RedScare

Leonard, why should Walmart pay $12.50 an hour, but Apple should only pay $8.25 (or even less in Houston)? Is it because you like Apple, but not Walmart? For that matter, why should Walmart pay $12.50 but not Target?

This is not surprising. s3mh contradicts himself every few pages. Sometimes he does so in the same post. But, scroll back about 4 to 5 pages, and you'll see him bragging about how great the city government in Washington DC is for putting a Walmart in their crappy poor neighborhoods.

Of course you don't get it. I expect nothing more of you.

Not only that, but Walmart's presence in s3mh's idyllic Skyland Town Center is only occurring due to overt threat's to block permits for the 4 Walmart's that the company actually wishes to build. http://dcist.com/2011/05/gray_to_walmart_build_five_stores_o.php Recall that s3mh railed against Mayor Parker for pushing through a 380 agreement that supposedly nobody wanted. Well, compare that with DC's threat to deny otherwise valid permits to Walmart if they do not build a store where the mayor wants them to. I am not at all surprised that s3mh trumpets this as "good governance".

Not true. HCTRA can take on projects in other counties that benefit Harris County. This was addressed in post #3 of the thread that you linked.

I didn't realize that Walmart built on the last available parcel for multifamily. That changes everything!!!

These "insurance" plans are almost always a ripoff. Consider the water and sewer cost on an annual basis is $144. Your water line from the meter to house is probably less than 50 feet and is PVC. You literally can dig it up and replace it yourself for less than $50. Sewer is slightly more expensive, but these pipes rarely break. I wouldn't get the coverage.

Yeah, looks plenty accessible to me. Just another overreaction by our favorite overreactor.

Don't forget the caliper inches. Can't forget the caliper inches.

It doesn't look so much like a recessed groove as it does an offset. There may be an offset on the other side that matches this one. The rendering in post #257 gives a better view of the offset. Look at the top of the building. It looks like one side goes inward, and the other overlaps it.

Gas. http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/pipeline-being-built-near-camp-strake/article_b5c80737-c3e0-5962-8ed4-0b6ed06faf91.html

That was for a pipeline that is being laid along that path.

Well, I stand corrected, then.

Ross, you are wrong. Walmart has its place...in low income minority neighborhoods, apparently. Oh, and isn't hanging AND drawing and quartering a bit of overkill, so to speak?

Seems to me that if traffic is as congested as you say, the traffic would already be moving slowly due to the congestion. A flashing caution light would have no effect on the traffic, and would be of little use to pedestrians crossing the street.

You seem to have left him speechless.

Oh, it gets even better! Suburbs! He uses Dallas suburban planning to shame us on inner city Houston! Dude, stop! My sides are splitting!

HaHa! Now, you're going to try to shame us that Dallas does better? Go look at all of the threads about Dallas' 30% downtown vacancy, empty Victory highrises, and empty ground floor retail that Dallas city planning forced developers to add to their projects. Then get back to us.

No amount of restating your point in different ways will make an intelligent statement out of your hypocritical stance. For me to debate you is to suggest that there may be merit to your posts. There is not. The fact remains that you are a hypocrite in your stance. The nicest thing that can be said is that you believe that SOME Walmarts have value...for poor Black people.

Well, Leonard, you just need to read s3mh's posts a little closer. After you do, he assures us we will wish the City had upped the ante $64 million or so, in order to get more retail and apartments.

I am confident that, for another $64 million, we could have gotten everything that DC got. Would that have made s3mh happy? What about Leonard? You never made much sense in your arguments. Now, you've gone full retard. Never go full retard.

Yeah, like I said, it was a steal at $6 million!

Our $6 million 380 agreement looks like an absolute bargain! It appears that mixed use and pedestrian friendliness is a bit more expensive than the elitists would have us believe.

True. Very true.