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  1. MikeRichardson
    Have you actually tried going to said location? First I cried, then I wanted to kill myself. They have one combined entrance/exit to the parking lot, on South Rice. There is no turn lane, and at 4 PM the traffic stacks up. "easy to get to, less congestion" - LOL.
  2. MikeRichardson
    I was at Richmont Square today amongst several other apartments, looking for a new place now that the last Westcreek building is being demolished next year. The price is certainly right - $1095 for a 1064 sq ft. 2 bed/2 bath. Had no idea about the ownership until I got home today and started Googling stuff. I noticed the two buildings (and the office/clubhouse) in the back were fenced off. Asbestos abatement is going on in the old apartments and the former leasing office is now a field office for the asbestos contractor. I tried to sneak back to the shady pool area just to take a peek but some dude stopped me. If I knew for a fact that I could get at least 2 years out of Richmont then I might move there. My first apartment ripped me off on the security deposit but it's been nice at both of the Westcreek units not having to worry about that after I move out. Not that I am leaving them in terrible condition but it seems like they always try to do anything to abscond with your deposit.
  3. MikeRichardson
    More evidence in favor of the Walgreens moving there. https://portal.dailycourtreview.com/downloads/publicnotices/2014/10/PublicNotices9Oct2014.pdf Too bad, the old Walgreens was really old - made it interesting, in an anachronistic sort of way.
  4. MikeRichardson
    They seem to be grading (leveling) right now.
  5. MikeRichardson
    (philosophy being defined as quality over quantity) I agree in regards to quality over quantity. For example, I usually buy top of the line Mac computers that last 2x or 3x longer than cheap PCs. I only recently retired the Power Mac G5 computer that I bought in August 2004 - but I plan to drive it up to my mom's house this weekend, and upgrade her from an even older Power Mac G4. Hopefully she can get another year of use out of the G5. What is the definition of quality for clothes, however? Is the fabric on a more expensive garment actually of better quality? Is it more durable than a cheaper garment? Surely a large amount of the cash put towards the purchase of name-brand "fashionable" type garments, goes towards costs such as marketing, which have no bearing on the build quality of the actual product, and in fact marketing serves to influence customers to potentially disregard practical benchmarks such as quality and durability in favor of more superficial benchmarks such as brand and fashion.
  6. MikeRichardson
    http://www.etro.com/en_us/man/autumn-winter-14-15/jackets.html God yes? More like god damn. Commence hate posts/flaming now, I don't really care.
  7. MikeRichardson
    Got my eviction notice today. I thought this building had been sold to Pelican, not Gables.
  8. MikeRichardson
    Sounds like you wasted a lot of gas for nothing. We've got both a Richardson Street and Road in Houston.
  9. MikeRichardson
    Really? No. I was a bit tired when I wrote the original post, but the basic premise still stands. ROD just isn't that damned fantastic.
  10. MikeRichardson
    ... do you get off the road at, calling people "retarded"? ... I don't really care - mostly, I just wanted to also post a massively oversized and unnecessary GIF, stolen borrowed from a graphic design firm that last updated their website in 1998.
  11. MikeRichardson
    Please heed your own advice. ROD will certainly be different from what existed there previously. To a surplus of people, it will likely be considered an improvement - but only to a dearth of people will it be considered some magnificent spectacle, worth of comparison to the Astrodome. By general consensus, ROD is considered a general improvement. Either reveal your true intentions, or cease heaping unsubstantiated praise upon a project of which the typical praise might, on a good day, conjure a lukewarm compliment at best.
  12. MikeRichardson
    It is my understanding, that a new road will connect the West Loop Feeder, Northbound to Westcreek Ln, and the new Peloton office tower will be built in consideration of said new road.
  13. MikeRichardson
    It looks like there is a net gain in residential units (when you consider the new Davis Proj. + SkyHouse River Oaks) when compared to the old apartments on that same land. This is a net improvement for the area. Westcreek Ln is really a residential street, it has been for over 35 years now. River Oaks District was a net reduction in residential units. It looks like these other developments should make up for that loss, with a fair margin. Hopefully, maybe, one of the TBA projects will consider some upper-middle income units instead of going all out total luxury. So many middle of the road units are going/will be going away without replacement - eventually, the market will bear the consequences.
  14. MikeRichardson
    It probably renders screwed up so here's the link. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0h7zvm0ao39xuac/2014-09-04%2014.12.22.jpg
  15. MikeRichardson
    Yeah, the buildings are totally gone. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xbokm6ztbblle2k/AAAVq3DNrqHTZRtQMRrHmwzAa?dl=0 Bunch of pics I took over several days, and a few videos that I have not had the time to go through. Was able to get so close since I actually live in the remaining building.
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    I found this interview with Jane Hudson, one of the co-founders of B4-U-Eat, and some magazine I've never heard of called "My Table", that allegedly exists. http://my-table.com/sidedish/13-nosy-questions-with-jane-hudson/ They failed to even ask why the site was closed, but Hudson did vaguely mention "retirement" - and that the database has not been destroyed, but is explicitly not being offered to anyone else, either. I assume that if the database is ever offered again, so much time will have passed that the information will only have historical value. Even if you junked the reviews, the listings alone were probably better than any other site out there, but they become inaccurate, outdated, as more time passes.
  17. MikeRichardson
    They all seem like pretty random fake shapes to me.
  18. MikeRichardson
    They are now doing asbestos abatement in the building located at 2221 Westcreek Lane. This is the building that sits between the ROD and the now-cleared land where B & D buildings once stood. On the other side of the street, there's been some utility disconnections at A & C buildings (where the office tower is going), and some utility reconnections at the lone occupied E building. A new electric meter is being installed for the common area lighting. According to the property manager, this is "good news" and means Highland Terrace (2220 Westcreek Lane) will stick around until "January". Pelican probably needs to build and sell their townhomes first before they have enough capital to build their new mid-rise apartment building.
  19. MikeRichardson
    It's been pretty damn swift since the actual demolition. Took them months to sit around/waste time/prep the demo, and the actual demo was done in like a week.
  20. MikeRichardson
    The new "parcels" do not correspond to the old apartment buildings, except for parcel "C" being the same as building "E". Skyhouse is being built on land where two buildings once stood, so they both had to come down.
  21. MikeRichardson
    The Highland Terrace apartments (2220 Westcreek Ln) are being actively marketed for short term (2 month) rentals, available "though May 2014". http://www.apartmentguide.com/apartments/Texas/Houston/Highland-Terrace/552/ Posted 1 day ago: http://houston.craigslist.org/apa/4391423912.html Not sure if that could be interpreted as "new leases available to start until May" (implying termination in July), or "sign up now and live here until May". I couldn't obtain any solid information from the manager. Also, HBJ is reporting that all 3 remaining tracts "are under contract to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed price". This includes the San Felipe frontage, and the awkward plot of land sandwiched between the future Pelican townhomes and the ROD - the plot which Cypress had originally planned on retaining for some unknown reason, at 2221 Westcreek Ln. Although the land has an apartment building on it which is not in the process of being demolished, it was rendered unusable after demo work started on the adjacent building and blocked access to tenant parking in the rear. Anyway, thought it was interesting.
  22. MikeRichardson
    B and D are now gone. For some reason, the old leasing office building hasn't been touched at all. They didn't abate the asbestos either. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but it looks like the only reason why F building was evicted is because they did not retain enough land adjacent to the building to permit the use of the covered parking in the rear. Otherwise, the entire building is still owned by Cypress.
  23. MikeRichardson
    Prime Cable was a system I remember growing up in the 90's. They might have merged with TCI. One apartment we had Phonoscope for a while. They merged a few times, I think before that it was called "OpTel". Originally when we moved there, the landlord ran their own proprietary cable company, they had like 10 huge satellites on some adjacent land. Only problem is that they forgot to bill anyone, so everyone got all of the premium channels for years before they tore down the satellites. In 1998 we moved to an apartment complex served by TCI, they were offering the "innovative" new digital cable which we had for 6 months. You could only get 1 cable box, and they also deleted 10 analog channels in order to provide the 80 or so digital ones. Time Warner did not add digital until at least 2002 at the house we moved to. For info about satellite, look at the national services like Direct TV, they are all national providers.
  24. MikeRichardson
    Micro Center would be committing instant suicide in Houston if they closed that store without an immediate and nearby replacement.
  25. MikeRichardson
    They didn't waste any time at all. This was building B, my old building late this morning. My old apartment is now rubble.
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