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I'm surprised the lack of retail at that corner in terms of food. 

I guess that's good for Luby's as that's a popular location and the only one going south until Pearland and West Airport

On 5/12/2020 at 9:05 AM, Houston19514 said:

 

So, your concern is TSU parking, not the restaurants' parking??   Seems like a topic for another thread.

It's both...put them both together it gets uglier as I see cars parking up and down Rosewood, etc. all the time. TSU has parking but most of it is situated towards the back.

Why would a place of business open with such a large glaring issue to begin with? And who allows that?

They don't care obviously.

On 5/12/2020 at 7:51 AM, Texasota said:

 

Plenty of townhomes are more than 2500 sf, but that's an arbitrary standard anyway. Would you say a 3br, 2 bath ranch on a 7000 sf lot isn't "real", just because it's *only* 1800 sf?

 

And how do useless side yards make a neighborhood "real"? Your personal preference may be a big house on a big, wasteful lot, but that doesn't mean that configuration is actually better than other (and equally traditional - rowhomes/townhomes are perfectly normal throughout history, across an infinite variety of cities, regions, nations, architectural styles) housing types.

 

If your argument is that home ownership gives a resident more "skin in the game" or whatever, well, that applies to any house, regardless of the size of the yard. 

you from Navasota with that name? If so, we can talk from a way different perspective.

I've lived in row home communities and townhomes in other regions. Nothing like raising a kid with a "yard" and having some semblance of community if taken care of. The problem in Houston we build these dense developments without kids in mind but it turns into kids living there in the long term and you have an issue. Haven't we learned from this across the city already

Yates isn't as bad as we think. The enrollment is way smaller now, better facilities, etc. This is coming from Yates grads who are back teaching there.

I know first hand you can get more aid at an inner city school from non-minority institutions ranked in the top 20% or higher as opposed to larger suburban schools. I know personally from watching 3 family members at a HISD school do so and they didn't even make a big effort in seeking those schools out. Schools looking to increase diversity go there first.

and school ranking matters with that top 10% college admission rule. (pre-covid-19) If you're trying to get into certain state schools and get auto admission why go somewhere that will cause you to lose sleep when you can get it easier? The end goal is the same.

TSU will account for parking on a larger scale than a restaurant who knows parking will be an issue and the losers are the neighbors.

actual neighborhoods with space between the homes - like the neighborhoods that are south or west of them. We have enough multifamily / townhome communities nearby. I meant 2500 square foot home at least. 

But we know its about cramming them in like sardines so that's a longshot

On 4/18/2017 at 1:40 AM, JLWM8609 said:

They usually prefer private schools and magnet schools.

considering the parents who owned at that time in the area went to segregated schools its odd how that changed when it came to the kids education. The biggest threat to any area is a unified and strong African American school. When it happens folks make sure to break it up.

Yates is probably the only one left in the city that can pull it off as they still have the demographics, the name and the facilities to pull it off and be a model school but other blacks from HISD will need to realize why be ranked #400 at Lamar and you get nothing in return when a higher rank at a minority school offers better scholarship opportunities.

Where does parking figure into all of this? Especially when school is in? It's horrible out that way.

Just eminent domain all the land to TSU..let them add additional athletic facilities/buildings and build a mixed use in it to incorporate it all.

It's all going to come to a head.

does the airport extension run through the course?

more multifamily or some actual housing on 2500 sq ft lots? I know that's a wish but no more multifamily or townhomes, doesn't promote long term. Once the multifamily gets old then we're back to the same old crap

Yates has the same fields. But no lights so it’s basically just for practice

Lamar has to keep their campus attractive so they keep getting the folks to attend from out the zone. The excuse was facilities then but not the same anymore as most HISD schools are rebuilt 

at Holmes and Kirby a RV park is coming oddly enough. Now that Buffalo Speedway is wide open, you can see the potential for some additional housing but will they do it? It could be a solid upper middle class area and spur development if done right. Don't make it dense and you have trees already.

That area will arguably have some of the best access as West Airport will run all the way through (ends at Post Oak) from I-45.

Buffalo Speedway runs from 59 to West Fuqua

Orem runs from 288 to Fondren but will eventually go from Mykawa

Hiram Clarke will eventually run to the Beltway from 90

nothing major...just a 4 lane road with a green median down the middle and a bunch of old motor hotels. The Fire Station was there and at Willowbend I think it was a Ice House called Vernells

I know for a fact one of these developments weren't wanted and there were backroom deals to get it done

I have a book of clubs from the late 70s and early 80s. A lot started in the loop and made their way out to the suburbs by then 

That location was a Luke’s Hamburger 

Very underrated place as there was another in Hiram Clarke 

He is retiring so who cares.......he doesn't say that if he doesn't resign

Tsu's target demographic is what ut wants also...an academically sound African American and to fill certain quotas they will offer them more financial aid than what tsu would offer at times

just take the upper decks down....done....

you mean the big Newquest sign that said HEB anchored center by my house in 2001 or the press release articles that appeared in every black newspaper?

http://docs.newquest.com/brochures/beltfuqua.pdf  need any more proof?

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2003/03/03/daily19.html(promises 68K square foot stores in Acres Homes also)

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs051/1109196647426/archive/1110238159366.html(on how the community did not want a JOEVs on West Bellfort)

I knew alot of Lanier folks but they never lived out there....HISD is finally cracking down on certain schools robbing the district of desired students

HEB promised nice, shiny stores off West Fuqua and Beltway 8, Veterans Memorial in Acres Homes, etc....

nothing ever showed up but when they developed this "JOE V" concept they dropped that in all minority areas except the Fuqua location which remains vacant to this day...even had a meeting where they built a JOE V off West Bellfort and everyone there saw that the McClellend guy (president) rushed in and out and did not care when they wanted to explain why there was no HEB coming?

HEB could easily convert it to a decent HEB if they wanted to but it's there for quota purposes as if it closes down and they try to steer the traffic to Gulfgate, all hell would break loose

yall can keep the red colored glasses on if you want 

these businesses aren't dumb....it'll be stuff specific to the area like the rest

if HEB could, they would leave 3rd ward like they've abandoned other minority areas they never built in but promised but they know the political pressure would kill them

that grocery parcel will probably be Pyburns type grocery..nothing major

fast food/gas stations will always rule that area

Incredible Universe off 610.....alot of fanfare only to fizzle away

Cloth World.....lasted long...the strip centers they were in turned seedy and that was it

Kinney Shoes...lasted long also....payless hurt them but they also were located smack dab in the middle of communities and off the major roadways...usually when the neighborhood dried up, they went with it

what about Buster Brown shoes

you blink while driving on 290 between the Outlets and Spring Cypress you think you're in the same area...the same exact thing...the site plan had a Jack-In-The-Box also...