J008
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Send them a message by voting Republican in 2012.
Then we'd have 2 walmarts and a sub par bridge
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Wow. It is laughable that they advertise you can get from the site to the SW Freeway or anywhere downtown in "5 minutes" (slide 3 on either link). The last time I even came close to that kind of speed/distance was a few hours before Ike hit, when there were ZERO cars on the road. Even going up Yale to 610 would be a challenge, unless there were no cars in front of you and you hit every green light (all 10 of them in the 3 mile stretch). And believe me, they are not timed so you can make every one (Koehler, I-10 East, 1-10 West, 6th, 11th, 14th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 610 East)
With the new lights at i-10, it is hopeless to go that way.
If you define downtown as Houston Ave. Then I think you could probably get from yale to houston on Center in 5 minutes (as long as walmart isnt open, and the yale st bridge still in tact).
SW freeway would almost impossible.
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Seriously. Lets assume the picture is correct.
1. The no trucks signs are posted at the threshold of this light. So by continuing they are obviously disregarding the sign.
2. Why would someone drive past heights to take a left on yale to take a left back to heights, take two more rights and then cross yale in an 18 wheeler? It is absurd.
3. He is also running a red light.
How are we supposed to know that he used the bridge? He very easily could have just taken a left and then a right onto Heights and come back around....While it looks bad, this is not proof that the truck crossed the bridge...just saying - you have been known to manipulate the truth too many times for me to believe you.
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City spends $6 million creates 300 jobs, $20k per job, not bad.....compared to our current federal government sticking us for $400,000 per job.....http://finance.townh...,000/page/full/
Just a friendly reminder, that the funds used to build the interstate infrastructure necessary for this store were part of a federal stimulus program. Almost the same day they broke ground, this project was announced.
Add the 380. And now the state is going to fork over the money for a new bridge.
It's gotten help at literally every level.
(won't get into the Navy and military that defends the shipping lanes from both china and the mideast to get you your cheap goods).
http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecoveryData/Pages/RecipientReportedDataMap.aspx?stateCode=TX
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Feels almost like it's some strip center in a craptastic Towne Centre way the eff out in Woodlands, Katy, Sealy, SugarLand, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
Don't worry. In a few years the 24-hour check cashing place, used mattress store, criKet, work source, 24-hour game room, and touristas americanos will set up shop within or directly across the street from this place.
The check cashing store is called "Loan Depot", their sign is up already.
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When did a liquor store become a bad thing?
Its not a bad thing and for the folks who live under the yale street bridge, they have more potent options than what is sold at the gas station.
I am only contrasting the idea that was initially proposed ( tree lined biking and walking trails with unique shopping and dining) to what actually gets built ( a standard crappy stip mall copied and pasted from some anonymous place).
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Quizno's
Check cash store
AT&T store
Mattress Firm
Chipotle
Wings n Things (I wish)
Spec's (I wish more)
Starsucks
Bed bath and beyond (please god no)
Marble slab
Chuck e cheese (at which point the anti-burbanites' heads explode!!!!)
Chronicle is reporting the new tenants
http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2012/07/new-tenants-for-heights-area-walmart-center-announced/
JP Morgan Chase
Taco Cabana
Visionworks
Sport Clips
Jersey Mike’s
Nailtime
GNC
GameStop
Corner Bakery
Starbucks
Verizon
Which Wich
Chipotle
So it is as bad as it seems both a walmart and a starbucks, nail salon, bank, and a liqour store (not listed above but the sign is already up.)
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While I recognize the sarcasm - apparently there is nothing preventing people from having Geese....there is a house at nicholson and 12th - that keeps two geese....they are extremely loud and honk at every single person that passes by on the sidewalk, and about half the people that pass by on the hike and bike trail. If I were that houses neighbors, I would go crazy - those birds are LOUD.
Sounds like freedom to me.
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I know, repaving roads can be a significant undertaking. It's just frustrating because the works seems to have stalled out over the past 2 months or so. The East side of the street is ripped up, and they haven't done anything to it. It's just a big pit.
It doesn't help, that heights and studemont under construction as well. amazingly shepherd between washington and memorial was repaved in a week.
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I agree. To make it worse, the people using the trail in the median apparently believe that everyone should stop for them. Check out this quote on RUDH's Facebook page asking for support of the petition...
With all due respect to the deceased, she did not die due to poor intersection management. She died because she ran in front of a moving vehicle. There was not a problem with the lights. She was not paying attention, and ran in front of a vehicle against the red light for Heights traffic, including joggers. No amount of safety measures...short of a gate...will protect those who run into a street without looking.
True, the death could have been prevented but the design of the intersection is simply absurd.
This intersection is very poorly lit for one thing, and the design is absolutely absurd. I drove by their at night not long after the accident and strangely, this intersection is much darker than Harvard at 11th or yale at 11th, have no idea why, but I would expect it to be more lit if anything considering the level of pedestrian traffic.
Second. I have never seen anyone use the trail as intended where you run one block, cross heights blvd, then cross 11th st, then cross heights again, run another block, cross heights then, cross 10th then, cross back to heights again, repeat, repeat, ....
Considering the number of people using the trail, there should be adequate light and markings where people use it. Despite its ridiculous design.
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Great, so the State of Texas administered federal funding to improve an interstate highway and you're comparing to unrelated neighborhood-level health & safety projects funded by the City of Houston. Articulate a cogent point or get back on topic.
Sidewalks and bike trails are transportation for me.
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No. Those expenditures are unrelated to public health or safety. And wasn't it TXDoT that funded the feeder roads?
No it is one of those "shovel ready" stimulus funded projects.
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This isn't about roadway spending versus other spending.
So you are equally outraged at all the spending on the Yale speedway and highway feeder roads and exits going in the heights?
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Would love to see a pie chart on the past 10 years of roadway spending vs all other transportation spending for texas and federal. There would be no sense in carving a sliver out for hike\bike because it couldn't be detected using the unaided eye, so might as well lump it with rail and others. For graft you should look at the woodlands water taxi funding.Hopefully there's an investigative reporter out there that would be willing to put together a compendium of misallocated federal monies. This isn't the first time in recent history that I've been made aware of this kind of thing going on.-
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Yeah, a map that considers a zip code to be poorly served because there are not any grocery stores in that zip, even though there may be 3 or 4 right on the edge. Never mind how many people there are, or how small the zip code is. 023, my zip, there's Kroger within walking distance, fiesta within short driving distance, and heb down in gulfgate. Not sure where the 4th is and I'm pretty sure there isn't a 5 or 6?
Those poor guys that live in the Greenway plaza zip code aren't served by a grocery at all!
I agree 006 019 are misrepresented, party because the zip codes are relatively small and other boundries being distort those zip codes. I don't think the article goes on to mention those neighborhods as food deserts either.
The point is the vast swath of NE houston and south houston that are barren. Not zip codes surrounded by plenty of options, but the ones surrounded by ones without options. But further to your point, with so many options so close why should we have to sponsor a supermarket cluster in an area with plenty of options when miles of the city have nothing.
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I get where you're coming from, and that's why I'd oppose the Kroger 380, which was a give-away to the grocer. But the Ainbinder 380 only funds infrastructure improvements around the development, including street repaving and widening, and the extension of the Heights bike trail. It wouldn't matter who the tenants were; these were improvements best undertaken during construction of a new [anything] on that site, and it was just icing on the cake that the developer pays up front and is indemnified for completing them to City specs before eventually being reimbursed. Its one of the few competent 380 Agreements, IMO.
Except part of the rationale for this 380 was the underserved nature of grocery in the area. How is the yale developmet going to extend the Heights bike trail? I haven't seen anything about that, and can't imagine how they would do it. The bike trail pre-walmart extended from Washington to 20th so I am curious where it will go now.
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I agree, I am not sure if 006 falls out by HEB being too new and fiesta and kroger being on the border with 098. 019 is a stretch too with Randalls and Central Market being so close.
This is besides your point, but their definition of 'food desert' is misleading. Zip code 77006 has access to plenty of supermarkets, including the remodeled Montrose Kroger and nearby H-E-B. Only the zips that have no supermarkets and are far removed from those in neighboring zip codes should really fall into that definition.
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The Chronicle had an article on the vast swath of food deserts in Houston. The map of grocery stores by zip code helps show why it is so critical to divert funds to building big grocery stores in 77007.
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Does anyone know about this supposedly awesome Thai place on Cavalcade? Someone I know had take out (brought by someone else who I don't know) from there and said it was incredible but knows nothing about it. I know most people don't consider Cavalcade "The Heights" but close enough to count it's restaurants if they're awesome.
Asia Market & Thaifood 1010-B Cavalcade
http://maps.google.c...,348.94,,1,0.78
It looks like a total dump, never been but the houston press loves it.
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/08/asia_market_thai_food_curry_ho.php
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I thought it was just AWP who don't want wal mart.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/01/indias-retail-reform
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The cultural differences are only skin-deep, not that much greater than the difference between buying a silver car or buying a beige car.
Yeah, but how many Trader Joes would get built on eleven acres? With or without a Wal-Mart, there will be something, and there will be traffic. The only differences as far as neighborhood impact or desirability are qualitative (i.e. Are the shoppers predominantly white or brown? Are the shoppers predominantly rich or poor? That kind of thing. And I for one, don't care.)
Man, You really got a hate on for the heights.
While many of your comparisons are correct, anyone who has spent time in both locations wouldn't remotely equate the two.
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Apparently, now we have to worry about people robbing the "Heights" walmart with AK-47s. = ]
It will give the Heights kroger a run for its money.
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Why did this thread pop back up for no reason? I guess I'll give it a reason.
Don't know? I saw my name next to it and wondered if my account had been tampered with. Looked at the entry and there was nothing there?
Walmart Supercenter At 111 Yale St.
in The Heights
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This makes no sense, considering the demographics of where the store is and how many food options there are with in 5 miles. If this were north east of downtown or any of the other food deserts, I would agree with you.
Low income housing was literally replaced with a starbucks.
A poor person is much more disadvataged by the reducion in cheap central houston housing with access to transport than saving 10 cents on milk.