The Great Hizzy!

Part of the problem is that people have become way too comfortable in just saying Southwest Houston, when they need to be more specific. Is it Fondren Southwest? Sharpstown? Meyerland? Where? That alone would give people a better feel for the trouble spots and it might heighten awareness on what problems are specific to those areas.

That was going to be my question as well.

Good lord... calm down. I can understand skepticism in most cases but in this... I mean, jeez. Calm down.

LOL! Ignorance really is bliss, I guess.

I have to admit, yesterday was a nice surprise. The scumbag weather people made it sound like Sunday was going to be like last Thursday. Those guys are idiots... and they probably smell, too.

Just a thought, but if M Bar was doing well enough and the owners felt passionate enough about it, wouldn't they consider finding another location DT? There are a couple of available parcels, I'm sure.

I generally liked Phoenix during my visits there but I wouldn't go there expecting touristy type things, unless you enjoy slipping off the beaten track to scale one of the distant mesas that surround the city. Sunsets in the valley are beautiful, especially during summer, when the desert haze kicks up into the air and gives the sky a deep, red tint. Unless you like golf, however, there aren't that many exciting things to do. Scottsdale is probably where you're likely to have the most fun, although I think the core of Tempe has a cool little "urban" district that's walkable and fairly lively on weekends (like Rice Village, for comparison). Downtown PHX, unfortunately, has about as much life, particularly on weekends, as downtown Waco. Ho hum.

^^ Exactly.

You know, the building designs do remind you of the architecture in the Westchase District, particular around BMC and so forth. Looks like Dallas will have a more happening district once everything is in place.

LOL! You're wrong for that, West Texan. LOL!!

It was directed at the people who are trying to tell you that what you observe here and there isn't true. They're funny people. Then when the evidence contradicts (like 2112's list and the accompanying photos), the argument changes. It's funny and typical.

Who you gonna believe? Your lying eyes or...

Well, at least they chose a nice photo for the article's lead.

Well, it would be prudent if they suspected that something viral or chemical was in play. Although, I agree, it sounds like a potential mess traffic wise.

Wow, what a cool looking mod. And it's in a neighborhood I like (minus the apartment complexes along Broadway). Can't believe I missed a month's worth of this thread.

The Med Center overhead is especially interesting, given the amount of infill construction taking place or scheduled to take place in the near future.

Is it me or is the warehouse district/Old Chinatown areas seeing more infill construction than Midtown? Other than a couple of townhomes on the eastern edge of Midtown and the Edge, I'm not seeing much of anything. On the other hand, just driving along the elevated 59 near the GRB and looking east, you can see new construction on several blocks, including some warehouse to loft conversions. Am I off?

What a great and unique collection of pics, Montrose. Very good work.

Yeah, Bill does some good things but there are some just general quality of life/social asthetics issues that he seems to just blow off or is oblivious to. For example, like the idea of instituting a weekend charge on meters downtown at a time when the city's trying to build off of momentum from downtown revitalization. Seems bassackwards to me. Give people more incentive to come downtown (since, in Houston, that means driving more than likely). Don't make it more of a turnoff. We'll see, though. Many felt like Jordy had become a bit too comfortable in the positon anyway.

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...tml?jst=b_ln_hl I don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, as I didn't see it, but if so, please merge/delete as appropriate.

Yeah, Tierwestah, I think you gave a pretty solid evaluation based on my own experiences, although I tend to agree with the Dallas posters who will tell you that better hints of Dallas proper's nightlife can be found in neighborhoodish areas like Lower Greenville and the McKinney Avene corridor (for a visual, just think the Montrose area). And I hate entering Dallas from I-45. But even more, I hate exiting it in the southern sector south of Illinois Avenue. Lots of bleak and depressing areas, but then you drive a bit further east or west and you find sanctuary. True, some pretty moderate income neighborhoods but even they give you a feel of "life". Not so for the area immediately around the Schepps Freeway (is it still called that?) out to about Bonnie View Road going west and Buckner Blvd. going east. There aer some smaller lakes and the Trinity River sneaks through the southern end in this area but again, it has a very rural quality to it so you have to sort of change your mindset in order to appreciate the geography. I absolutely love the Lakewood, White Rock Lake, Uptown and Park Cities areas (fine, fine, I'm a bit of snob--sue me). Nice diversity of architecture, some well-kept and well designed strip centers (relative to some of what we see here in Houston, though not all) and the vegetation is well integrated into the neighborhoods. As for the suburbs, I generally onhly go as far north as Park Blvd in Plano, as I tend to not really like the landscape of the areas north of there. Kind of vacant and uninspired, what with the flatter land and severe lack of trees. That's just me, though. The areas of Big D that I don't think get as much talk as they should are the Joe Pool Lake and Mountain Creek Lake areas. Granted, areas west of there in Grand Prairie are entirely unspectacular, but the lakes themselves and their immediate surroundings are nice. Anyway, I generally agree with Tierwestah on his views of Dallas with the exception of some minor points that you probably wouldn't get anyway unless you visited Dallas more routinely. It's really nice when you have solid, rational and fair conversations about other cities, even if sometimes it includes some negatives. No city is even close to perfect, not Houston, not Dallas, New York Chicago or Seattle.

LOL @ Frogger. Pickup trucks hit harder than taxi cabs, though.

If Jersey is taking over Downtown and Midtown, then Kansas has Uptown all to themselves. Even at eleven o'clock last night, traffic was heavy and all kinds of Wildcat fans were trying to cross Westheimer at some very interesting (and illegal) crossing points. LOL! It's always a fun time to have a good bowl matchup in town. I remember when Oklahoma State played here some years ago (the first bowl game at Reliant, I believe) and the Cowboys brought over 20,000 fans. The Loop absolutely confounded and astounded them as they tried to loop through the Galleria and points west. I hope it turns out to be a good game this year.

Funny, succinct and accurate.

Could the greater Clear Lake area be adopting some of the highrise characteristics of the city of Houston proper, what with the earliest ones coming in scattered formation and eventually yielding a cluster of buildings in multiple areas--north Clear Lake, Kemah, Seabrook, etc?