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So, I went to the website. The white piping on Marlowe's lapel and jacket collar makes him look like a waiter. So, I guess smart waiters will be buying here. Good to know.

So it'll be super cheap to live there then?

Will ther be any units facing it?

While I haven't done the math, I would bet that you could own a nice, reasonably updated, 3 bedroom brick home of about 1500 -1700 sq feet in Sharpstown Country Club Estates or Country Club Terrace for a mortgage of about $800 (or less) per month.

I consider that quite good.

Edit.... I have now gone and looked at HAR. There are a dozen very nice homes with updated kitchens .

Couldn't qiote the wjole thing.

Don't forget insurance, closing costs, pmi, warranty, taxes, etc, etc.

Midtown?

I didnt mean for the bums... I meant for us.

Sheeesh... let's hope they don't run out of money and leave it half built.

Did they really have an actual groundbreaking both times? Seems like if you're breaking ground, you're telling the world you're going to build. Even if you're just doing it in a sandbox.

Yes. I remember the first one. I was working in downtown at that time and drive right by it. While at the red light at this same corner, it started raining so hard, it was difficult to tell what colors the semaphores were. Started out of the blue. Guess that was a sign.

Too bad this thing is dead. Again.

Is it still not done?

Is it me or does work seem to be progressing slowly?

Hopefully somewhere where it can be seen and appreciated.

Depends on the species, of course.

I didn't realize people hated palm trees. Then again, there are people who hate babies, clouds, ice cream, and beaches.

Palm trees are ugly imho. They harbor rodents, snakes, and wasps. Not good ehen you're tcreateto create a walkable environment.

I agree. To me, the clock tower looks like one that would be in an old-timey railroad depot.

So run of the mill cookie cutter project from Katy?

It would have looked nice on the perimeter of Discover Green or close to 59.

Or in midtown. :-)

Likely another box. I hope I'm wrong.

State Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Houston) being rumored to launch 3rd campaign for the Mayor's office in 2015.

Him again? He struck me as a sore loser last time. I wish he would go away. He doesn't seem to be very effective at all.

Has this pithecan grown so lazy that now we have to do his job for him?

One suggestions I have is to stop giving pay raises to ciry workers - with exceptions to police, firefighters, etc.

That's not how supply and demand works. The tenants don't follow the buildings - the buildings follow the tenants.

I wonder then... why would companies choose to locate so far from the city core?

Good luck with that... 

Sorry

No problem.

Buldoze it to the ground and move the greyhound station there.

Negative. I'm in the east end. I think Katy would be a more appropriate place. After all... Katy-ian churches are running around downtown trying to spread their lies feed the homeless. Well then let's bring the needy to them.

A lot of ignorance here.  As per usual, most critics of Metro are still stuck in 2006 and have not moved on with the rest of world to the current year, 2014.  A lot of the issues that Metro has stem from Frank Wilson, the deposed former CEO that wasted millions, didn't build one inch of rail, and nearly lost all Federal funding after that Buy America fiasco.  When you make that many mistakes it takes a gargantuan effort to clean up, and unfortunately the clean up fell upon those who didn't make the mess in the first place.  However, the typically ignorant anti Metro crowd seems to think that the world operates like a 1980s film montage and through a few minutes of cheap, disposable pop music and some cutscenes we will have an up and running rail system.  Things don't work like that.  Building a rail system is expensive in both time and capital even if everything goes according to plan.  So after years of the Caligula like reign of Frank Wilson, rife with corruption, mismanagement and delays, you're not going to be able to wave a wand and get back on schedule and budget because you installed new leadership.  This isn't a transit simulation sandbox where you plot your line, click confirm and presto it's complete!  

 

Secondly, as always, no one actually cares about the nuts and bolts Metro bus system.  As the system lay breathing it's last during the Wilson years everyone was complaining about Light Rail.  Who cares?  They didn't even have enough buses to run on the routes and services that weren't cut to fund more of the Light Rail project.  No one cared though.  Metro just completed a massive overhaul proposal of a bus system with roots back to World War 2 that would drastically alter the travel patters in this city, for the better, and no one cares.  Except the extremely tiny but very vocal minority which this "new" Metro listens to to almost a fault.  Most Metro critics don't know nor understand the most basic aspects of the bus system and don't care to know.  They just want to see a shiny new train whiz by that they will only ride until too many of those bus "riff raff" start finding their way aboard.

 

Transit engineering is a complex and involved process on it's own.  When you politicize it, it is darned near impossible.  This new leadership at Metro has turned this agency around tremendously since Frank Wilson was tossed out by his ear five years ago.  Are they perfect, no.  Are they as terrible as the uninformed arm chair transit pundits will have you believe, not by a long shot.  

That's great but... has anyone interviewed Wilson from his jail cell? What does he have to say about this mess he created and the millions of dollars collected from honest, hard working, law abiding citizens?

They didn't "lie" about it. You think they would've taken this long to screw around for some overpass conspiracy? They took until the beginning of this year to figure out a way to make it work and because of that delayed the opening of the last stretch for another two years. They're losing money on this and if you honestly think they were lying this entire time then you're delusional.

If they really were going to do an overpass from the beginning then they wouldn't have waited this long to start construction, they would've built it when they were constructing the rest of the line.

METRO really tried to make this work, hard enough to know that it wouldn't be ready in time for the full line opening. It just didn't happen.

METRO is not in the business of making money. They are a government agency and should not be out to make a profit but rather to serve citizens. Period.

If there are budgetary discrepancies (i.e. losing money) then management should be replaced. Period.

Lame design.

Ok where are the pics? :-)

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2014/10/grand-parkway-exxon-inspire-new-submarket.html

New Caney, Porter, Atascocita, and Humble are now under the control of the Kingwoodianites. Now as someone with family in the northeast of Houston, I for one would like to welcome our suburban overlords and remind them as an active poster on HAIF that I can round up others to frequent the endless new front parking stripmalls, buy homes on cold-a-sacs, and to sit in the mind-numbing sprawl-induced traffic that will result.

Is this good or bad?