N Judah
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That looks really, really nice. I saw on another thread that blocks in midtown are going for $58 per square foot. Does anyone want to take a guess about how much these units might rent for? (I'm assuming that the higher the cost of purchasing the original land, the more expensive the apartments.)
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My understanding - and this may be completely wrong - was that HCTRA wouldn't be the ones operating the toll lanes down the center of I 10. Rather, as they were not toll lanes but actually HOV lanes that just happened to charge a toll, they would be owned and operated by Metro. But I'm sure you know much more about this than I do -- I guess I'll just have to double check my sources on this one. Good points. I definitely see what you're saying. Anyway, at any rate, this new development is really win win. If rail doesn't come through there for a while, they still have attractive mixed use stuff for everyone to enjoy. But if/when rail comes through, at least they've got a head start. Then they can say that rail is justified by serving existing development, rather than basing the whole thing on the idea that it will spur develoment at some point in the future.
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Funny how no one ever mentions freeways as the cause of sprawl. Without freeways, no one would want to live so far away. Anyone who's lived here for a decent amount of time has probably noticed that the freeways come first, and then the houses. The freeways aren't built to meet demand, but rather create it (ironically the very technique that the anti-rail reactionaries disingenuously accuse rail proponents of using). If Houston were truly an organic city, we wouldn't be so spread out, but we wouldn't be crowded like the pre-car cities.
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If only for the Two Buck Chuck
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My understanding was that the contraflow toll lanes that are soon to be in the middle of I-10 would eventually be turned into rail.
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What do you mean? all I'm saying is that if a rail line ends up along i-10 in the future, it would make sense to have a stop at memorial city, esp. if this development goes up. maybe one out at that Katy Town Center too, which breaks ground later this month, btw.
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My guess is that they're priming themselves to be a stop on the commuter/heavy rail that will be coming down the pike at some point in the future.
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Here is an interesting article on 'flipping' in Las Vegas.
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If you think midtown is "ghetto" sir, you must have a pretty charmed life . . . </flame> I think Houston's growing pains aren't the result of 'ethnic diversity' (what a dumb thing to say...which councilmember was this?) so much as Houston's willingness to accommodate all kinds of diversity, including income and job diversity. Contrast this to San Francisco, which has a fully represented cross-section...of people who can afford to live in a place where the average house costs over half a million dollars. Most of the 'diversity' in SF is sleeping on the street or has already left, having been pushed out by anti-growth zealotry (the city having achieved the remarkable feat of actually *losing* diversity in the 1990s). A lot of recent immigrants live as far as the boomtown suburbs two hours to the east, which look more like Houston than anything else, and even have Houston-style infrastructure problems.
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You're talking about the Westpark Tollway, right?
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The 'Museum Walk' sounds like an interesting idea, too. I can imagine something like that taking the Museum District and packaging it in a really tourist-friendly way. Maybe it will be the Big Draw everyone here is waiting for.
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Zoning also involves height restrictions, which create an artificial scarcity of resources. For example, if Houston were suddenly zoned to only allow 5 story buildings to be built in downtown, then it is my impression that a building at a prime location which would otherwise have many units at a lower cost would, under zoning, have fewer units at a higher cost. I don't think zoning could dictate whether affordable projects can go next to high-end ones as that is a market thing, but I do think that zoning does alter the market conditions that affect whether or not anyone would find it profitable to bother to build anything affordable. This is all my opinion of course, since I don't know a whole lot about zoning laws either.
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I think the early adopters (the first 10,000) will probably be yuppie types, but the absence of zoning in Houston will let the market eventually provide opportunities for downtown living for other people as well. Trust me, you're not the first one here to ask that question. Pretty much everyone is hoping for a sustainable downtown, not just some flash in the pan trendy one.
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Now where are all of those eminent domain faux-libertarian paranoiacs when you need them?
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Ok, so petty theft is apparently not uncommon for townhome dwellers. But what's it like for people living in apartments? Is security tight enough that if I, say, move to a midtown apt I don't have to worry about people sneaking in and taking my stuff?
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The Galleria Mall At 5085 Westheimer Rd.
N Judah replied to TreaderCRC's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
I've been to LA and I really didn't think the girls there were that attractive or cosmopolitan. Sure, there are some good looking people there, but on average it's nothing to write home about. And I really wouldn't feel like Houston is missing anything by not having its own Real World or awards show. Out of all of the cities whose names have been thrown around on this site, Los Angeles is the last one Houston should aspire to become like. -
