mrfootball

Shame on you people for wanting to live in a green, wooded forest away from the hustle and bustle of the city. A place where you can have a nice big yard and a friendly street. A nice, safe place to start a family and raise your kids. Good schools to educate those kids and active parents who wish to see them succeed. Shame on you for creating such a place where you can afford all of these things. You thought you could get away with it, but you didn't. A great and glorious city such as ours requires you to contribute. We have streets to fix in the Heights, afterall. The nerve of you people for expecting the same level of service you had before you became part of such a glorious and wonderful city. A city that took you (against your will) for the 'greater' good. A city that loves you (as displayed here by it's citizen's comments). Can you not feel the love, Kingwood? Can you not feel it?

i doubt anadarko is working on the "sister" tower, being as they've recently laid off 3000 employees.

This was back in 2003 when this information relayed to me by the project manager of the first tower. Things may have changed since then. Prior to the layoffs the company boasted about never ever having a layoff, even during the oil bust of the 1980's. The bulk of the recent layoffs (as I understand them) came from overlap created when Anadarko merged several companies. They're hiring again, so who knows?

The Waterway is coming along great though. Very impressive.

Oddly enough, If given the choice, I bet you'd have a hard time finding a Kingwood family that would forego their own schools for the option of attending one of those HISD schools that (as you stated) "blow yours out of the water"....

Did you really go to Kinkaid?

I hate to bring The Woodlands into this, BUT, campare the two. Kingwood was The Woodlands of the Estex Frwy. I nice suburban community with good schools and soccer moms. But you have to admit that Kingwood has changed. Why do you think The Woodlands is fighting so hard to stay out of Houston? It's probably because things that are important to The Woodlands are not important for the folks living in the inner city. Same as Kingwood. But I believe, IMO, that they are getting shafted on money. Also they now have METRO running up there. I don't see that as a positve...unless it was lightrail. But that's a whole nother subject.

As a disclaimer...I don't know a whole lot about the annexation of Kingwood or on monetary agreements. This is just how I see things...whether they be right or wrong.

Up through the 1980's and into the 1990's Kingwood was hotter than The Woodlands. The Woodlands was just a lonely backwater up near Conroe.

Fans of Alicia's will be excited to know that the popular NW Harris County restaurant is expanding. They're building a freestanding pad site that will triple their current space (off Cypress-Rosehill & 290). The new location will be located directly across the freeway.

If you're a fan of Lupe Tortilla's fajitas, this is the place for you. IMO they're just as good if not even a little better. Don't have a clue about the rest of their menu except for the enchiladas (which were nothing special)...the fajitas are the bomb, though.

Interesting case here. For one, it identifies one of the biggest road spammers in Northwest Harris County (RTM media). It also challenges the City of Houston's ability to enforce ordinances within its ETJ.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...ro/4988128.html

He said that a "friend" came to him with the idea. Imagine how that conversation went...

"Hey, there's a lot of nice homes going up near that lot of yours. Why don't you put a sign there that'll piss everyone off and get under people's skin?"

"Say you're gonna build a trailer park and call it the "best little trailer park in texas" and you can even name it after a famous whorehouse."

"That'll freak everyone out. They will give you money just to go away"

"Heck, they may even build you a new house."

IMO, you haven't a clue.

Translation = Because I know that RedScare grew up in this area, and lived here in the 80s when this phenomenon occurred, and because I know that he cold busted my white suburban racist myth and I have no response to it, I'll just call him a dumbass and hope no one calls me on it.

You "cold busted" nothing, you snarky dweeb. Only an idiot would imply that the oil bust of the 1980's is responsible for this carjacking.

I don't have to support any position. What you said was absolutely retarded and incorrect.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was always under the impression that the real estate bust of the mid 80s caused massive foreclosures in the area, allowing lower income families to purchase homes at a steeply discounted price.

My God, you're a dumbass.

And that's important, why? What are you trying to say? Come on mrfootball -- say what you mean.

He doesn't live in Cypress.

He lives in Meyerland.

I'm a UT and Tech alum, so I see it from two sides. At UT I was disgusted by how much money is wasted. At Tech, I was amazed at how far they could stretch the dollar. I fully support a total restructuring of the way Higher Education is financed in Texas. As it is now, it is completely provincial and very backwards-assed. The PUF and the HEF need to be put into one pot with no legal restraints on who gets funded. With tuition deregulation, scholarships have suffered as the available scholarship moneys are sucked up due to higher tuition costs. As you could imagine, this affects schools other than UT and A&M especially hard. Barring a full-on assault from the non-PUF schools or public outcry, I don't see much changing with the way PUF funds are alotted - especially with this Governor.

Aside from that, schools are just going to have to bootstrap it themselves. I see UH is about to embark on a capital campaign. Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance has set the goal for Tech's upcoming capital campaign at $1 Billion. They're wanting to grow the TTU endowment (which is presently valued at around $620M returning about 17%/year) and expand available scholarship money. Good timing as AT&T CEO, Ed Whitacre, just retired and has a couple of hundred million burning a hole in his pocket. Hance has also put forth a plan to grow Texas Tech's Lubbock campus to around 40,000 students by 2020 as well as expanding the Texas Tech University System. In the meantime, Tech added Angelo State University, a regional university with about 6,500 students along with it's relatively hefty endowment ($80M). ASU opted out of the Texas State System to join the TTU System during this legislative session and it appears Tech will add several more during the next session as there is talk of a major reshuffling.

The next legislative session will feature some major changes in Higher Education - so we'll see what happens.

http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?BRD...G=461&rfi=9

The proposed Mustang Ranch "Best Little Trailer Park in Texas" has been nixed.

blame the dumb hoochie-mamma who left her SUV running with her kid in it.

It is against state law to leave your vechicle running with a child in it.

As for the hoochi-mama...the article says nothing about leaving her motor running. She was leaving the dentist's office. Dr. Coker and a number of other dentists & orthodontists have their offices there. It's about 200 yds from the FM 1960 intersection (where the nearest bus stop is), 400 yds from the apartment complex in front of Greenwood Forest.

I will sure as hell blame Metro and all of the other social welfare organizations whose movement into the FM 1960 area brought about this sort of thing.

In an expansion that will triple the size of the hospital, Methodist Willowbrook will begin a $250 million construction project in August that will make it the largest medical facility in the Cy-Fair/Tomball market.

Complete with comprehensive cardiac services, a stroke center and a cancer center that will link with programs at the hospital's main campus in the Texas Medical Center, the expansion will make Methodist Willowbrook a regional medical center.

Between 600 and 700 positions will be created with the construction, according to Chief Financial Officer James Levermann.

"It will be like a new medical center," Levermann said. Since opening, the hospital has been at capacity and is usually on emergency room diversion status with area ambulance services due to high demand.

Read the rest here

Probably a Metro rider who got sick of riding the bus.

On another note: It'd be interesting to see how fast these lowlifes would leave that area if you took their bus service away. Crimes like these were non-existent in the FM 1960 area back before Metro came in and the apartment developers followed.

What's the domain?

The Texas Department of Transportation will launch a $2.1 million tree-planting project this month along Texas 249 from Beltway 8 to just south of Tomball. It is the agency's largest landscape project in the Houston region to date.

When it is over, 30,705 trees, including pines, oaks, elms, sycamores and some wax myrtle and yaupon, will line the highway between the mainlanes and frontage roads, said Dana Cote, landscape architect for TxDOT's Houston district. Crape myrtles will be planted along the borders to add a splash of color.

"With these projects we typically target roadways that are not scheduled for reconstruction anytime in the near future," Cote said. "And Texas 249 has so much greenspace that it was an ideal choice for this large project."

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Some of the areas suggested are great...others are duds. Pull comps of any sub you look at and look at the last year of activity. Example: Villagio- Originally built with 100'ish a sq.ft homes, now being built with $85 a square builders. Poor situation for the guys who bought first. And that one small gated sub in champions..dont remember the name...40% foreclosures.

Villaggio is in the "HP Corridor" and built-out years ago.

What gated sub had 40% foreclosures? Curious to know. Not the one off Champion Forest Drive?

If UH manages to open a campus in Northwest Harris County they'll have no problem with enrollment. Huge untapped market.

They should go ahead and rezone Greenwood Forest along with the aforementioned neighborhoods.

The Southern portion isn't growing as fast, but what they're doing is shifting over some areas zoned to the Southern portion as they relieve schools in the middle by shifting over enrollment to the new schools in the NW. When some of the kids from areas zoned to the KHS zone get rezoned to the new schools, then that will open up more room in the KHS feeder zone which will allow kids from overcrowded southern schools in areas like Woods of Wimbledon, Huntwick (KISD portion), Brandonwood, Edinburgh Estates, to feed over to Klein HS -- opening up more room at KFHS and the subsequent feeders. So rather than build new schools in an area that's not growing, they'll just begin shifting Westward.