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    Oooh that's good news! I love Maggiano's! With regards to the new Luxury Apartments at Vintage Park built by Sueba, I'm not all that impressed. Perhaps they have some a bit grander planned for the retail that's going up in front of it, but it doesn't look all that great from Louetta. The rates do start at around $1000 for a 1BR unit (800 sq ft) and go up to around $1500 for a 2 BR w/1220 sq ft, so I'm assuming they're pretty nice on the inside. I'm not a big fan of Multi-family anything, but I do think the townhomes will be nice.
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    In northwest Harris County, CityHomes will build 115 three-story Mediterranean-style units on a 10.2-acre site. It is part of the Vintage, a heavily wooded community being developed by a joint venture of Kickerillo Cos. and Mischer Investments on former Hewlett-Packard land near Texas 249 and Louetta Road. The townhomes will feature elevations with stucco and stone and roofs with high-end materials and metal accents. Inside, granite counters and hardwood floors will be standard. Sizes are planned from 2,000 square feet to 2,900 square feet, with prices in the high $200,000s to low $400,000s. Emphasis will be placed on landscaping and trails. Driveways will be made of fashionable paving stones. The townhomes will feature outdoor living spaces for cooking and relaxing. CityHomes plans to break ground in the gated community around May after site preparations Click to read the whole article
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    Ok...you two...get a thread. Don't hijack mine. So basically, in these photos you can kind of see a) what the landscape looked life before and what it will eventually look like. I've read that they're working with the Katy Prairie conservationists to preserve/restore parts of the land that were once grassy prairies and then turned into rice farms. They want to encourage bird habitat, etc.
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    Current 'main drive' through Bridgeland Nature trails, etc. Nice variety of trees along the creek New homes springing up one of the (soon to be) many bridges of 'Bridgeland' Future areas of growth for Bridgeland...who will be the lucky homeowner with the pumpjack? A blank canvas? Grand Opening weekend Model Custom home in Bridgeland Interesting dual sidewalks? Big sky country Bridgeland
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    This is what's on the other side of the creek (in that Bridgeland photo above) over in Blackhorse. Cypress Creek makes a nice backdrop for each of these communities, including Cypress Creek Lakes across the street.
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    There are two distinct geographies in Cypress, the woods to the North of 290 and the prairie to the South of 290. I'm not sure if the prairie side was once wooded or not. I do know it used to be used for ranching and rice farming. Yes there are trees in Sugar Land...but its not really known for that, and you have to go past Sugar Land to Crab River Rd. towards Richmond. I like that area, too. My cousin used to live in Greatwood and bought a 10-acre estate close to Richmond covered in trees.
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    It's actually quite beautiful along Cypress Creek there. I believe that will all be part of the natural preserve. They're using lots and lots of lakes to add interest to the landscape. There are still scattered groves of trees, but it is mostly prairie over there. Blackhorse next door seems to have more trees, and it too is very pretty along the creek. Map of 'the Shores', one of the first communities in Bridgeland. Conceptual plan
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    The homes that are being built in Bridgland are pretty nice. Personally, I prefer more trees, but if they can make Sugar Land and Katy nice, they'll do it in Bridgeland as well.
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    Totally agree.
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    I love The Woodlands, the hardcore evangelists just tend to embellish things a bit too often. I have several clients in the area and visit it weekly. I really like what they've done with it over the past 5 years or so. I nearly bought a home out there, I may buy my next there, who knows? ...a bit of clarification, I may not agree with Trae on the exact definition of 'bland'...I'm simply pointing out that 99.2% of homes in The Woodlands are the same types of homes you'll find in the other Houston suburbs (ie. Spring, Klein, Cypress, Katy, Kingwood, etc).
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    99.2% of The Woodlands architecture is "bland" as well, the magnificent planning of the community does a good job hiding it, though.
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    Between Cy-Fair, Tomball, and Klein ISDs...there has been amazing growth.
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    Is this next to the Private Christian school on Spring-Cypress near 249 and Huffsmith Kohrville?
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    West Belt and I-10 won't be too bad. Probably 40 minutes. Roughly 40-45 for 59 (north, I presume?)
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    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/cyf...ws/4399953.html ...future focal point of Bridgeland will be its 1,000-acre Town Center on both sides of Grand Parkway. The center will feature retail, multiple-family homes, space for a college satellite, medical facilities and offices. The center's construction time frame will depend on the completion of Grand Parkway, but Houghton said it probably would begin between 2013 and 2015. This area is exploding. It already has a greater population than the greater Woodlands area, and now they're going to stick a Woodlands-sized community in, with all of the other new communities planned/underway? I hope they get to work on 290 soon.
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    Nice reasoning skills. You're obviously not figuring the compounded population that's arrived here over the past 10 or 15 years. We can easily have 600-700,000 in the greater Houston area.
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    Has anyone read this month's Texas Monthly article that goes inside the life of a SW Houston Gang banger? Eerily similar.
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    I think all of these estimates for total Houston area population are short some 250,000-350,000 as I don't think they do a good job taking into account the undocumented populations which likely range in the 700-800k persons.
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    Is this a hospital or a Vegas casino? Or an indictment of the US healthcare industry altogether?
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    I hear that there is still strong parental involvement from the Greenwood, Huntwick (sec 5 & 6) and Wimbledon Forest residents...but not much from the other neighborhoods.
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    I guess we're not winning the war.
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    The enrollment map picture of the area in the KF zone looks like an arm holding a gun to the rest of district. http://www.kleinisd.net/docs/bond.attHS.pdf
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    Ok, time to let go of the bolded out posts. When I was in HS back in 1990 or so, Klein Oak was a 5A high school, with a larger enrollment than it has today. I guess they siphoned off a lot of that enrollment for Klein Collins? Also, does Klein Independent School District have any plans to open up another HS? Lastly, I'd like to see them (KISD) rezone people on the North side of 1960, south of Cypress Creek (ie. Wimbledon Forest, parts of Huntwick) to Klein High...Greenwood should be included in this, as KF is overcrowded from what I've read.
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    "Make sexy explosion on American cheerleader."
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    Good stuff. Borat at Katy High School - Learning American Football
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