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so they are planning to turn memorial into a toll road with center turn lanes? ...thats what I never understood the resovoir is right there so why would they want to extend memorial. since if you did that there would be new construction from hwy 6 to barker cypress (eg gas stations, utotems, etc). all of this would kill the point of having the flood plain and destroy the ecosystem of the area. I could see them creating memorial into a toll road better than I could see them extending it to barkers. even though the toll road would be the stupidest thing imaginable.

is there a particular site which tells us what intersections these cameras are located?

hopefully it will be. what schools in katy are private anyway? (besides for the forementioned Catholic high school) is there a catholic elementary or junior high in katy? ...thats something that katy could think about- private schools. Imagine schools even better than KISD

how is low income housing a bad thing? honestly? if not at the area south of westpark, which is not all that nice now, then near mortan ranch. honestly, westheimer lakes and the developments near there are no where near the luxury of seven meadows. they will need to build a ronald mcdonald house too. the new tx childrens (when is that supposed to get started again?) will need accessible housing far closer than around 30 miles. also the new medical center in katy (memorial hermann and christus) will need overnight housing for its guests. a ronald mcdonald house would be a good thing and just think...we get to see barbara bush once a month. you know what katy really needs...not to be in a MUD district. I mean what the hell! other places...more overnight hotel/motel space (if the construction of the med centers warrants it). katy needs for fitness facilities...large ones and smaller ones for those that dont like huge atmosphere (like MAC). ...and house is la madelaine or visible changes upscale? lm is a glorified and exp cafetaria (no if, ands, or buts about it) and visible changes ranks like crap in my book. any place that cuts hair in a mall is low in my book. besides the cinco ranch spa is a better and likely more affordable place to go then visible. what else?

you know that the Knights of Columbus own the land which Yankee stadium sits and they gave the deed over to Rice University. Essentially George has to lease the land from no other than Houston's own Ivy League, Rice. I forget if they changed this or not. Rice may have sold the property back to the Yankees or to the City of New York. But Rice did for a long while own the land on which the stadium sits. makes you think that if a few cow-folk can wrangle up enough cash to buy such a prime piece of property, than anyone can be a Donald Trump or in Houston's case a Weingarten

I dont know if energy is a volatile market anymore. I mean it was in the 80s but I highly doubt the Saudi's have a huge supply of oil that theyre just willing to flush onto the market as it was back then. Oil prices will continue to rise despite best efforts to curb anything, but what apartments are you talking about in the corridor? there are exp ones off eldridge and memorial dr. there a few like those next to Village School and some next to St John Vianney that are questionable but for the most part they are nice to extremely nice. briar forest and wilcrest/kirkwood area is not located in the energy corridor. if you were talking those, that is westchase. but no, those do suck it up royally the worst we get in the energy corridor is either off tully or the nottingham townhome/apartment complex on memorial across from the krogers. ...but TMC and the energy sector go hand in hand at most times. you havent seen as large a buildup of the TMC since this recent boom of the energy sector. they were new dept added because of the bio-tech industry but the recent donations and funds are coming from a high tax basis for older homes and new contruction and from donations of large patrons. it of course comes from more but a good portion is from the last two. I would buy in the corridor or in northwest houston.

how good was the food at bistro 829?

established neighborhoods, great schools, community feeling and not to mention over $1 trillion in market cap of the companies which call this lovely area home anyone else agree that this is one of the best areas of houston?

I posted this in the 'going-up' section but got no replies... are there any updates on the old McDermont building site? the CVS and Wachovia are already finished and the baptist church is building more north. are there any other plans for the site?

a pavillion like the cynthia woods. or arent they supposed to build one in that $700 mil development proj in Memorial City? they need more greenery too and some low income housing near westpark. ...what else? restaurants- The Palm or something nice along those lines. because the fanciest restaurant out in katy is probably johnny carino's and thats like saying the olive garden is fancy more landry's restaurants (a more accessible landrys, etc) a town center like facility cant think of anything more right now...

I was wondering if anyone knew how good of a roofing contractor atlas universal is...

have there been any updates on the new development at the old hudson energy complex off eldridge (801 eldridge). transwestern is dividing up the site. CVS and Wachovia have been built and the new church is starting construction. does anyone know about what else is going to be housed on the property? I looked on hcad and it looks like CVS owns quite a portion of Transwestern's property there (1.5 mil sq ft). didnt know if this was mix up. if anyone knows anything more it would be greatly appreciated. thanks

yea but no. the luxury apartments and townhomes start before the neighborhoods at the end of memorial dr. they are a little before and after eldridge. the rest of memorial after exxon and global sante fe are stately homes. I dont want an apartment complex going up at the end of my neighborhood (maybe a surgical hospital or like a private school but not an apartment complex). they can make it into a gated residential community (kind of like the new terraces on memorial next to briar hills). the lowest ratios of students per family are located in the area I am talking about (0.0 to a high of .16). wow, that is disgusting. wolfe needs to go. all the families in the area are just sending their kids to private schools now anyway. what else can be housed in the 35 acres???

apartments? eww. this is memorial, not westheimer.

what is the point on keeping it in the katy isd area? the school offers nothing to the surrounding area seeing how most are in the over 55 demographic (kids in college and such). the school would be better situated as a private high school or to be torn down and have a hospital in its place (methodist has no presence in the west houston area). it should be kept if they extend memorial to kingsland but when is that going to happen? hasnt it been on the books since buffalo bayou was supposed to be turned into the next 'riverwalk?' ...all I am saying is that wolfe sits on too large an area (over 35 acres) just to be an elementary school. what are some ideas for the use of such land?

two more upscale dept stores. lets hope what theyll be... mine- Nordstrom, Bloomingdales

it wasnt that long ago that it was katy elementary. I love how kisd still keeps the school from the good ol' days of segregation on the books. as I last recall, it was a storage facility on the other side of katy high school. I believe there are plans for a new elementary school to be built on seven meadows parkway. next to the community center and pool area of the neighborhood. is this the site for the school talked about in the bond proposal? elementary school could be placed on the acreage katy isd owns at baker and kingsland. its bordered by green trails and windsor park lakes and estates. seeing how the nearest elementary for those kids to go to is nottingham. likely it will be given to a hospital to hold or for build out. ...wolfe needs to be shut down...

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the only people that can build high rise condoes in houston are interfin and randall davis what other ones have ever worked? redstone- no orion- no shamrock- no monaco- no 2727 (address?) kirby- hopefully not but most likely not goin to get built the huntingdon and the houstonian are the only high rises I know of (in this certain price range) that have ever been able to muster any sales

but when will that be? theyve been talking about it for how long?

more like great restaurants eg grisby grill, pasta lomontes, lupe tortillas, paddington station (Im very distraught over that), that bar, and roadsters is the worst but still has good food

yea but parents dont want to bus their kids 15 min to school when stratford is 5 min down the road, and stratford is just as good as Taylor

yea exactly but for the memorial housing boom to take over in the west area of 77079 they need to rezone that area to sbisd. because no mom likes busing their kids to school (even if it is kisd) the area is majorly undervalued because no one has ever come in to reappraise and likely because of the kisd school factor. people who live in the area like it that way but people who want to sell hate it.

98 was a bigger boom in what? that unemployment rates were the lowest or that houston economy did the best? I still base houston economy primarily on the price of oil. there has never been as much construction as there is now. hopefully we can retain this boom instead of squandering it.

there was no recession in Houston in 2001-2003. I doubt that the enron debacle even made a dent in our unemployment rates. Yet, Houston has been in a recession since 1985 up until about this past year. the housing market in Houston and the US go up and down with the price of oil. Houston is just the influx of the US. thats why in 1981 3000 sq ft houses cost $375-400k (around $1.3 mil in todays standards) but in 1985 the price had dropped to about $80k. Houston's economy now because of the bio-tech industry does not rely totally on the price of oil, but have you noticed lately there has been a lot of new construction? whereas about 2-5 yrs ago it wasnt even heard of. makes you think. but at least we're getting a taste of the housing boom these days.