who landed somewhere between donating a huge public library like Carnegie and making a huge rocket ship like Musk. yup some sort of philanthropic someone who would shake up what was suppose to awe us; thinking outside of what was expected and introducing us to urban projects that combine history, archeology. Redefining green spaces forward that would provide hints of engineering ( like installing French drain 5o collect runoff- or a prototype smaller wind turban for lighting area), urban kindness ( everyone enjoys shade) and architecture ( the whole shabang looks great)---- but kazillionaire urban innovators that would inspire young Minds in a quirky way, seem to be in short supply.

Wow, I missed that from their presentation- I thought they were only using those big gadgets to stack cars.

Listening to Mighty Equity developer, I was lead to believe the trees would be razed. New greenery would replace.

I guess I must agree with Tennesse Williams characters : I find myself depending " On the kindness of strangers" but with a twist.......developers. particularly The future Developer and ( hopefully)future kindness towards the median at Westheimer/Elgin/Bagby- which falls outside of both Midtown, and Montrose TIRZ- so seems improvements must come from private entities. I don't know any kazillioaires, so I'm hopeful of a " green leaning" developer. so whoever .....whatever Developer purchases these lots at Rosalie and Bagby- As you begin the tear down- please consider trans planting, the shrubs from ROW and the huge plot of Cannas that flank the front doors of Ardith's...... transplant across the street at that patch of grass median? Surely that will generate positive PR. Positive PR surely would be of help to any developer.

I might be crazy in this super hot weather suggesting transplanting trees but........... There are small trees alongside Stanford that could be give new life at median at Westheimer and Bagby. This would be a great neighborly gesture Might Equities could do for the neighborhood.

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I talked with a few people after the meeting about the art project. I am not the only person who is cautious about the makeup of the HAA team...............all of them will bring forth their knowledge of what Montrose was- by reading about it- reading what someone else's viewpoint and impression was.................

At the meeting tonight, the first segment of Montrose Blvd improvements were discussed- everything should be posted online- one of the Skanksa developers attended, identified the property at Montrose and Westheimer and stated his support of this project.

Don't know if this belongs here but: here's a small piece of Avondale walking tour............I haven't seen an historic picture of this house.

this old boarding house has many large trees, back front and sides---not great trees according to COH; yes there is one that is dead....but nice shade canopy from the remaining trees. . Since this corner is destined to be a parking lot anyway.....it might be the neighborly thing to allow those to stay for shade. Lordy but it's not likely summers in Houston will be any cooler.

we were walking by Today huge Aston Martin display:

We were walking by....... guess this is perhaps a prelude to the library Story time after library is completed?

I might have mentioned this before, 8-10 years agoAvondale Civic jumped through hoops with COH to adopt this median and also Bagby/Elgin/Westheimer.....somehow MMD charmed COH transfer stewardship from Avondale to them. So not much luv from Avondale now..... sameolesameole, nothing happened. then MMD got spanked by legislature.........very low profile from them after that. I am surprised the "renewed" MMD is active, more so that public art is coming from them=> those more ole super $$$$ Montrose signs that aligned lighting with the bridge lights over 59.......? What a disaster.

This is COH installed art?

One of the heads of Development for Sanksa has agreed on a short talk ( won't go in to a lot of details, he said till Discovery Green Project is Finished )at the upcoming Neartown meeting on August 22, 7pm at The Womens Home. 607 Westheimer.

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Have a great green xeriscape Metro shade to enjoy that Starbucks would enhance the experience .