RedScare
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Walmart rarely does store specific radio advertising. I had never heard one until the Heights Walmart ads.
Radio ads are expensive. If sales were good at the Heights location, Walmart would not invest in the advertising. They would just do their usual print fliers. There is no company in the world that is more cost conscious that Walmart. They are cost conscious to a fault. It is not at all a stretch to conclude that the ad campaign has been prompted by poor sales.
Heh heh. Want to know how I know that you just made this entire post up? Two reasons. One, Walmart is currently running a store specific ad campaign. They do it for a lot of different stores. Two, radio ads are NOT expensive, especially for the #1 largest corporation in the world. You made up this entire post to make it sound like you know something, when in reality, you know nothing...and guessed wrong.
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Why would you deduce that? Advertising means you sales aren't panning out? I'm pretty sure they were going to run an ad campaign no matter what.
He is desperate for Walmart not to do well. His entire being is dependent upon this single big box store failing, so that he can believe that the Heights is somehow different than everywhere else. Even if it is successful, he will claim it isn't, lest his raison d'être be extinguished.
He is in a very precarious position.
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Or, maybe they understand marketing. They certainly know more about it than you do.
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Uninformed about specific clauses perhaps. As for the purpose of the 380, and whether I agree with that purpose, I am well informed, and approve of it. Just because you are upset that I do not agree with your pettiness regarding the 380, doesn't mean I am ignorant of it.
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Ahh, here we go. Because I do not agree with your lame hatred of Walmart, it must be because I am ignorant, and because I don't like enlightened people like yourselves. And, of course, Leonard must go with the "lawyers suck" meme. Knock yourselves out. The Walmart stays, the 380 stays, and you two are the only readers of the RUDE website, but I'm the ignorant one? Right.
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You really haven't been debating me. I don't care. I am fine with the City executing 380s with developers. I didn't read it because no one paid me to read it. And now you are mad that I didn't care enough to read a document that I do not care about? Priceless!
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Aww, Leonard is getting frustrated that no one agrees with him, so he is taking pot shots at me.
Trust me, Leonard, I've been blasted by far better than you, and over far more important things than a 380 agreement. To answer your question, I have read only part of the 380, because I have no qualms with it. Why waste my time reading something that I no no problem with?
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Leonard, you just keep getting worse and worse. You keep on telling yourself that stuff, and s3mh will keep on agreeing with you...but not many others. You've been beating that drum for a year, and no one has come over to your side that wasn't already a Walmart hater. The problem is, your Walmart hate keeps showing through, so no one believes your 380s, or your caliper inches, or your wheelchair ramps. You are simply a Walmart hater, and Walmart is already open.
See ya over on aisle 3!
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But you don't get to just decide on what is good and what isn't. Protesting something that is perfectly within its rights isn't going to get you anywhere. What you want is zoning, which has been shot down everytime it has been brought up. I know you think it is important to have your idealistic version of development, (which I mostly agree would be nice), but where you lose me is where you try to stop certain developments after the fact. If there had been a group for the past 7 years pushing for some sort of mixed use development in the walmart location, and they have assited in sourcing/oraganizing a 380 style agreement for a particular type of business in that location, I could understand being upset with ainbinder for building this out for Walmart. However nobody said anything really until ainbinder announced it would be a walmart.
Why not find the next developable parcels of land that you think are at risk of becoming strip centers, and try to create something to make it benificial to the developer to build your idealistic development? Proactive vs Reactive. That would be something I bet more people would be supportive of.
Even worse, they applauded the exact same development with Target as an anchor, while complaining about Walmart.
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A grassy field is better than a Walmart if that means that something better will be developed. If you look around Houston inside the loop, something better is being developed almost everywhere you look. West Ave, Post Oak at W. Gray, Regent Square, the Mix midtown, Kirby Grove, River Oaks District, Sage Hotel, and 2801 Weslayan. On every lot, you could put up a strip mall and say that it was better than what was there before (grassy field, run down garden style apartments, etc.). But if the developers went for the quick money and put in more strip malls and big box stores, development inside the loop would be crap compared to what is actually going in.
Virtually every development that you listed is not better for me...and for most of my neighbors. I do not need luxury midrise apartments, nor overpriced womens clothing. It likely is not better for you either, but you won't admit it. That's OK. I know that you go to Walmart in the middle of the night to pick up stuff you need, whether you admit it to us or not.
The more I think about it, those were some really hideous examples to attempt to outdo a Walmart. Maybe an HEB or a Home Depot, but overpriced clothing and jewelry? Come on!
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Actually, reading the posts, everyone except for you and s3mh does appear to be happy.
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Walmart was the one with the scheme to get Parker to fork over the coin to make it happen.
Lie.
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Walmart was the one with the scheme to get Parker to fork over the coin to make it happen.
The logic that Walmart made Koehler better and coincidentally other streets are better for other reasons escapes me. There are a lot of specific few blocks that have had older homes razed and townhouses built inside the loop since the Walmart was built. It's just what's happening inside the loop.
Liar.
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Absolutely! In fact, lock the door...please!
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Once they landscape the McDonald's, the ambiance will sell the remaining units.
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Although I am not at all certain that any of what you wrote matters in the grand scheme of things, kudos to you for coming up with what appears to be a differentiation of Conroe's much better daytime population gain. Of course, I don't understand the slam on Conroe for having "energy sector jobs". Don't you engage in daily mental masturbation over a couple of buildings near the mall that house (or will soon) "energy sector" workers? Also, nearly all of the "Lake Community" is not actually in Conroe, and, oh, the Woodlands also has a "lake community". And, yes, Conroe has government workers, but the Woodlands has a mall, so that's almost the same. And, the Woodlands would be a town unto itself, at least until everyone found out that cities and towns are expensive, and the Woodlands decided it could simply mooch off of Montgomery County for the stuff it didn't want to pay for, like government jobs.
Oh well, let's not quibble. I hope I haven't ruined your chamber of commerce moment.
Oh, BTW, an analysis of traffic and commuting patterns would reveal that the Woodlands does indeed lose a lot of its population during the day. It simply also gets a lot of commuters coming into the town center as well. Check out the flyover every morning. So, there is still a lot of commuting, but it goes both directions. That may be a bit more efficient in some ways (using both sides of the freeway), but it also inhibits the development of mass transit to the area. Win some. Lose some.
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Check out Conroe. Even more impressive stats than the Woodlands. Yet, it never seems to get any credit for it.
Place name: Conroe city
State name: Texas
Total resident population: 53,270
Total workers working in place: 37,248 (Many more jobs than workers)
Total workers living in place: 24,778
Estimated daytime population: 65,740
Daytime population change due to commuting: 12,470
Percent daytime population change due to commuting: 23.4 (This is also an increase) -
I went to the railroad museum today,
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We talk a lot of smack on Dallas, but I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the members of the Dallas Fire Department for manning our fire houses this morning so that our firefighters could say goodbye to four of their own at Reliant Stadium. Also, thanks to firefighters from San Antonio, Fort Worth, Brenham and Galveston. But Dallas chartered two buses to come down to help.
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This makes no sense.
The top tax rate is around 35% and SE taxes phase out around 100k. How does "take home" get to 35%?
The allusion to capital improvements,etc... are all immediately recoverable for tax so it would reduce your taxable income immediately.
He is suggesting that his profit on $400,000 is 35%, or $130,000. Of course, the tax rate on $130,000 is not 39.6%. It is 25%.
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When I get time I'll try to split the topic into Walmart and non-Walmart. Maybe another topic just for the insult posts.
It won't work. Those who wish to blame Walmart for everything will continue to come back and post on the Walmart thread, prompting responses from others. Splitting it will only result in the same topic posted on two threads. This thread grew into what it is organically. You can't stop it without simply locking it. Better to just leave it alone. Leonard's question was more of a political statement than a request. I doubt he really wanted the post deleted. He just wanted to comment how far off topic it was, even for this thread.
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Where is the person who removes off topic/boring posts?
Be careful what you ask for. The Walmart topic ended months ago. Now, it is crying about 380s and bridges of death. If you demand that off topic posts get deleted you'll probably end up with a closed thread. Where would you complain about caliper inches then?
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Walmart Supercenter At 111 Yale St.
in The Heights
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I refer you back to post 3096.
I think you and Leonard may be losing it. All this drama over an already built Walmart and a nasty sycamore tree has you two getting more and more shrill. Perhaps you should go to a locally owned restaurant outside the Heights, order an alcoholic beverage, and relax. The Walmart will still be here when you get back.
Unfortunately, the sycamore will still be gone.