nmainguy

I love your place. I've always been tempted to stop as I bike by. In any event, I welcome your new place and Target as well. If you have any news on the bike trail, thould great.

I love the way you weasel out of being confronted with your own words. I hear you west, but as opposed to my Kroger card, I actually get $$ back on my CVS card via coupons and actual cash back. It's a free card and I'm getting an occasional break so what the hey.

So which is it? You didn't make it up but thought you did...dude?

Maybe if you stopped making things up, posters would stop calling you on it. There was no government interference with the neon on Wedge and there appears to be no government interference with a CVS on Main. What's your point? CVS only goes along with the preferences of the neighborhood when pushed to the wall by existing restrictions. Clearly you and CVS win in this situation as I don't know of anyone in Houston pushing CVS to the wall the way HHA has.

Regardless of the niche's fantasy definition of "upper class", that has no relevancy here. As I stated before, they will build what they want where they want unless a group like the HHA puts enough pressure on them. Clearly no one in Midtown has stepped up to the plate. Most of the posters have given good arguments. dalparadise suggests the ground floor space across the street in the HCC garage. Perhaps CVS could have cut a deal with HCC to include parking. Maybe they tried and failed-doubtful but maybe not. WesternGulf makes too much sense: In the end, CVS did not take the Red Line into consideration because they are going to build it blocks away from any station. Therefore expect a typical CVS just like the one a few blocks away: SUV oriented for lazy people who don't want to bother to take the few extra steps it would take to get to a real urban-style oriented retail outlet. I won't boycott CVS as I use the one at Yale and 20th that the HHA influenced and because the people there are friendly. I won't be using the Main CVS however. Leaves more room for the uber-growth at any cost crowd.

A couple more examples: Hiroshima Timmy's play room As you can see each is identifiable by their bright red fire trucks and can in no way be confused with HFD's future rendition of a Jiffy Lube.

Set-backs on Main, Fannin and Elgin are 10' in that area.

I get where you are coming from but my educated guess is it won't be much different than the Montrose/Richmond store. It will probably face Fannin and/or maybe Elgin with the drive-thru behind or to the side. I don't know if they bought the entire block so I can't tell you if the former hardware store will go. Buildings like this are somewhat disposable in other cities. You build them knowing you'll pocket the bucks when RE values pick up. In the meantime you expand your brand and sell all the NyQuil you can. BTW, I avoid dealing with the help at CVS or Walgreens...or anywhere for that matter. I'm more of an in-and-out kinda guy who trys to do his research upfront.

Whores and crack in IH really has nothing to do with gay sex-unless that's your lame way of deflecting from the subject of whores and crack in IH.

I understand but much of the clientele are newer than me and never saw what's really under there. My mom's wedding dress came from there, BTW.

He/she said: Kinkaid pointed out-rightly so- You clearly don't need the "upper class" for redevelopment in Midtown. If CVS, Walgreens and Randals thought so, they never would have built there. When was the last time you saw Ken Lay or Mrs. Oscar "Oil for Food" Lynn Wyatt slumming in a CVS? CVS isn't catering to that ilk. They are catering to the average Joe. That's why they are building a drive up store on Fannin. The "upper class" has nothing to do with it-as you so aptly implyed.

Buying crack? Check out E32nd at Courtland. Looking for cheap snatch? Try the underpass at Airline and 610.

But it still remains a haven for drugs and prostitution therefore it is a deterent to redevelopment-not something I'm inclined to let continue to fester considering it is at my backdoor.

Good for you. My dad grew up in Brookline and I have 3 aunts, an uncle and almost 40 cousins still in the Boston area. A great place. [bTW, a balmy 93 degrees here this afternoon on my back porch ]

I live adjacent and have never known it to flood.

You pretty much nailed it. No zoning so build what you want. Capitalism at it's nastiness. Screw the neighborhood and throw up that drugstore. My goonie-face reply to niches absurd delusion that mid-town is only for Upper classes made me laugh into my coffee cup. I "fractured." BTW, Kinkade, are you in Boston still? BTW part two: Walgreens is no better. If they had their way you would have been looking at dumpsters from the rose garden on Heights Blvd. At least CVS worked with the neighborhood on that one. Check it out at 20th and Heights. Even our sometimes overbearing HHA gave them an award.

It's about a 3 block walk to the nearest station and a couple of blocks from HCC but I'm guessing it will be another run of the mill CVS facing Fannin.

It's very nice to look at as well as your new place. Clearly Stormy has some great digs.

More examples of the non-Jiffy Lube style: [opps!!!]

I just posted it as something out of the box. Don't worry, we'll get just what we deserve: bland, boring, mundane and what did someone say? A Jiffy Lube. [don't mean to insult Jiffy Lube]

Like this, I hope:

Some of them do but one lives behind my home in Sunset Heights. As with the 4th ward, the desirability of the location will drive the dealers out. It just takes time and $$.

Crack, meth, whores, poverty, unemployment, lack of self-respect and disregard for the surroundings and it's residents. They all go hand in hand. Sit with me on my porch here on N Main any afternoon and watch the parade pass by.

yes...it's the same one...same chicken...