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If you're curious about what is going on with the former Gander Mountain location (290 near FM 1960)...it was slated to become an entertainment complex, however it is now being built out as a Tesla Service Center for sales, delivery, and service of Tesla vehicles. https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Projects/TABS2022000829

The new Main Event on 249 (near Regal theaters, formerly Silverado) is nearing completion. Given the considerable growth, the area has been lacking in amusement options. This should be a good addition to the area.

What neighborhoods will be zoned to this new school? Gleannloch? Windrose? Have they released the proposed zoning for this High School?

Thanks for the link. Look at the demographic report for Cypress (population, income, etc). Some of the best demographics in the Greater Houston area: Cypress Demographics Population: 142,640 Household Income: Median $107,053 | Average $130,119 Compare to The Woodlands Population: 107,769 Household Income: Median $105,151 or Sugar Land Population: 82,830 Household Income: Median $102,270 | Average $124,443 (Source: ESRI)

Nothing real exciting, but I'm sure they'll do well.

Here are the renderings for Cypress Crossing

Caldwell companies announces a new 15-acre, upscale town center-style development akin to CityCentre and Market Street for the Cypress area at FM 1960 and Hwy 290. The development will include a central park area, hotel and conference center, retail, restaurants, Class A offices, etc. More details here: http://impactnews.com/houston-metro/cy-fair/cypress-crossing-development-to-serve-as-new-mixed-use-cente/

A welcome addition!

Here's a more detailed article with renderings: http://www.chron.com/business/real-estate/article/Noble-Energy-planning-tower-4222382.php#photo-4084888

Noble energy is relocating it's HQ to the former HP campus and will build a new 20-story office building at the intersection of 249 & Louetta. When completed, the Noble Energy campus will comprise of nearly 1 million square feet of office space. "To prepare for additional employee growth through 2025, Noble plans to build a 20-story tower across from the existing buildings that will be connected with a sky bridge. The new building is expected to be complete by 2015, at which time about 1,600 employees are expected to be working at the facilities, Robison said." Link: http://impactnews.com/articles/northwest-houston-poised-for-future-economic-growth/

Among the High Schools in NW Harris County... Cy-Fair ISD had 4 Tier One Rankings: Cy-Woods HS Jersey Village HS Cy-Fair HS Cy-Creek HS (*Cy-Ranch not yet rated) Klein ISD had 1 Tier One Ranking: Klein HS Source: http://www.scribd.co...ANKINGS-ALL-PDF

Remember J. Christophers, good stuff. It is a lot like Kineally's pizza. I think they still have a location in Kingwood. I also remember many a little league (Spring/Klein) baseball party at the pizza place over in the Kroger shopping center at the corner of Kuykendahl and Louetta. The name escapes me, but the pizza was good...was it Royal Pizza? We lived in Ponderosa in the 80's , I remember the BMX track over on the other side of the bridge along Kuykendahl. We always used to ride bikes and hike down there by the creek. A guy I went to school with made the papers after finding a Kimodo Dragon down by Cypress Creek. It was evidently released by a pet owner.

http://www.hcnonline.com/content/articles/2010/10/01/tomball_magnolia_potpourri/news/100610_po_as_tmhs_update1.jpg A recent aerial photograph shows continuing construction of Tomball Memorial High School in the southern portion of Tomball Independent School District at 19100 Northpointe Ridge Ln. http://www.hcnonline.com/content/articles/2010/10/01/tomball_magnolia_potpourri/news/100610_po_as_tmhs_update4.jpg Construction is well underway at Tomball Memorial High School, Tomball Independent School District's second high school, which is set to open to students in August 2011. Read Article Tomball Memorial HS

My son is in the Horizons (GT) program at Hamilton. He loves it. Great school.

Exxon is apparently going to be moving to an area in Spring (Klein ISD), South of Spring Creek, west of I-45 near the Hardy Tollroad Intersection where they own a 1,400 acre tract. They already have legislative approval to create an Improvement District there where they have plans to develop 20 Office Buildings (3 million sq. ft), wellness center, labs as well as a town center, retail and housing. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6841225.html Another link from the Business Journal My linkhttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/othercities/houston/stories/2010/01/18/story2.html?b=1263790800^2732161

9 Klein schools achieving this designation listed here: Benfer El Benignus El Brill El Ehrhardt El Hassler El Klein HS Kuehnle El Theiss El Wunderlich Int

Seems like Option 2 was better. It looked like 3 out of 4 options gave more enrollment relief to crowded Wunderlich, rezoning the neighborhoods between Cypress Creek and FM 1960 to Kleb. Disappointed to see their "preferred" option had the one plan that didn't grant any relief.

I doubt it would be a Title 1 School. What are the neighborhoods that will be zoned to it? Are there a lot of apartments? That other Middle School outside Windrose doesn't have stellar numbers either. Will this new school relieve that?

A friend of mine lives right across the street from this house. I'll ask him about it.

Some of you guys are total Debby Downers. Do you guys have kids?

Zip lines, ropes courses. Sounds good to me. There are a ton of families with young kids looking for things to do. I welcome more entertainment options.

The NW Harris county suburbs fared well in the latest Houston Chronicle school rankings with 7 area high schools placing Tier 1 on the rankings. Klein Cy-Fair Cy-Creek Tomball Langham Creek Klein Collins Cy-Falls (Cy-Woods and Cy-Ranch too new to rank)

Morons. I wish I was getting a kickback or at least some sort of freebie. I'd be a pretty good paid spokesman. Unfortunately, not though. That's just the link I found with the coupon code that gives you the unpublished 11.3 cent rate. I'll try not to share helpful info on this board in the future. Hate to upset the assclowns.

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I grew up in Greenwood Forest and Ponderosa Forest (graduated HS in 1991). People used to move into these neighborhoods for the great schools, beautiful homes, low crime, big trees, greenery and overall nice quality of life. These neighborhoods (and Olde Oaks, Northgate, etc.) still look great and still have many of the original owners. There are quite a few millionaires living in those $150,000 homes that never appreciated. Unfortunately, due to the way these school zones are drawn, they have large geographic areas on the Southside of FM 1960. Originally, development in the area consisted of nice single-family custom homes in the aforementioned charming, wooded neighborhoods along FM 1960. In those days, there really weren't that many apartments. The entire area on both sides of FM 1960 was white, middle and upper middle class. Over the years however, with the lure of cheap, available land and great schools, low-income housing began to sprout up on the South side of FM 1960 while nicer developments continued to grow on the North side of FM 1960. This along with the fact that Spring ISD made a decision in the late 80's to annex a portion of land from Aldine ISD in order to get what they thought at the time was valuable (taxable) commercial property along I-45. The trade off was an overnight change in demographics that snowballed, creating lots of problems in Spring ISD which resulted in decreased demand for this area by the middle and upper middle class families that had dominated it for decades. Same story for Klein Forest, except it's downfall was the fact that Klein ISD has a weird shape due to the fact that they gerrymandered in more 'diverse' neighborhoods stretching towards Houston, back in the 1970's in order to obtain more federal dollars. So instead of moving into these school zones, the white Middle / Upper Middle class demographic opted for newer communities nearby, north of FM 1960 - which has been one of the biggest growth areas in the nation for the past 20 years. Some areas along FM 1960 have faired better than others, and it is directly attributed to the schools and their drawing zones. Klein, Klein Oak, Cy-Fair and Cy-Creek draw mainly from areas of north of FM 1960 (which is nearly built out from FM 1960 going North all the way past Spring-Cypress and from I-45 all the way West to 529) and have remained more desirable along with the new high schools created to absorb the new growth (Klein Collins, Cy-Woods, Cy-Ranch). Hope that helps.