bkueb73 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 anything like this in Houston?http://www.thevillageapts.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Man I hope they don't come here. The last thing I want to see is more apartment complexes. Blah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 dittoSo what makes these different from apartment complexes we currently have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rps324 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Actually the Village was the model Lincoln Property Company tried to duplicate with the Greenspoint renovation project Cityview. They thought they would have the same success, I don't have to tell you the outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Actually the Village was the model Lincoln Property Company tried to duplicate with the Greenspoint renovation project Cityview. They thought they would have the same success, I don't have to tell you the outcome.Greenspoint was obviously a bad choice for Cityview. If they had tried to create the same thing say, in Rice Military they might've been ok. Lucky for the inner-loopers that they didn't. I say a massive apartment area like that is just a ghetto in the making unless it's very well-located.I don't think we need to worry about something like that happening here as finding 330 acres 5 miles from downtown to build apartments on is not happening. Maybe in 1975, but not from here on out.Hopefully we won't pass any socialist "affordable housing" laws that would subsidize some similar version of this down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkueb73 Posted October 11, 2005 Author Share Posted October 11, 2005 From what i've read/heard, its a nice complex with lotsa singles all in one place. As a single guy, cant ever have too much of that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Unless they have completely rehabbed the place in the last 10 years, The Village is a cheezy dump. It was all the rage in the 70s and early 80s, similar to that big complex on Richmond. By the 90s, it was just a huge collection of outdated apartments. Anyone that lived there seemed like he/she was stuck in an 80s time warp...including my friend! I've not heard anything about it recently, suggesting, to me at least, that it is still the same ghetto it was in the 90s. Any Dallas residents want to give us an update? My info is a couple of years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 (edited) I don't think there is anything like that in Houston. Your best bet is in Midtown. My info is old as well on The Village...But in 1995 all my buddies from Southwest Airlines used to live there. We used to play tennis there all the time. It was pretty much party central around there. The best thing about them was the location. But you always kinda felt like somebody was lurking in the shaddows. The place ALWAYS smelled like sweet, sweet cheeba. Edited October 11, 2005 by MidtownCoog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 anything like this in Houston?http://www.thevillageapts.com/Yeah, in the 1970's it is call the Gulfton area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dp2 Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Yes, the Villages were quite successful in their prime, but like most complexes, became viewed as run down over time as newer competition lured away their target market. Nowadays they are struggling, and some nearby complexes are some of the higher crime areas in the city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Yet another lesson in the risks of clustering together a bunch of rental properties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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