mrfootball

Yeah, that I've spent too much time in the suburbs. Thanks for providing the substance to your "perspective".

Yet you're strangely compelled to troll the suburban boards daily to delight us with your enlightened perspective...

It was only a matter of time before 1960 and Champions went into the crapper. Don't blame the bus riders. Blame the white devils who all moved from 1960 to Glenlock Farms fleeing the bus riders.

Champions isn't in the crapper, and per capita crime rates in the FM 1960 area are likely much lower than where you live. I know, I lived there for 5 years.

If you've heard it for the last 20 years then that should tell you something.

I don't think anyone blamed her "stupidity" on Metro. I think part of the increase in unsavory characters was blamed on Metro's hauling them up and down FM 1960. I've personally witnessed these skanks at the bus stops passing joints, intoxicated, vomiting, etc. Prior to Metro's arrival, these social dependents really had no reason being out on FM 1960. There weren't nearly as many apartments and it was much harder for somebody on the dole to live and get around the area. Metro facilitates the movement of a population of people with a far higher incidence of criminal activity than the typical suburban taxpaying family demographic that dominates the area. Some will try to explain away this increase in crime as mere 'xenophobia', but realists will toss aside the 'feel-goodism' and tell it like it is.

I think it all depends upon what perspective you look at the issue. Are you married? Do you have children? A family to raise?

Somebody here apparently has an issue with these "paranoid" white suburban families. Brings it up all the time when trolling the suburban boards and is very judgemental in his usual diatribes. Some sort of deep-seated self-loathing from his childhood?

More on this deal:

http://www.cityfeet.com/News/NewsArticle.a...mp;PartnerPath=

"We are buying it to reposition it and bring it back in its original class A setting," Jenkins tells GlobeSt.com. "It's an infill setting that has not been available to the market for 20 years. Northwest Houston has just taken off. Demand for office space is extremely strong."

Hewlett-Packard last year sold the complex to Houston developer Don Hand. Brenda Pennington, principal of locally based Brenda Pennington Commercial Real Estate, who listed the property, says the seller "had too many other irons in the fire" to devote attention to the complex after seizing an unexpected opportunity to buy it. "It was not part of his annual projection so he decided to put it back on the market," she explains.

According to Pennington, the offering drew attention from investors and users. "There was great interest from large users, including educational groups, energy companies and technology companies," she says. "But there were also many investors who wanted upside potential."

Jenkins says the project offers the largest available block of contiguous class A office space in the Houston area. He says redesigning of the manufacturing building into office space will begin in four to six months. Macfarlan has contracted with locally based Transwestern to lease and manage the complex. According to Transwestern senior vice president Michelle Wogan, the existing office space will be ready for delivery in about 90 days.

Well the location does beat what lies along the Beltway between 249 and 290. That makes greater Tomball look like Manhattan.

That whole corridor is booming, too.

The question is, who wants to locate their company way out there? It's not exactly an easy place to get to unless all your employees live in the neighborhood.

It's actually quite common for corporations to build their corporate campuses in the suburbs where there's lots of housing and good schools. This location has excellent access to the big airport as well as corporate jet service at nearby Hooks and is located on a good side of town, making it easy to attract good workers and their families.

Obviously, this is a great location for a corporate campus. Compaq rose from nothing to become the #1 computer maker in the world before merging with HP.

if I were CEO, greater Tomball would be the last place I'd put my company.

I wouldn't worry about that happening, Midtown.

Greater Tomball? not quite.

Speaking of Tomball, anyone seen BJ Services new Technology Center campus? I was driving back from the Woodlands the other day and was impressed with their big new campus. It's got that modern german design look, like something you'd find near Munich.

BJ Services Technology Center corporate campus in Tomball

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They're still there, I believe when they merged with Compaq, they downsized the workforce and reduced the need for some of those buildings. Additionally, HP has some new $400 million data center located on the Vintage Park side of 249. Perhaps somebody else might be able to give us more info on what is planned for that area.

4 buildings that were originally part of the wooded HP Campus in northwest Harris County on 249 are going to be redeveloped into corporate office buildings as part of a $100M, 44.5 acre project headed up by Macfarlan Capital Partners and Buchanan Street Partners. It is being marketed as the largest block of office space available for a corporate campus in Houston.

The project, to be named the Centre at Cypress Creek will include:

3 interconnected 4-story office buildings and 1 computer manufacturing facility

630,000 sq ft of space

4 Parking Garages

Complete in 2008

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5020331.html

*This may have been the portion that UH was hoping to buy before having to postpone their plans for a NW Harris County campus.

They've really done a knockout job with that waterway.

Good ole Shatlanta.

Buckhead is nice.

I've noticed that Indian Springs seems to have a nice roll to it. Are there any areas that are more 'hilly' than the others?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/cyf...ws/5035352.html

Local chamber and city of Tomball leaders will join Santikos Theatres officials next week in the planting of the first tree on a property near the Texas 249 and Northpointe Boulevard intersection that is being transformed into a theater and retail development.

Richard Cieplechowicz, director of business development for Santikos Theatres and Santikos Developments, said the planting of this first tree sends a message to the community that the Silverado Theater is taking shape and will be open soon. He said the company will plant hundreds of trees and lush landscaping around the 200,000-square-foot Silverado Station complex.

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The 100,000-square-foot theater complex under construction will include a 5,000-seat multiplex theater with 19 screens and IMAX viewing, a restaurant, two bars and a gelato stand, which will feature 20 flavors of gelato made fresh daily. Opens Nov. 1st.

Neimans?

Did somebody say $2 pints?

Good stuff:

That other store is 10-15 minutes away and serves an entirely different market. I doubt they would close it.

Call the local HEB Public Affairs office:

Cyndy Garza-Robert

713-329-3920

The Coles Crossing HEB is their only store located between 249 and 290. They're going to need another one up near Fairfield. I don't even know where Fairfield people shop right now. I believe they have a future one planned to go in near 290 and the planned Grand Parkway. The other new HEB at Vintage Park will be great too. Right now, we have to drive all the way to the Louetta & Stuebner location. Now I'll have two stores about equidistant from where I live in Longwood.

No, it won't have any effect on that locaton.

Also, I just found out the new HEB at Coles Crossing will have a Cafe on the Run.

Is River Oaks chopped liver?

Is there a master listing of the individual Woodlands neighborhoods?

Once you start painting the brick, the homes start looking less cookie cutter, but make no mistake, many of the homes in neighborhoods like Frostwood, Fonn Villas, are the same as those in Memorial Forest, Wilchester, Nottingham and across the bayou in Briargrove Park. Similar plans. Me, I'm a big fan of those 1960's colonials and love the Memorial area. To say there's no "cookie cutter" is not entirely accurate.

You can do some amazing things with parking garages these days. Some, you can't even tell they're garages, from the street they look like buildings. Tech's "Garage Mahal" is a good example:

I counted 16 homes for sale on HAR (out of 360). I wouldn't call it an exodus. The foreclosure rate (1.49%) is no higher than Cinco Ranch.

I would imagine it's probably just competition from developments in the surrounding area.

Should be popular. They've got them in the Metroplex and Lubbock as well.

PS - I wish they'd put a Logan's here (I love those movie clips)

I'll see what I can find out. I don't know much about that area of Cypress but it may have something to do with the 290 expansion?