DrLan34 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Does anyone have any information about this variance request?If not, we should know by January 31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Good eye. All I see is Dolce Living Rosenberg apartments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I also found Dolce Living Mansfeild and Dolce living Burelson while googling. But found nothing about midtown.Hope Dolce Living Midtown is not just some garden style apartments like these other Docle's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Where is that located ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatesdisastr Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Where is that located ?The new Post Phase III is in the background so this looks like it is the plot of land bound by O'Neil, Wilson, and Webster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Small plot of land for garden apartments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chi-Char-Hou-Dal Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Kind of turned around is this large tract on grey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPHous Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'm about 100% sure this is the vacant lot next to Junction Bar on W Gray, bound by Wilson, VIctor, and Bailey. What does "To request reduced building lines along the street" mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 I saw Cherry prepping to move some of the shotgun houses, I heard they will be moved down the same street, at least 3 of them, west towards Dallas on some other lots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatesdisastr Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'm about 100% sure this is the vacant lot next to Junction Bar on W Gray, bound by Wilson, VIctor, and Bailey. What does "To request reduced building lines along the street" mean?I don't see how this could be the location you are saying it is. Looking at Post Phase III from your location I don't understand how downtown would be in the same picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPHous Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I don't see how this could be the location you are saying it is. Looking at Post Phase III from your location I don't understand how downtown would be in the same picture.Why? Looking east (I think?) on Gray you can see downtown as far as river oaks. You can see the red brick school looking building which is, on the map, behind junction bar. The sign at the "unknown bar" is Junction bars. Unless I'm have a major brain fart I have the correct location. I suppose we could get DrLan to chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 It is the two blocks North of Gray between Gillette and Wilson St Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 I saw Cherry prepping to move some of the shotgun houses, I heard they will be moved down the same street, at least 3 of them, west towards Dallas on some other lots.I meant North towards W Dallas St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chi-Char-Hou-Dal Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Hmmm curious to hear some thoughts on this? Two blocks of standard apts- moving the shot gun houses a block north. With the new Apts next to Fed /Camden/Post squeezing out Freedmanstown town from all sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyM Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Very interesting. Any idea as to whether or not these will be "normal" apartments or more section 8 like the blue colored apartments just to the north? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 What does "To request reduced building lines along the street" mean?It appears the developer wants to locate the buildings closer to the front lot line than what the current ordinace permits. Perhaps he intends to build something like the type of apartments seen in east coast cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia where the front stoop is immediately adjacent to the sidewalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdueenginerd Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 My wish list for this site is a 6 story+ building apartment/condo with street retail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPHous Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Lots of potential in this lot as well as the lot across from CVHS just down the street. Anything resembling the post apartments is a win. Got my fingers crossed that this isn't screwed up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 why don't they just destroy those row houses. if someone wants to fix them up fine, but as they are now, they are run down shanties, good for fire wood only. I'm not even sure folks in Bombay would live in them. It would be great if they put something like Post on this land, but I'm not holding out hope. I suspect they will look like Hanover on Gray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyM Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 why don't they just destroy those row houses. if someone wants to fix them up fine, but as they are now, they are run down shanties, good for fire wood only. I'm not even sure folks in Bombay would live in them.It would be great if they put something like Post on this land, but I'm not holding out hope. I suspect they will look like Hanover on Gray.Agreed. They've got a few nearer the Baptist church that are being "preserved" for now, and that's adequate. Keeping these shotgun houses does nothing to lend history to the neighborhood, it's just holding it back.4th Ward Redevelopment Authority needs to get their act together . . . I really wonder where most of that money is actually ending up. Street improvements have been a line item in the budget for at least the last two years and nothing but a couple surveys have happened yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I see a sign all of the time on one of them that says, 'Help Save This House'. Might as well put that on an old bananna peel. 'Help Save This Banana!'It's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 Word is that this will be a mixed use development with ROB. Retail on bottom, 2-3 parking floors, and 4-5 multifamily apartments on top. Supposedly similar to Post Midtown.We will see what actually materializes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Since 4rth ward redevelopment was brought up can someone please explain to me what's up with all those cheap looking newer constructed homes in 4rth ward that look like they should be in the suburbs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I believe those are low income housing. I suspect the owners will sell once their taxes get too high, and they will be demolished and town homes will go up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPHous Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 @DrLan that is fantastic news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyM Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Word is that this will be a mixed use development with ROB. Retail on bottom, 2-3 parking floors, and 4-5 multifamily apartments on top. Supposedly similar to Post Midtown.We will see what actually materializes.Excellent news! If this comes to fruition, everything from Bagby to Taft will be pretty much built out except for the body shop/Baptist church plot. Gray seems to becoming the Main St. of Midtown.Since 4rth ward redevelopment was brought up can someone please explain to me what's up with all those cheap looking newer constructed homes in 4rth ward that look like they should be in the suburbs ?I believe those are low income housing. I suspect the owners will sell once their taxes get too high, and they will be demolished and town homes will go up.They were subsidized by the City of Houston when the HUD/section 8 compound on Allen was reduced in size. Activists wanted to keep the neighborhood "as it was". The homes were built at price points of $52k/72k/92k depending on one's need. Applicants were also given $20k downpayment assistance. The HCAD valuations were frozen for 7 years and the original owners must keep the house for 10 years or payback the down payment assistance on a prorated basis. Valuations starting moving around last year and some properties turned over or went into foreclosure. Not much action on them in the last 12-18 months but some have fought HCAD to keep the values low for now, perhaps until their 10 year down payment period is up. I think the next year will be telling in that regard as many of these homes were built in the 2003-2005 time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Excellent news! If this comes to fruition, everything from Bagby to Taft will be pretty much built out except for the body shop/Baptist church plot. Gray seems to becoming the Main St. of Midtown.Yeah, they already have retail planned next to cafe Layal and sudden impact as well as the empty lots next to it (until the church) are all up for sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Oh yea I forgot about the retail building planned for the empty lot next to Cafe Layal. I haven't heard anything about it in a while so hopefully it is still on board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Oh yea I forgot about the retail building planned for the empty lot next to Cafe Layal. I haven't heard anything about it in a while so hopefully it is still on board.I got excited when they put up that fence a long time ago, but it was just a stupid parking fence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 They were subsidized by the City of Houston when the HUD/section 8 compound on Allen was reduced in size. Activists wanted to keep the neighborhood "as it was". The homes were built at price points of $52k/72k/92k depending on one's need. Applicants were also given $20k downpayment assistance. The HCAD valuations were frozen for 7 years and the original owners must keep the house for 10 years or payback the down payment assistance on a prorated basis. Valuations starting moving around last year and some properties turned over or went into foreclosure. Not much action on them in the last 12-18 months but some have fought HCAD to keep the values low for now, perhaps until their 10 year down payment period is up. I think the next year will be telling in that regard as many of these homes were built in the 2003-2005 time frame.Thanks for informing me, hopefully they will be redeveloped into something more fitting for the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.