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Welcome to HAIF and to the East End, Rene!

It's Heart Disease Awareness month, hence the red lighting.

A submerged freeway is still a barrier unless its covered over with at least park land... ( and that would then be a tunnel, which so many houstonians think is impossible) Regardless, just look at 59. Montrose is no more connected and at one with University Place just because you now get from one to the other via an aesthetically pleasing bridge instead of an underpass.

Even if 59 were fully submerged, you'd still have the 6 block long GRB acting as a huge barrier for 1/3 of the way.

Downtown and Easton shall never be one.

Implode GRB..Just kidding'.

Because it was at one point the east end of town.

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." - Yogi Berra

It was just a matter of time before developers, retailers, artists, and homebuyers took notice. I decided to stay/buy in the East End for this very reason....it's potential. I paid a hefty "price" for buying here (not going into details). IMO, development will continue to spread further east. Leeland is a great street, but I think Harrisburg has a greater chance for commercial/mixed-use. Polk has great potential. Canal/Navigation are wide streets, a magnet for retail/bars/restaurants. I often wondered why the huge empty land between the townhomes and Dodson Elementary isn't developed. If I only had the money.

The East End line is the Green Line now. Why is this tread title Brown Line?

Glad the weather cooperated. From the looks of it, a good turnout. I'm excited!

Finally found one of the renderings I was talking about w/ more info on the project... http://innerlooped.c...-0-coming-soon/

Awesome design. What's there now? Empty lot?

Trying to find some history here. Maybe HAIF can help?

My dad was telling me about back in the 60's he was in the Texas Medical Center, and how it was his wedding anniversary that day. He ran out of time so he had to stop by the nearest florist he could find. He was near the Medical Towers and drove randomly to find some flowers for his wife. 

He went down the street and found a store called Jones Floral located at 6618 South Main Street. It was in a long retail strip center.

Decades later, I'm trying to find information on this florist.  Does anyone have any memories, or stories of Jones Floral? What about pictures of the store front or shopping center?

Thanks in advance.

Given how starved the east end is for basic, non-dollar store retail, outside of Idylwood and the usual Eastwood clique I doubt there will be meaningful opposition. Another grocery store in proximity will hopefully put the pressure on Kroger to step up their game at the Polk/Cullen store. Gulfgate HEB could stand to clean its act up, too. Interesting how this story broke about the same time it appears the Foleys warehouse is up for sale. I had always imagined that would be the logical place for the next big retail center along 45 South.

This would be a good location for a Target. Perfect for the Eado, Eastwood, Houston Country Club, and Idylwood residents.

I agree; the traffic is awful. 1) Someone has finally taken notice the lack of retail in the area. 2) Never would have thought it would be Walmart.

eastern conference? yuck. Houston is an AFC/Southern/Western conference type town. I don't like this!!!

So, our soccer team is in the Eastern Conference and our basketball team in the Western Conference...

Hopefully 2011 and 2012 bring some nice residential infill to Houston's inner loop...

"Hines will probably be looking closely at “infill” locations such as “inside the Loop” in Houston, Baughn says. Finding sites where old, small commercial buildings can be torn down to render a prime apartment location will be a priority for Hines.

Expect to see Hines developing four-story apartments with parking garages in urban locations, as opposed to two-story garden apartments on far-flung suburban land."

http://culturemap.co...llow-the-craze/

"....old, small, commercial buildings". East of downtown? We'll see.

Beautiful shot, that lighting is great.

If I'm not mistaken, you're in the vacant lot used in the Chevy commercial to build a youth baseball diamond.

So, is there a baseball field there now? Couldn't find anything online or I could drive and see for myself.

Agreed, that would be real nice but they've gotta quit with 'eado'. That term just sounds nasty.

To my knowledge, residents of the east end were not asked about renaming our area. However, we were allowed to "vote" on a new color scheme/design for the Wayside & 45 underpass. The redo hasn't happened yet. Yawn

According to GEEMD's website, the underpass should be repainted by the end of the year. We'll see. The new design is definitely more attractive than what is there now.

A $125 million park and we get this next to it. "C'mon Man!"

New 13,000 square foot Scott Gertner bar coming to Pavilions in March! http://www.29-95.com...scott-gertner-0

Skybar was the place to be. Great addition to the DT nightlife.

Wonder what kind of "new fans" he wants to draw? ("Washington Ave types"?)

Why did they mention "known convicted felon"? Are there felons with secret convictions?

Hehe......

What other properties does he own?

guys, thanks for your suggestions, i will keep them in mind next time. greatly appreciated.

"The Fish" on Gray. They're open til 11pm on weekdays.

I'll have to try Piola some time. So far, Luigi's near HCC is my favorite.

Not to mention "Piola"...anyone been there yet?

I think it's awesome she chose Houston. She could have chose any "suburb" of Houston. The nieghorhood isn't that bad. It was, however, the only part of Southwest Houston I looked at when searching for a house. Can't wait to see the when the house is complete. But, there was a "backwards" house in Eastwood.

I didn't make it to the home tour this year; attended the East End Art Fest. A friend of mine volunteered and said it was great. My collegue's home on Walker is on the tour. It's great homeowners interact with visitors. Curious as to who decides which home gets on the tour.

Nice job! Glad to know you're OK. I got a dog two months ago after hearing about breakins in the area. Good work by HPD in catching this "thug", BTW.