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What are the details on the improvements coming to Yale and Heights Blvd bridges?

Just trying to make sure I'm reading this correctly but it sounds like McDonald's is gone for good in this area right? And that Houston First plans to build some under the bridge park here first with the Piece Elevated eventually becoming a skywalk?

Is this the same Pho Fix that used to be in the downtown? Don't know the current underground food hall's name but it used to be called the Conservatory.

Things you don't expect to read in an architecture forum for 400, please. Let's stop the personal discussion here for now. There's no news on this development.

Looks like you are right. I found that other thread simply from Google. During rush hour, the road was back up going both ways. I'll take photos next time.

What an utter mess. They need to solve the left turn lane situation because now that all the traffic is stuck in one lane, the traffic backs up down the entire road waiting for people to turn. I saw heavy traffic from Shepherd all the way to Studewood because of it. It's so much quicker just taking the back roads now which is what I am having to do.

The more I think about it, the more this type of McDonald's makes sense here. There are still people working here obviously but it cuts down that interaction with the "locals" if you will. So they still get to serve but in a safer environment. Seems dystopian but hey... lol

Looks like this place is open? Or partially open? See plenty of people inside.

Very neat indeed!

The event space next door hosts weddings and other big events. How would that work for this place? Or is the plan to close that place down?

Makes perfect sense to me. This area used to be industrial, those had no reason to have any sort of connections to the surrounding streets. But now that there's so many restaurants, bars, and residential, this disconnected area forces people to walk quite a distance even if the bar is just a building away. We saw the powerful affect of connection once the multi-family at Lower Heights was connected to Target. Sure, more car traffic but you see people walking to Target all the time now (or just walking their dogs).

What's the other one? The Holiday Inn site?

Well I agree with you there. I've visited several cities around the US and commuter rail is a big advantage if we can get a hub out in Pearland. But I thought you were saying they needed to invest in the wide sidewalks like we see in the inner-loop. Even as someone who has biked everywhere I've lived, Pearland was probably the last place I ever wanted to bike.

It's Pearland. If they added sidewalks to Broadway, who in the world would take it? I lived in Pearland for a few years and it's 100% a driving community to get to any retail (which is what Broadway is full of). The only place people walk or bike is within their own neighborhoods. This isn't the Heights, man. lol

Ah yes, there are still many at that McDonald's on Fulton and Boundary.

Are or are not full of homeless people? I haven't seen any large clusters on N Main in years. It's hard to say this but it's the honest truth, since the Salvation Army has left, the area has drastically changed. It definitely used to feel unsafe walking to the light rail at Quitman and I certainly see more concert goers and residents taking it now. I once saw the couple with a baby in the stroller being seriously harassed by a homeless person right at that corner. That being said, we need to take care of our homeless, and community after community are rejecting future projects. I still to this day will never forget shortly after the 2016 election how people used Josue Flores' death as a way to block a project near UH-D from going forward because they said more of their children would be murdered by homeless people. Whatever does come into this development, the city needs to find some solution to the clusters of people that gathered around here when the Salvation Army was in full operation here. It was quite often people there would pee and poop in people's yards, constant serious drug and alcohol use, and I even had a guy sleeping in his underwear on my front porch and I had to tell my family to get back into the house because the guy was angry and threatening. (I saw him days later in the Target parking lot still in his underwear). I think that's why a lot of residents here, even lower income ones that require some sort of assistance themselves, do not look forward to the Salvation Army coming back here.

As long as I've been alive, it's been a bipartisan endeavor to throw billions of dollars at a project even if there are overruns. You're making it sound like the budget is capped. Just because this project overruns, doesn't necessarily mean this affects things elsewhere. There's certainly ways for TXDOT to get more money.

Certainly possible especially during the campaign season but a lot of the crime I've seen has been going on ever since the Hardy Yards apartment units first opened. Vehicles broken into is a major problem. And I think the data alone did point to a bump in crime post-Covid. (homicides, burglaries, etc.... and I don't mean at this place, I mean city and even nationwide). I guess to play devil's advocate, crime can really hit any multi-family complex especially hard but I guess it just hits me personally every time I see some alert about this place. It just plays into what this could have been... the initial renderings I saw and then the end product. True, crime could have still hit even a really nice spot and it's good we are getting some affordable housing around here. And then when I hear residents complain about the Fulton connection to San Jacinto bringing in more traffic into the area, I'm like... sure, possibly.... but it brings a better connection to our area. Anyway, sorry, just ranting over nothing. lol Hope everyone has a fun New Years. 😅

Out of all the big projects in Houston, this hands down turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments. Would have been the biggest mixed-use development close to home but instead all you hear about is the major crime going on Nextdoor at this place.

I missed the conversation before I posted. Discussing this project is fine but all the personal attacks on other posters will not be tolerated and will result in a temporary suspension from the site.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/bay-area/development/2022/12/27/us-government-authorizes-construction-for-coastal-barrier-project/

And the county has dropped the lawsuit. And since the federal government relies on local input, they'll be soon to follow. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/12/22/harris-county-signs-mou-nhhip.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search

None of us disagree. As @Houston19514 pointed out, it's just all the same material packaged in a different form... Well, actually, some of it is the same exact wording we've been hearing for years too. Here's the truth no one is admitting. A very active group came forth.. They went to the news, they went everywhere. The politicians had no choice but to either take action or potentially face primary challenges. They chose action, even though they knew from the beginning that they would do lip service, claim some sort of victory and push forward the same exact plan all along. But the cost of what they did was push back a project that should have started a while ago, now at a very expensive cost. If anyone really thinks this project is still going to cost $9 or $10 billion, they are kidding themselves.

So now that I've had sometime to go over what was released... People against this project have to realize that it appears nothing has changed whatsoever to what TXDOT has previously agreed to far before this "compromise" was declared? Some of this text is word for word what I saw at the TXDOT workshops in Midtown and in Northside years ago. I can't seem to find any new schematics but this appears to be a joke and if this was going to go forward like this, then there should have never been this delay. It's all theatrics.