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I've never understood the obsession with HEB, it has ok prices (none of the stores beat the sales at any other with their regular prices, and that's how I shop) but that is generally outweighed by the annoying layout of every store. Anyway, if you want an HEB let's get it actually IN the Heights. Walgreens on 20th/Yale is building a new stand-alone across the street, and that Kroger sucks. So tear that whole thing down and put the HEB there.
I remember when there was an HEB store IN THE HEIGHTS. And what happened? People didn't shop there so HEB tore it down and someone built (another) bank with a reserved parking space for each and every one of its customers.
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Wal-Mart will probably end up like Auchan and many other failed mega stores.
Unfortunately, I'll never be able to say that you've been proven wrong, because Walmart will be a going concern long after both of us have passed on, so the question will not technically be settled.
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To bring a little levity to this thread, here's Shirley Q Liquor telling about problems on her trip to K-mark. She closes by saying next week she's going to Walmark. And before anyone jumps all over me and says this is racist or whatever, it's a well known comedy sketch and it is not racist.
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Looks like the attachment didn't work in my first post, so here it is the currently proposed Walmart center layout again in jpg format.
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Because the other Walmart thread has become a debate between a handful of bloggers calling one another's comments "crap", I've decided to start a new thread that will focus on information regarding the proposed Walmart shopping center on Yale. The posts in this thread should deal with information about the plans for the center, such as timing, what stores will be there, property layouts, etc.
If you want to debate whether or not there should be a Walmart on Yale, please post those comments in a different thread. Whether or not you want the Walmart, or if you don't care one way or another, you can post any information you have about said Walmart shopping center here. Please do not add editorial comments about how you think Walmart treats its workers, or about what Walmart may or may not do for property values in the area, etc. -- let's try to keep this thread
I'll start by re-posting the plan and a link to the Chron article about the Walmart.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7090711.html
Thanks in advance for keeping this post a non-confrontational, non-editorial, non-opinionated news source for the plans for that development.
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But I am curious if the Walmart supporters think that Walmart is the only option? Are you just being so adamant because you don't like it when people have contrary opinions? For example, if this thread wasn't about Walmart, but rather was titled "What would you like to see if you could choose anything for development on this parcel?" What if Walmart were never mentioned and you were starting with a clean slate? Would Walmart be the 1st thing that would come to mind for you?
Actually, when they were clearing the lot where Target is on Sawyer, I was hoping it was a Walmart going in there.
By the way, I found this on Walmart's web site: "Supercenters average 185000 square feet and employ about 350 or more associates."
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The hell we aren't! Well, at least for some things. Probably not meat and produce. Some of us are coupon clippers getting by on one income while moms take care of babies.
I agree. I will be shopping at the Walmart if they build it. I do admit I would rather have had an HEB there, but I don't make those decisions. And while I respect the right of the anti-Walmart folks to protest, I really think it's more NIMBY syndrome than anti-Walmart syndrome. I think truth be told, most of them would probably shop at a Walmart if they were near one (i.e. they had driven from the Heights out at Katy Mills Mall and realized they needed laundry detergent, animal crackers, hot-dog buns, a six-pack of Hanes briefs, and lightbulbs so they stop at the Walmart before heading back to town) . Others have probably not been in a Walmart Supercenter to see just how much variety they have and how much lower the prices are than Kroger. (Maybe there will be some price-pressure on Kroger as a result)
And with regard to the comments about "we already have Target and don't need Walmart" -- I personally am not a fan of Target. I think Target has the potential to draw the same demographic that the anti-Walmart folks point to as a Walmart "problem". Target definitely has higher prices than Walmart. And something about the smell of the Target "snack bar" really makes me sick when I walk in.
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Which neighborhood association claims jurisdiction over this parcel?
Apparently the HHA if you believe the title of this thread.
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You know, this is almost as bad as Starbucks trying to put in a coffee shop at 19th and Heights. Wonder if the neighborhood association will have as much luck defeating Walmart.
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that chic night club you mentioned is named Dirt.
HAHAHAHAHA. How appropriate.
I was just looking at the HCAD maps of the area and I see that the property just north of the tracks between Heights and Yale where the "Son's of Hermann" (yes, they actually had an apostrophe on the sign making "sons" possessive) used to be is referred to as "Lofts on Heights Boulevard". Has this been mentioned here before? I thought that was going to be some retail place.
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From the plans, it looks like that upscale apartment complex just south of the bayou between Heights and Yale is going to go away and be replaced with retail or something. (and maybe that chic nightclub that fronts Yale, too)
And now looking closer (you can right-click and zoom in), I see there will be not one, but TWO banks!
Personally, I don't mind there being a Walmart (call me crazy), but the last thing we need in or near the Heights is another f-ing bank!
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Found this on chron.com
Here's the followup story on chron.com
http://www.chron.com...ss/7090711.html
The most interesting quote being:
Another grocer had been eyeing the tract.
H-E-B said it recently made an offer on the Ainbinder parcel but was later informed that a counteroffer from Wal-Mart Stores was accepted, spokeswoman Cyndy Garza-Roberts said.
"We will continue to look for sites to bring an H-E-B to the Heights," she said.
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If a Wal-Mart does go in on Yale, my only concern is the traffic. I frequently use Yale to avoid the possibility of a train on Heights Blvd.
Well, the people that knowingly moved in next to railroad tracks that have been there since before they were born were successful in getting the train horns turned off -- maybe they can make the train go away completely and then this won't be a factor!
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The typical suburban Wal-Mart Supercenter requires 20 to 25 acres for the store, parking, drainage and stormwater retention, landscaping, and loading docks. That's part of why I'm skeptical about this rumor, is that inner loop real estate is just too fragmented and expensive to accommodate that kind of footprint for a store that caters to the lower end of the market.
Maybe they could do it like the Wal-mart and Sam's Club in downtown Honolulu -- Full-sized Wal-mart on the first floor, Full-sized Sam's club on the 2nd floor and an attached parking garage about 3 floors as I recall. I think the whole thing would fit on that lot.
Yes, from Google Earth measurements, the lot for the Honolulu Super Walmart / Sams Club is about 860ft x 820ft and the lot on Yale is about 900ft x 1000ft (if we're talking about the one where the old steel/iron works was on the west side of Yale).
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I heard that huge child care facility on Heights and...7th?...is moving in there. I dont have kids, but heard from a parent. I dont know the name of the kid care but it takes up like 3 houses just south of Donovan Park.
This looks to be correct, from my research:
(Once Upon A Tine Inc*, Esperanza School*)
639 Heights Blvd Houston, TX 77007-2523
Contact NameTitleGender ALEXANDRA COUVARAS Owner F
HCAD INFO FOR 1100 ROY ST:
Owner Name &
Mailing Address: ARGOS 1956 PROPERTIES LLC
% ALEXANDRA COUVARAS
3350 MMUE RD APT 2104
HOUSTON TX 77056
Legal Description: LTS 1 THRU 10 BLK 65 & ADJ ALLEYWAY
(PRORATED 3-12-10)
BRUNNER
Property Address: 1100 ROY ST
HOUSTON TX 77007
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Chicago Pizza (takeout) for the deep dish pizza (Where else can you get a pizza with 5 toppings that weighs about 10 pounds for $16.95?)
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Absolutely AWFUL in 77008. Missing mail, many missing packages, almost missed 2 weddings b/c they lost 3 invitations, other people's mail in our mailbox, late delivery, no delivery (with the amount of junk mail we get, not getting anything for a day is VERY strange), etc.
Filed a complaint a few months back... service got better for a time, then got bad again. I don't trust them at all. Up until about a year and a half ago it was excellent - our mailman was prompt, friendly, and never misdelivered a single letter. Then he got transferred, and its stunk ever since. I've counted 3, 4, maybe 5 different delivery folks since then. High turnover + poor service = bad news.
I agree 100% -- we must be on the same delivery route! I am certain that there are days the mailman isn't coming at all. If I receive no mail one day, the next day the box is stuffed full. I have been planning to do a little "test" where I'll put an outgoing postcard in the mailbox each morning and put the flag up to see if they come by to pick it up.
But at least they've gotten better about vacation holds. More than once I had come home from vacation to a mailbox stuffed full of mail despite my vacation hold. I decided the next time that I'd place a vacation hold and then simply remove the mailbox so they'd have no place to put the mail. Sure enough, when I got back and went to the post office to pick up the mail, there was a big note scrawled across the top envelope that said "No Mailbox!" so I knew they tried to deliver and probably would have kept right on delivering if they could have.
This thread brings back memories of hilarious Seinfeld episodes dealing with mail delivery.
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Have there been any mainstream media stories about this issue and the potential consequences?