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real simple answer...Klein Forest received the southern half of Acres Homes for racial purposes years ago and the part of Inwood that was zoned to KISD switched over to being majority black. Bammel N. Houston offers direct access to Acres Homes and homes along the street changed as public access improved...if you drive down Veterans its 100% minority and it's a straight shot to I-45 and Acres Homes Westfield changed the same way but it wasn't because of rezoning...that area, along with Klein Forest, was a move-up area from Acres Home and Aldine ISD and anytime a suburban area borders a large, minority area, the suburban area changes if the homes aren't out of price range in addition to an abundance of apartments

what year you finished from GSU? I'm a PV grad but have the strongest connection to GSU literally right about now

GSUTiger...lol.. I grew up near Post Oak but on the other side of main...with Windsor Village getting a new church and the new roads out there my old area is the place to be finally.....Hillcorft and BW8 is undergoing massive growth and how that takes off will determone how things grow...but we're only 12 miles from downtown and with main being an expressway we're in one of the better parts of town

Please...HISD folks with the cash shipped their kids to Bellaire, Lamar or any of the special magnet schools..what I cannot figure is how HISD extends way out there in between 3 school districts... Westside High was built to give HISD another "flagship" public school because Bellaire and Lamar has seen its best days...problem with Westside outside of recruiting inner city athletes is that their athletic facilities (varsity) are nearly 25 miles away... they play way at Butler Stadium on Main which is closer to the loop along with Lamar and Bellaire....hardly no fans will drive out there to watch them as it is with no real history behind the school....

I grew up across main street near Hillcroft and remember the Square but didn't realize the impact as a kid.... the bottom line was the area got rough...I remember the taco bell on chimney rock where it was nothing but a place to be robbed at...the strip center that used to be behind it was always vacant the apartments never did much for the area and when people began running to Sugar Land things never recovered in the area...but when you cross bellfort though it's still nice and the homes have held up well...great access to the loop and anywhere in Houston.

"Children At Risk"...didn't know there were that many "at-risk" 30 miles from the city...don't know what formula or crap they used for that but all that will do is move more folks to move west thinking life is better out there outside of the Charter School on there.....those schools in the top 10 have a entirely different pool of kids to choose from with majority having access to two parents, affluent households and other things..... according to that list I should be a failure and my college educated parents made a bad move by enrolling me at a school that's low on the list 15 years ago

makes me want to consider settling in Navasota and take advantage of the offshoot growth

Texas Southern need a stadium and HISD needs an inner-city stadium to keep Lamar, Bellaire, Wheatley, etc. from playing too far away from their campuses..the solution is build one together Lamar never draws much of a crowd but I can see how when most of the kids don't live near each other and there's no real sense of neighborhood pride. Plus, if I live in River Oaks and given the option of staying home or fighting traffic to see Lamar play Lee at Butler Stadium, might as well stay home. Only time Lamar's students show is when they'll play Yates or so and that's because most of the athletes live that way or somewhere in South Park.

My parents experienced it when they moved to the subdivision I was raised in during the 70s...the older residents moved out and as blacks moved in which led to the emergence of the Highway 6 portion of Missouri City and Sugar Land. why the flight? Can it be explained? Blacks at that time were mostly in 3rd ward by TSU and had Dowling Street as their main artery...what event triggered white flight across 610 further south when they had a stronghold in the area? whites had palm center, then the intersection off MLK near Jutland (I think, the lot is abandoned now) and then they moved south near Sterling and had the area on telephone and bellfort....the yum yum pit is gone, the baskin robbins is gone, etc. Now, it's Pearland, Clear Lake, League City....etc. Looks like white flight destroys more areas than anything

why did the area change and residents move further south towards hobby? With that location I couldn't see how an area can change so fast....problem is...the people kept moving and every neighboorhood towards the beltway along telephone, bellfort, mlk, etc. looks the same now because residents aren't stable..

Lamar, Bellaire....none of those schools have any pride.....the kids don't attend football, basketball, events, etc. because I guess they think Butler Stadium is too far....that's a big chunk of high school life...no community pride Most of the athletes at those schools aren't zoned there anyway....most of Lamar comes from the 3rd ward or the Southside just like Bellaire. Those schools are good if your kid wants to go to school and come back home

won't work........all it takes is one incident and the plans are scrapped.....

I remember the commercials but never thought anything else about it until recently... I was at Astroworld in the early 90s and used this thing called Yak or Yack....it was somewhat of a computer but it let you call to other computers and you could look things up. It was an early edition of the internet but very few people had it.... What was the concept and does anyone have links to any sites?

I remember the old Malibu off SW Freeway and the one that finally closed at 610....I-45 North and South had tons of go-kart tracks but none exist anymore.... Fame City's demise was that they stopped fixing their rides that always seemed to break down - especially the one where you shot green and red dots while going around on a machine in the dark....also..the foodcourt never was utilized and only one or two places remained open. I went to the "other" Fame City 7 years ago that was named Chico's Funplex and it went south literally I haven't been to the Oil Ranch since the 80s but it still exists....as for Astroworld...they used to cater to teenagers by staying open 'till 2 a.m., then midnight but stopped at 10 p.m. Fright Night was a huge event in the 80s and early 90s and Holiday in the Park was fun also. Astroworld used to open the year with a new ride that made you want to go there because they flashed it in the commercials all the time and mass mailed it to your house. As for Playland Park..my dad remembers it.....he said he could only go on certain days for obvious reasons

technically..Alief never turned "black"...it's a mixture of everything.... you would be surprised that alot of whites own property in black areas and keep renting to some less than desirable folks which continues the cycle. As long as the seciton 8 money hits the account on the 1st they really don't care. I'm black, keep to myself and have been exposed to life in the black neighborhood and the white neighborhood...for people to move away or make accusations based on skin color is ridiculous... the real question is why some whites never banded together and refused to sell in some areas in order to prevent areas from changing. It's sad to see how can 610 South ALL the way to The Beltway has changed because people continue to run away.

exactly how does Newquest acquire their land in large chunks? They aggressively harrass the buyer? Offer above market value?

never say never....you probably never thought Westfield would turn as fast and Aldine ISD would completely switch either.... I remember when Pearland was a pasture at 288 and look at it now.....alot of the areas off I-45 were former African American communities..Stuebner and 1960 was and we know about Tamina. Conroe lost its toughness...

articles like that encourage development but at the same time you got people who fought for that land fighting now to keep their neighborhood....it's no coincidence Ella Road is four lanes from 610 to Little York now.

Madison, Sterling, Westbury, Willowridge, Jones, Milby, etc. used to be lilly white and blacks were sometimes shipped there by force. Eventually, some will stay and then the area changes...My parents used to tell me South Park from Griggs (Palm Center) to Bellfort used to be beautiful but people running away at the first sign of color moving in and no zoning makes for trouble. The area between Mykawa and Telephone is heavily wooded and had alot of unique businesses. I think Crestmont was the name and was zoned to Sterling. You have whites in town who went to those schools but act ashamed when asked about their past. Now, Westfield and Aldine is similar to HISD and they act like that's bad word. Imagine when The Woodlands gets like that... I grew up off of Blue Ridge Road in Briargate and the area hasn't really taken much of a nose dive outside of retailers leaving in the past and we're gaining old residents back because they see the houses were built better and the area isn't high density with apartments. The neatest ones are more than 5 miles away tucked away from the neighborhoods. Pearland is following the same path Missouri City is in terms of people running away out there and my question is what's next?

You can't beat its location no matter who lives there...the area isn't overlay crazy and alot of the people are moving further north anyway so eventually it's setting up for a change. another spot I recommend watching is 5th ward near 610.....alot of rental properties there and an industrial area in addition to not being the best environment but you can't beat the location. But for now...Independence Heights is worth taking a look at

Original Timmy Chan.....which "original" TC are you referring to? The South Park Location on MLK or the one on Hillcroft which actually served fried chicken from self rising flour? The Hillcroft location was the best one and was known for some legitimate chinese food. The ones we see now are nothing but six wings/fried rice joints and the product isn't the same. Prairie View is in a prime area and needs to capitalize on the growth.....it's turning into a commuter campus now for undergrads because housing has risen drastically the past few years and it's cheaper to stay off 1960 and 290 in a cheap apartment complex than stay on campus.

If you talk to people who went to school during the beginning of integration....the district's tried to get slick and pass hispanics off as whites and they integrated those schools first.. Technically, minorites (mostly black) have received the shaft when it came to the quality of schools in some districts. Just think, if Acres Homes wasn't split up to fill a quota in the 70s and 80s and Carver High was open and successful, you may never get a large amount of people moving up the road to Aldine and Klein Forest. The law technically has brought minorities to some areas where they probably never intended on going. Do you honestly think people who lived in Acres Homes back in the 70s wanted to attend Klein High School when that meant a bus ride of almost 30 minutes? Look at Westfield...I attended Willowridge (which was predominately white but turned into a successful middle class black high school for a brief period) and we played Westfield back in 1993 and they were lilly white. The drive from SW Houston to Spring took FOREVER. The next week, we're back at Thorne Stadium for Aldine and they were the big dog in the area and I left thinking Aldine will never be sorry in football. Well, well, well......Westfield is the top dog out there in Spring ISD now and looks like Aldine of the 90s and 80s....the people living out there were former Aldine ISD residents who'll tell you they are moving away because the area is becoming too hispanic. The whites are flocking to Klein and all points north but what happens when the next great northen migration occurs? Huntsville?

ain't no scarier than any other place in town.....4th ward used to be rough...3rd ward is far cry from its old stomping grounds. When land is cheap..peole tend to overlook

One small population shift scares the hell out of people now.....this thing has been going back to the 60s when the whites in HISD left the loop and kept moving towards the Beltway and eventually past the Beltway... FBISD is minority now HISD is minority Aldine ISD is minority now Spring ISD is minority now... watch out.... Now, your taking over these once country town outposts and that's a different animal when you deal with some of those kids. What happens when they act up?

Older landowners have prevented the development....I had the opportunity to interview the manager of Jack-In-The-Box back in 1999 when it first opened in Waller and he said they wanted to come to PV first but could not acquire any land. Those same landowners also said they wanted 290 to run below ground so that's why the freeway runs below at the point. The Williams Chicken was some kind of deal with the city and designed to be a training center. With Houston coming that way now I don't see PV really developing much on its own. Alot of students commute to Houston anyway and the professional folks who are getting jobs there now are staying in the suburbs anyway so once 5 p.m. hits they are back in Houston.