MidtownCoog

740AM reported this morning the Midtown Civic Association is fighting this move.

The Men's Club and Rick's are in a different category all together.

And who wants either in their hood?

Well, the Venture Inn and Meat Rack have been raided by the Vice Sqad in the past.

I'm struck by how similar this thread is to this one, yet with much different reaction....

Hard to compare an airport with a vile disease swapping business that violates the law. Then again, maybe glory hole mazes are legal.

Either way, you are correct; the SOBs were there first.

Club Vision on Chenevert bills itself as a S&M bar, but its pretty tame if you ask me.

Marfreless is for dates.

That's all. Nothing more, nothing less. Not a sex club.

The Meat Rack and Club Houston should be shut down. They do a good job of keeping out the cops. Check out the entrance to Club Houston. One way in with cameras, one way out.

And the Meat Rack is pretty much a walking glory hole maze.

Nice. No wonder STDs are rampant in the "community".

And don't forget about Club Houston.

That place creeps me out...

Why would you since there is free programing within the Houston area?

Becuase music is music, be it on FM or Satellite, but cable offers additional broadcasting that broadcast TV cannot.

What about the Meat Rack and Venture In?

The Meat Rack may (not sure) have gone out of business, but it was pretty damn freaky.

It was at Tuam and San Jacinto.

Speaking of electronic billboards, the hotly contested ones are starting to show up in Houston's Theatre District.

It had been so long, I almost forgot they were going to do this. This could be its own thread.

Theater District lights up the night

Electronic signs that sparked fight have been set up

By RON NISSIMOV

Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

City officials recently put up three electronic billboards in the downtown Theater District, four years after City Council approved the installations.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/m...politan/2899793

We're the ones slamming them for trying to be "world class."

Houstonians are offended that it didn't get built in Houston first.

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Not this native! We have enough billboards in Houston that we are tyring to sunset.

Why start the next generation of blight?

All listening to the station formerly known as 101 KLOL ;-)

Hopefully AM/FM will wake up, becuase the thought of paying to listen to the radio is ludicrous.

No, Dallas is just sensitive, that's all.

satellite radio

are you for real?

Another Mexicanization.

K-ARTS, KLOL, What's next?

Ch 11?

Well, I don't see Houston comparing itself to anyone city like Big D does.

Houston is Houston.

Dallas is everything from Weatherford to Temple, Sherman to Ennis, with a twist of NYC for flare!

Why didn't you just move to the nicer part of midtown

Young and dumb, that's why. Just trying to do our part as reurbanization pioneers.

We live 15 miles from downtown in Fall Creek.

But I have been using the MidtownCoog handle for years now, and it seems silly to change that now.

Who is they?

The New York times back in 1995.

2112,

That's the East End and Fulton Avenue you describe, not Midtown.

In Midtown, you learn to get used to empty discarded packs of Cool cigarettes, broken Old English 40 oz., Twinkie wrappers, chicken bones, syringes, male prostitues, and used condoms.

You think I am joking, but it's the honest truth. Those who drive home and shut the garage door behind them don't see the reality.

Those are the reasons I left Midtown. Not that it's a bad place, but I did my duty of five years to make it better. Now it's someone else's turn.

Viva la Virgin de Guadalupe!

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Wow, 30 years? We were originally told it was over in 08.

Gotta wonder why we need a 30 year TIRZ.

From their Web site: http://www.houstonmidtown.com/midtown.cfm?a=cms,c,48,3

Our current projects include:

Midtown Park

Decorative Street Lighting

Enhanced pedestrian pathways

Streetscapes

Capital Improvement Program

Houston Technology Center

We even paid a volunatry $100 annual improvement tax on two occasions. No idea where that money went.

I think the TIRZ expires in 2008.

The lamp posts and benches are provided by the Midtown TIRZ. They also worked with Metro on some of the bus stops.

But other than that, not much else.

We were in constant contact with Charles LeBlane and the Midtown RA. The "good side" of the tracks got most of the attention, and we had to fight hard for those lamp posts and benches on Jackson and Chenevert.

Amazing they use the TIRZ to build streets? Talk about fuzzy logic.

http://www.uptown-houston.com/about/organization/tirz.html

Given its proximity to Herman Park, I say no.

It seems to be evolving organically, while still perserving some of the neighborhood charm off Benz, etc.