Timnwendy

Is there a car wash on 2234 west of 288? I'm hoping they will build one in the new developments there somewhere. We need something like a Bubbles on the west side of Pearland.

Chamo can you find anything on Shadowcreek Square? This is the development underway at Broadway and Kirby. I cant' find anyting on it.

Chamo, thanks for the link!

There's the key.

Ditto. I would have rescheduled the closing until later. It's amazing how fast they fix stuff when people do this.

You were more adventurous than I. I was called there for jury duty last month. At 8:45 am they dismissed the jury pool and told us to return at 1pm for selection. Instead of hanging around and exploring, I drove back to Pearland for 3.5 hours. Based on your report, I think next time I should check out the courthouses.

Some of my neighbors contacted the city's street dept and were able to get the timings changed at the traffic light at 518/Half Moon Bay. The waits for light changing is now shorter.

Yesterday I noticed work crews were spraying hydro-mulch (blue-green stuff) in the middle of the landscaped medians, where no grass had been sodded. Hopefully, this might jump-start the growth there. We really need that to happen, so the early-morning sprinklers there will stop wasting water!

Drove it again yesterday. 518 still dead-ends at the western connection of Windward Bay Drive. The entrance to Windward Bay is open there, and residents of SCR are rapidly discovering this route to 518.

The entrance to The Enclave at Southern Trails at 518 and Windward Bay is still not open. They have not even removed the curb there yet.

Today a new section of 518 was opened up west of Kingsley Drive. I explored it to see if it was open all the way to 521. It was not. 518 was blocked off at the westernmost entrance to SCR at Windward Bay Drive. It did look like they will open it up all the way to 521 soon.

Maybe consider contacting WeBuyUglyHouses ?

The developer has begun staining the fences along the streets. The stain color is a mocha/rust and looks fairly good (IMHO). You can see the early results on the fences along Southern Trails Drive, over by County Rd. 48.

The fence-staining project is completed. I think it looks pretty good. I'll try to post a picture of it later.

This following article was posted yesterday on the Pearland Journal website. I am still thinking about it, but it seems to me that if Blue Ridge adheres to its part of the agreement, then it seems at least a partial victory for the homeowners near the site. ~ Tim

City reaches Blue Ridge Landfill agreement

Updated: 05.20.09

The City of Pearland has reached a settlement agreement with Blue Ridge Landfill TX, L.P. regarding the City

It is our hope and plan to open the park in the Fall 2009.

Yeah...right Who are they kidding?

Whatever is going in there, I hope they build proper drainage, because IIRC that area floods bad during heavy rains.

Our Neighborhood Watch program has now deployed its first signs (see attached photo).

For the record, we have very low crime in ST/Enclave. We just want to keep it that way. Plus, it is much easier to get a NW program off the ground while an HOA is small, rather than later when it is large. That's why we organized now.

I agree. Progress definitely looks stalled.

I've got a quick question. We're far off from doing anything, but starting to think about a 2 story around 200k range.

I had a friend that had a David Weekley home in Sienna that he sold for 190 about a year and a half ago and it was a great 2 story house. Granite counters, upgraded kitchen, covered patio and plenty of other extras.

Looking in ST Enclave, we found Trophy homes that were in that range easy, but the Newmarks were way over our budget. Are the Weekley homes in ST proper closer to the Newmark homes, or are they a little more reasonable?

Weekley isn't building any more new homes in ST, but there are some coming back on the market now that are only 1 or 2 years old, like this one, which I believe are more reasonably priced.

Also: be very careful of signing a contract with Newmark or Trophy now, they announced last month that they were stopping operations in Texas sometime this year, and are actively looking for another builder to buy them out. To my mind, that's just too volatile a situation to risk doing a start up with them, or even buying an existing home, since they may not be around to do any warranty work later. To each their own on that.

The Pearland City Council has an agenda item on their meeting for this coming Monday 05/11/2009 to consult with their city attorney about the Blue Ridge Landfill litigation. You can read about it here:

http://www.groupbuilder.net/uploads/City_o...ncil_Agenda.pdf

These sessions are open to the public, if anyone wants to go. I thought some of you might be trying to get information on this.

That new light takes forever if you are turning left from Half Moon Bay into 518 East!

I think they take too long to turn left from 518 into Southern Trails Dr.

Yesterday, the traffic lights at Kingsley/518 and Southern Trails Dr/Half Moon Bay/518 were activated. I think the stretch of 518 between Kingsley and Almeda Rd is still not open, though. I will confirm that soon (unless one of you beats me to it here).

The landscaping of the medians is almost complete, but they still are not sodded. However, the sprinkler systems are now functioning, and coming on in the mornings. This is making most of the water run off into the streets. Looks like typical mistiming of work between the contractors.

There are now functioning streetlights throughout the Enclave, even on the far west edge, where the streets are empty. From a security standpoint, this is good - especially since the second entrance at Windward Bay and 518 is probably going to be opened in a few months.

Sketching reports continue about the status of Trophy and Newmark here. Trophy seems done, but some reports suggest Newmark is still building, even while they are on the market.

Nope, this must be for the work that is going on on the East side of 288 approaching the Beltway and the east bound service road. They are clearing trees and you can see them installing underground drainage along the Beltway service road. Sorry to let you down but any future Waterlights development is a private matter. It's tough right now for commercial real estate so don't be too anxious. Look at all the vacant retail space around the Shadow Creek area.

Yeah, I had noticed that construction on the east side. Your logic makes sense.

According to updates in the March 2009 City of Pearland Projects Report, this fire station is still on track to begin construction in the 4th quarter of 2009.

According to updates in the March 2009 Pearland City Projects Report, this water plant and tower were slated to go online this month.

The city of Pearland projects report for March, 2009 shows this entry on page 30. I am thinking that water and sewer contract is for the Waterlight district. If so, it is not slated to finish until Nov. 2009, and this might be what is holding up other construction there. Of course, I might be totally wrong.