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I know a guy who used to have S8N for a vanity. Explain that!

I'd beg to differ. I'd be willing to wager that greed trumps prejudice in the vast majority of cases. Given that there is a choice between many employers--which there is--my question stands: why would a gay man want to work for a homophobic employer?

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Hard to say. Varies by neighborhood, and then even within the neighborhood by the size of the lot and quality of improvements. Let us know once you've narrowed your focus a bit.

Actually, the East End has historically been a pretty artsy place. Its glory faded a bit in the 80's and 90's, but Commerce Street is a gem and there are a heck of a lot of artists living in Eastwood, Lawndale, and other nearby neighborhoods. The couple that started Bohemio's live in Broadmoor. There are also commercial art and design studios on Navigation at York and along Canal. Go to any artists' event and listen to the chatter. East End and Acres Homes are the buzz. The smart money ( ) is targeting 77003, 77023, and 77011.

Yep, it sure is.

Are your choices really that narrow!? Its a big world out there.

I haven't even touched this topic until now, but I can't help but wonder why a gay person would want a homophobic employer to be forced to hire him. What gay man would want to work for such a company in the first place? For what it's worth, I'm a big believer in human rights, but not gay rights, women's rights, the rights of disabled people, or the rights of particular races/ethnicities/nationalities. In my little fantasy world, everyone is treated equally under the law; justice is blind with respect to the individual person.

Didn't know about this. Thanks for posting. I think that pavers are getting a bit cliched, though, as some sort of supposedly "unique" architectural element. Except for a stretch of Navigation, I don't think that they have anything at all to do with the East End. Its as though the planner just said: "Its an old neighborhood. Old neighborhoods should have pavers...Why? Well, that way you know its old. I mean after all, those dumb ____s that actually live and work there couldn't possibly already know that its old. They need pavers to signal that its old...No, no, nobody cares that it doesn't reflect the true historical character of the neighborhood...New and repaired sidewalks!?...Why would we build those?...Because they're cheaper and we can build more of them!? What do you think, people are actually going to use them? You clearly misunderstand the purpose of this project. It is to make the neighborhood look nice...Don't be so flippant, nice is what I tell the people that it is. They should be grateful that I'm making their early 20th century neighborhood look like a cheap 21st century interpretation of 19th century Charleston..."

They only shut it down within the last year, once TCH bought it.

Eastwood, Idylwood, and even most of Houston Country Club are already probably out of her price range, but I concur that other neighborhoods near there might fit the bill both for size and location. Broadmoor, Lawndale, Forest Hill, Mason Park. Each of those neighborhoods are good places to start. All are in the 77023 zip code.

They only removed them from the consumer site. Realtors can still search by Foreclosure status.

When the land under them has no better alternative uses. That's when. If progress is a shame, then shame on me.

Microsoft Paint. Then Photoshop to insert the red arrows.

Well lets see now, in Houston, we've got 12 cranes up over the Texas Medical Center. Projects now total in excess of 8 million square feet. And while construction cost figures are only available for about a third of all new facilities, that is already exceeding $2 billion in the main campus alone. The TMC caters to people of all walks of life; it is functional and purpose-driven. In Victory Park, I can't tell how many cranes are up because their webcam is down; I'm guessing from vague recollection that its probably 6 to 8. We're talking about something that is half the size, at 4 million square feet. And we're only talking about a $3 billion total investment, surely less than in our medical center. It caters to yuppies, feeding its image by nurturing an aire of exclusivity. If there's any doubt to that, check out their website--and make sure you have your computer's volume up. Perhaps Victory Park is named 'Victory' to commemorate the greatness of the State's assets, wherever they may be. I seriously doubt it, but that'd be perfectly appropriate, given that the whole of the State of Texas is experiencing population and employment growth at about 2.14 times that of the other 49 states and the location of Victory Park would be appropriate given that the DFW area is the most rapidly-growing metro area in the State.

For those 16 HAIFers quick enough to read this thread before 5:00 AM on Sunday, please note that I've added three more arrows to denote cranes that were in the far background that I hadn't noticed. I spotted them at the southeast corner of Holcome and Braeswood while driving around just now trying to combat insomnia.

Yeah, you were on Sampson, which is also York, Hirsch, and Scott Street at various points along its route. The park was Tony Marron Park. Going north toward I-10, you entered the Fifth Ward, which isn't technically the East End and is a notoriously bad neighborhood. South of I-45 is the Third Ward, which is marginally better than the Fifth. Once you get near and then cross Brays Bayou as you're heading toward Timmy Chan's, it gets much better, and if you'd continued south, it would've gotten worse again, but still probably not as bad as the Third or Fifth Wards. And when I'm judging good or bad neighborhoods, I'm generally relying on perceived cleanliness and safety as well as household income stats. I've spent a fair bit of time around UH and down towards Old Spanish Trail not only because that's where I went to school but because I've had a fairly large amount of business activity concentrated in that area. I've had to pull over, get out of the car, walk around, take photos, tour shopping centers and apartments, etc. Never had any problems. In fact, I'm often asked by locals whether I need assistance.

The demographics of the schools are terrible. Way too many poor brown-skinned people. Now, I myself went to schools with even worse demographics, so I'll be the first to dispute that it really and truely matters, but it matters to enough people that the neighborhood wouldn't be perceived as family-friendly. I do wonder what it might take for the management district to expand its boundaries just a bit to encompass a larger tax base (without taking in any of the poor neighborhoods), then set up a small K-12 private school. Properly advertised, that could be enormously helpful in furthering the neighborhood's appeal to families and stimulating growth. Also, the City needs to invest a bit of money in acquiring at least two or three full blocks for parks. Aside from Settegast Park in a rough neighborhood to the east and Discovery Green on the opposite side of the freeway, there aren't any. But you're definitely right that the East Downtown warehouse district does have an advantage over somewhere like Midtown in that traffic is light. It isn't a thru-route. And while there is moderate traffic to connect downtown with Harrisburg, Navigation, and Jensen, and also along Polk, Leeland, and Jefferson, it typically is very confined to a small number of routes and just isn't as overwhelming.

That's probably because population density is lower just right along there. It isn't enough just to count the number of crimes committed. You've got to count crime per capita or some such similar measurement to get a better sense of how likely it is that any one person will be impacted.

Crime stats only reflect where police reports have been filed. Poor black communities are not well known for filing police reports when there is a problem on account of three reasons: 1) they don't trust the cops, 2) the odds of getting the issue resolved are low, and 3) there's a certain level of crime that they're just used to. Contrast that to someone living in League City that'll call the cops if they just see a suspicious person walking around their neighborhood.

I won't tell HAIFers where to trespass, but parking garages are the urban photographer's best friend.

I'm guessing it was the one on the north side of Sims Drive, backing up to Sims Bayou, and one lot off of Swallow Street? I looked at that one too, but I'd pulled into the driveway, was admiring the aesthetic, and then got blasted completely unexpectedly by the roar of a landing jet. It was an awe-inspiring experience, but not one that I'd like to repeat several times per hour. One other thing that was funky about that one was that there was the big deep hole in the backyard, which was owned by HCFCD, preventing me from even landscaping it nicely with any expectation that they wouldn't come in and remove it--or for that matter invade my privacy regularly.

I stayed in Dallas earlier in the week, and also dined at N9ne. Nice place to visit, I like the shear mass of cutting edge architecture, but I'm with you--wouldn't want to live in or near Victory, and unless I've got a particular purpose like I did this time, I'm not going out of my way to make a return trip.

You express a personal opinion along with poorly-qualified asides, then--when challenged--claim to understand that bringing it about would be an inconvenience to others and that you do not wish to bring it about. You will have to forgive me for presuming that your comments were more than mere whining and that you might back up preferences with intent.