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I never understood the purpose of annexing that far out.

Answer: Lee Brown was/is an idiot.

Any relation to the Lodge at Bayou Bend, formerly Rainbow Lodge on Memorial Dr.? I went there about 8 years ago, and it was high class dining in an old hunting lodge. The menu was American cuisine. You could order things like duck, quail, pheasant, turkey, veal, and steak. You had to wear a coat and tie to eat there. Recently, it became the Lodge at Memorial or Lodge at Bayou Bend. The Rainbow Lodge is now in the former location of La Tour D'Argent on T.C. Jester.

The Shirley's have for years run a popular business holding weddings, receptions and retreats at their property in Ponderosa Lakes. This will be a nice extension of that business.

Mom, there are large areas of Cypress with better demos than The Woodlands.

As for George Mitchell's vs. GGP's Woodlands...I think GGP's far exceeds Mitchell's, though Mitchell certainly deserves the credit for creating the wooded oasis. I love what they've (GGP) done with The Woodlands. As far as zoning regulations, Mom, The Woodlands sits in the same ETJ as Bridgeland.

If you've seen Bridgeland and you've seen Fairfield, you'll quickly notice the difference. With that said, Fairfield (like The Woodlands) initially built middle income homes far outside the metro area (at the time). As the community (and residents) have gotten older, they're building higher-end homes as residents move up to nicer, larger homes.

Finally, I think it's pretty early in the game for people to be making comparisons to a community that's 33+ years old. One community just opened this year, the other is nearly built out.

Puerto Rican education is really paying in dividends isn't it, that is some GREAT deductive reasoning.

Come on now T.

From somebody who proudly flies the Welsh flag, you should know the difference between the Puerto Rican and Czech flags.

This is going to be a nice revenue generator for the county.

Or the girl (Aaron Glenn's niece) who's boyfriend chopped her up and bbq'd her on his apartment patio.

My God that is stupid and pathetic.

They got into a fight over a ____ing pit bull? WTF?

Behaving like they live in a 3rd world country. What kind of parent would raise kids like this?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/cyf...ts/5085708.html

Should be a neat matchup. Some of the highest rated prospects in the nation facing off in Cy-Fair's McGuffie and Stratford's Luck.

McGuffie took his first carry to the house in last week's scrimmage vs. The Woodlands

7pm at Tully Stadium

TV - FSN Southwest

Are the Villages of Cypress Mill and Villages of Cypress Lakes part of the same development? Same Developer?

It's so sad because this kid had a promising future.

How about this, Jeebus? Poor black kid, awarded 5-year full ride scholarship to a university and set to graduate early and enroll in college for the Spring semester, is blown away in a parking lot for looking at somebody the wrong way.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/spr...ws/5073383.html

I predict little ole Tomball ISD is going to explode with growth over the next decade and a half. Methinks their estimates are a bit too conservative.

This bill is absolute BS.

This stuff makes me sick on so many levels. What a waste.

I concur with CDeb & Cnote.

I grew up in NW Harris County, moved off to college at UT and Tech, had a lot of fun, got my degrees, moved back to Houston got a job, lived in Midtown for about 6 years, got married, had kids....at which time the suburbs looked like a welcome old friend.

You have different priorities at different stages of your life. During my single years I wanted to be downtown in ground zero where the action was, surrounded by other single young professionals.

Having grown up in NW Harris county, I consider it more or less my "hometown". I like the Memorial area as well. We looked at 40+ homes throughout the city from West U to Memorial to the Woodlands to Champions and finally decided on Longwood. We love it here. Of course we loved all of the above areas, but this was the ideal situation for us, with built-in babysitting nearby in Lakewood Forest. It also felt like home, and I found out later that there were a bunch of people from my HS, and other 1st generation FM 1960 kids now in their 30's, living in this area. Likewise, it seems like everyone from my wife's HS (Cy-Creek) all live in Fairfield. While some move away, the majority of people usually settle close to where they grew up. This is not a new phenomena, and you will see NW Harris County and outlying areas continue to boom with each new generation.

...BTW, I learned a new factoid yesterday. Northwest Harris County and Phoenix Arizona are the fastest growing areas in the United States right now.

It seems odd that it happened almost two months ago and they are just now releasing a story.

Agreed. Lazy ass media.

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Back on topic, these lakes are great, but instead of 3-4 small lakes, can we make one Large lake? I mean large enough to boat on. Are people really THAT into paddle boats? I guess I just miss being so close to a lake (Somerville and Conroe are a long haul). It could probably never happen that the state/county would put a couple-thousand acre reservoir anywhere near Cypress.

I don't think there are any plans to put any big resevoirs in anytime soon.

Towne Lake is going to have a big lake that will be navigable with boats and marinas and a waterfront entertainment area.

If you look at the master plan for Bridgeland, you'll see that the next lake in the next village to open will be 2-3 bigger than the biggest one they have now, and the one 'after' that will be several times the size of that one. I imagine that lake will have electric boats like they have in other waterfront comunities.

Aside from that there are water ski neighborhoods in/around Cypress like 'Cypress Hill'.

They're going to have to start policing these parks like they do Memorial Park, Hermann and others.

Around Cypress Creek (runs between Bridgeland and Blackhorse and CC Lakes) there are a lot of really nice trees. They've done a terrific job accentuating them. They've also sculpted the land throughout Bridgeland with lakes running throughout and a 'rolling' terrain. There are nice older live oaks and post oaks throughout but they've literally planted thousands of trees thus far. Upon the backdrop of the area running along the preserve it looks quite nice. They've created the template for how to develop that land. Even I, and I love the woods, like what they're doing out there. There's a different character to it that's equally as nice, active and outdoorsy, more wide-open. Good Chi.

Here's another shot from the other night:

Will the Fry Road Corridor really only have high-end developers though? It doesn't seem to be slowing down though.

I'm amazed to. That's the part of the market that's still going strong. The sub-prime credit crunch has little effect on people building $300K+ homes. Oil & Gas pays well and the overall economy in Houston is strong. Lots of people making lots of money. Lots of people moving up to bigger, nicer homes.

I think the area that they're saving (Longenbaugh Ranch) along 290 between Bridgeland and Fairfield will be a pretty significant development commercially as well as residentially. It's where the Grand Parkway & 290 intersect. It's a rather large parcel.

Here's a glimpse into the future with the new neighborhoods planned for that area and the number of homes expected:

CFISD District Growth Presentation (PowerPoint)

I never said Fry Rd was like an Edge City.

Go back and re-read my post. If you care to argue the finer points of it, I'll be happy to in a separate thread.

Fry Road/290 is not an edge city. It just a sprawl-cluster mess.

Once again, another dumb quote from you rambling on about an area you know very little about.

There are no billboards. No retail. No gas stations. Nothing but really nice neighbhorhoods, schools and golf courses on the Fry Rd. Corridor which stretches for miles South of 290 and will eventually reach up towards 529. There are no lights or stop signs either...It's like the autobahn.

Why are builders only building so high-end on that side of Fry Road? Around FM 529, it is cookie-cutter galore. Katy should try to get only high-end home builders around Seven Lakes, and the two other new high schools.

It's what the market demands for the 290 Corridor. There are large parcels to work with and the success of earlier developments (ie. Stone Gate, Copper Lakes, Canyon Lakes) along that side of 290 have proven the viability of the area. Further up 290, Blackhorse came in and built an awesome golf course, sculpting the land and accentuating the beautiful old oak trees in the area, providing a template for the newer communities that followed. Now Bridgeland is taking that further.

Driving down Fry Rd off 290, you'll be hard-pressed to find many homes below $200,000, most of them are in the $300-$500k range and there are thousands of new homes along that stretch. These are the homes that are zoned to Cy-Ranch.

As far as being an 'edge city', the whole of unincorporated NW Harris County is an edge city with numerous submarkets. It's a damn big edge city with over a million people. It's got great demographics and relatively low crime. If it were a city in and of itself it'd be one of the largest in Texas, bigger than Austin with the best income demographics of all of the major Texas cities.