SpringTX Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 http://www.pbase.com/thadl/the_woodlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 there are more high density, mixed-use buildings on the boards now. i think the finished product will look a bit different than this '02 rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfootball Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Just like Greenspoint, but with more 'flair'.BTW, I can confirm that there will be an adjoining tower to go along with Anadarko's 1st tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 how can you confirm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab4dd0n Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I'd say they are getting pretty close. Give it a few more years and people might actually not laugh at you if you mention "downtown Woodlands area" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston1stWordOnTheMoon Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Just getting it nice and ready for the full annexation and integration by the city of Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 I'd say they are getting pretty close. Give it a few more years and people might actually not laugh at you if you mention "downtown Woodlands area"No, not close. 'Downtown Woodlands' will get the same polite response as 'Port of Dallas' gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureAuteur Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 The Woodlands hopefully would never allow itself to be annexed by Houston. It's not even in the same county. It needs to be completely separate so it can establish it's own culture. Then they need to develop a zoning ordinance which would make it illegal for Wal-Mart to locate anywhere in the Woodlands city limits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houstonian in Iraq Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 The Woodlands hopefully would never allow itself to be annexed by Houston. It's not even in the same county. It needs to be completely separate so it can establish it's own culture. Then they need to develop a zoning ordinance which would make it illegal for Wal-Mart to locate anywhere in the Woodlands city limits. Hey, Htown annexed Kingwood(portions in Montgomery county) why not the Woodlands. The more the merrier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 "Downtown Woodlands" = swanky business park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 swanky business park with concerts, festivals, children's activities, farmer's market, book signings, free live entertainment weekly and hundreds, soon to be thousands of residents. some business park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22Blessings Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 how did the Farmer's Market turn out? I was going to go but it was too rainy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureAuteur Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 "Downtown Woodlands" = swanky business park. Hahahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 how did the Farmer's Market turn out? I was going to go but it was too rainy..i didn't get out early enough to make the farmer's market. it was raining quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Finishing Touches: Waterway expansions slated for fallBy: ERIN MYERS, Villager staff09/13/2000Built from what was once a large drainage ditch, The Woodlands Waterway is one of the community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 i'm not sure i like the sound of "downtown woodlands". i think the leaders of TCID and TWDC should continue to say "the woodlands town center".Everybody's trying to have a downtown these days. Westchase wants to be "the downtown of west Houston".I guess that once various neighborhoods have staked claims to the prefixes "down", "mid", and "up", other areas basically start going by "downtown #2", "#3", "#4", etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureAuteur Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 One way I define a "downtown" is an urban center of activity that has lots of pedestrian traffic at any given time of day. I don't think Westchase will ever be like that. It's just a business park, where people go to work, then get into their cars (escorted by a security guard) and drive back to their Katy homes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 One way I define a "downtown" is an urban center of activity that has lots of pedestrian traffic at any given time of day. I don't think Westchase will ever be like that. It's just a business park, where people go to work, then get into their cars (escorted by a security guard) and drive back to their Katy homes.Jeez, that's some harsh stereotyping.I define a "downtown" as the Central Business District to a metropolitan area. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertnurick Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Yeah, but you're not an urbanist snob, TheNiche. They're always trying to put down anything that doesn't fit into their utopian views. The problem is that most families don't want to live in an urban paradise, and many of the other folks who'd like to can't afford it.It really torques 'em off that people who live in non-utopian areas are actually happy with their environment. LOL. We just aren't enlightened enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 They need to develop a zoning ordinance which would make it illegal for Wal-Mart to locate anywhere in the Woodlands city limits.There is a Wal-mart already there.And correct me if I am wrong, but they really need to add more street.When I think of a downtown, it is not just tall buildings, I think of a square/plaza with a grid pattern coming off it.It does look like a newer Greenspoint to me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Can anybody confirm the second Anadarko Tower? Seems Anadarko isn't doing so hot right now. Looking at the rendering from 02', there are buildings in places now that aren't on there. I've lived in The Woodlands since 89', I would never have dreamed all this being here. It practically sprang up overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 a friend at the chamber swears there is a second tower in the works; however, another friend who just got canned swears that anadarko has no building campaign in the works. i wouldn't bet on a new tower being announced this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I'm looking forward to it. I like the urbanization. Back in 89', this was the sticks...even farther up the road in Conroe, that was just a random town in the middle of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 freakin conroe powers that be have passed on many, MANY things that would have put them on the map. old school, family ties have kept them in crap mode. and now, they want to annex parts of the woodlands in order to have some cash.years ago, some people in the area wanted to eliminate billboards and keep conroe pretty. the powers that be didn't like the idea because the families who owned many billboards in the area would have suffered financially and were connected with city government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Let's face facts...Conroe is ghetto and The Woodlands wants no part of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Impossible Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 is there a rendering of these new projects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojeaux131 Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 The Woodlands hopefully would never allow itself to be annexed by Houston. It's not even in the same county. It needs to be completely separate so it can establish it's own culture. Then they need to develop a zoning ordinance which would make it illegal for Wal-Mart to locate anywhere in the Woodlands city limits.Actually, I read that Houston city limits actually come into Montgomery County....barely. However, I totally agree with everything else you said, especially the Wal-Mart bit. My family lives just across the freeway from the Wood in "Spring", and while the development in the Town Center is nice, the development along Rayford-Sawdust and especially around the Wal-Mart is nasty-looking. And, as much as I would like to see the development of SoMoCo Culture, right now it seems like the primary cultural activity is shopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Houston city limits do come into Montgomery County over by Kingwood. However if you look carefully on a map, Houston city limits also approach the MoCo line on 45. Houston had annexed a small strip of land on 45 all the way up to 2920 in Spring to include The Woodlands in it's TDJ or TCJ...whatever it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojeaux131 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Fun fact: moco means booger in Spanish. Irrelevant, but fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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