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15 hours ago, Skyboxdweller said:

Just when I think they are done excavating they start scraping away another layer of soil. I wonder where all of this clean fill is going ? 

To raise land for new suburban homes in the flood plains!

Kinda seems like an island at this moment due to the street grid...but there are nearly 2,000 multi-family units under construction within about 1 mile and even more planned---the opportunity exists for many thousands more in the area. 

...and right before that, I think the plan was several hundred townhomes. 

If it ends up being a Buc-ee’s, I’m moving to Canada. 

Amen!

My guess is the population jump will only be  striking in Downtown and Midtown plus maybe Museum Park/Med Center in 2020; new developments replaced older, smaller properties particularly in Uptown, Heights, River Oaks/Greenway, and Washington. Also, gentrification and changing demographics skew numbers slightly.  With that said, going forward, population should rise quite quickly with any new dense development in these areas--most older housing properties have already been replaced. Also, the rapid de-industrialization of the Inner Loop and industrial boom in the suburban fringe in recent years will add to the population increase over the next ten years.

A summary of the last few pages in this thread.

I personally like it when parking is mixed--some garage, some out front, some in back. This way employees and delivery trucks can park in the hidden spaces and patrons can use the more convenient, visible spots.  With that said, placing structures closer to the street has been proven to slow drivers overall. Drivers tend to speed at higher rates in places that are seemingly wide and open. Regardless, this is good infill on a small lot.

These small, former car lots in this area are quickly going away. One side effect, which the neighborhoods will quickly realize, is that this lot currently holds ~50 bar patron cars that will now be parking on the residential streets.  The residential parking permits won't work well  on many streets due to the City's current method of defining these permit areas which tend to only benefit deed restricted neighborhoods without scattered condo and commercial structures. I can't wait to pop the popcorn and watch FB/ND blow up.

53 minutes ago, Visitor said:

Love to see vacant lots go away. Hope it spells the death of the two bars across from it. 

 

Wonder if we can influence them to do street frontage with parking in the back?

 

loopnet listing:

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/4112-Washington-Ave-Houston-TX/14259512/

haha--who was the influencer with the one at Jackson Hill...

Infill retail/office: NW corner of Washington at Bonner. Another small vacant, asphalt lot bites the dust. 

dupe topic--this is the W. Dallas site

Demo underway

I didn't see a drawing--only a photo of an existing HHA project used as artwork on the Report Cover. Is there a rendering? I would assume this would be a dense mid-rise or something similar like the one planned in Uptown a few years back.

...someone has the site plan...gimme gimme.

What's the phrase? Rome wasn't built overnight? At least it's being reconstructed-- I can't say that for my neighborhood streets. Maybe the crew that put the masts up was able to squeeze their job in early and the crew that removes the old ones can't complete their job until all the roadwork is done? 

That photo is of N Kirkwood at Memorial which is being rebuilt. The masts are new, as the road is nearly complete now. Google street view shows the history quite well. 

4 minutes ago, southerncrj said:

Hey everyone, this is my first post, although I have been following the forum for a while. 

 

I do not think it has been posted,  but it seems Hardy Yards got its official website and Facebook page up:
https://www.hardyyardsliving.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Apartment---Condo-Building/Hardy-Yards-Apartment-Homes-570592853358049/

Thanks southerncrj---and welcome! 👋

Thank you, next...

Is the garage boutique at least?

3 hours ago, On to the Next One said:

Does this replace David Weekley's below townhome development or is it adjacent?

 

http://swamplot.com/where-a-new-timbergrove-neighborhood-is-now-springing-up-across-610-from-the-northwest-mall/2018-06-27/

I think these apartments are going in directly west of the townhome site. There is a stormwater prevention sign titled "Alliance MF" or something of the like right about where the western property line of those townhomes are going in...there was definitely clearing happening---but yeah, the photo mostly shows the townhome infrastructure now that I look at a map.

2525 Minimax - Alliance MF

So, I think about this very topic a lot. I know I've bitched about in before on HAIF. I believe Houston has less litter than it did two decades ago. I can recall seeing trash swirling around the freeways in the 90s and 00s. I definitely see humans and trucks cleaning up litter on all the freeways regularly now. I travel around Texas a lot, and I think Houston Metro has some of the cleanest freeways in terms of litter.

I don't care what the City says, they do not have street sweepers going up and down the major roads. If they did, the trash and sandbars that have developed since 1989 would not exist.All that crap ends up clogging our drains and costing us more in the long run.

Now...the streetscapes are a whole other animal. Let's just not discuss the truly ridiculous amount of ditches in dense urban neighborhoods--that's an entire topic on it's own.  IMO the City is reactive and relies on 311 way too much. One of my biggest pet peeves is fallen traffic signs and street lamps hit by vehicles. When citizens are forced to report everything, people just assume others will do it. I've tested this many times and left fallen signs alone--they are only reported a small fraction of the time. The City will fix them within 24 hours...they have people to do this...but if you don't report, I guess the employees just don't work. The plastic water meter lids are another streetscape issue that bothers me. Thousands float away after every flood event. Require a better design and the ankle-twisting danger and constant replacement cost vanishes. Other issues: our utility companies digging holes nearly daily--spray painting everything in sight. The street in front of my house is sprayed by AT&T about every month--maybe it has something to do with the redevelopment occurring...but it seems excessive. COM wires are hanging from poles everywhere and often bundled up and tied to trashy, crumbling poles. No one cares. I had to call the Public Utility Commission to get them to cut down some wires hanging in the street a few months back---after about a month of dealing with them all, only one of the three were removed. Comcast blames AT&T, AT&T blames Centerpoint, Centerpoint blames everyone but themselves. The little grass strip is part of the problem, but there are so many other elements that need attention.