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All Ive read about the extension to Bush is that it would just be an extension up there. I dont know how many stops it would have. But I cant imagine anyone would take the light rail all the down to downtown from the airport if there were a ton of stops, it would take hours.
Tower on the left is a mid rise, about 12 stories tall and the one in the background is the new highrise which will be about as tall if not taller than the Anadarko Tower.
Who would ever think you would see this much crane porn in an exurb of Houston?
Lots of cool dense new hoods going up in the Woodlands too, this is how sprawl should be done.
My parents almost bought one of these houses a couple months ago but then decided to move to some new sprawl development north of Porter on a golf course
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Great updates! The Woodlands is by far the nicest of Houston suburbs IMO. Sugar Land, Katy, Clear Lake---sure, they're nice. But The Woodlands puts an exclamation point on how suburban living is done with style. The problem is now it's getting so nice, it's getting to where I can't afford to live there. lol.
The best thing that ever happened to them is the fact that they were not annexed by Houston. What a total S@#t show that would have been.
^ Actually, I'm thinking more along the lines of complete fail.
I'm not feeling the "woods" part of Woodlands in any of these recent developments. I thought the premise of any new construction within this community was grounded in the requirement to maintain at least some part of that original rural forestation. That's what made this community so unique -- it kept that dense treeline that you just don't see in very many suburban developments, regardless of the developer or the locale.
This is just a visual reminder of how blind and greedy Howard Hughes is. I mean honestly, do you see anything even remotely close to "sustainable development" in anything Hughes has done since they took over in 2011? I sure as hell don't. If I was George Mitchell, I'd be throwing a shit fit right about now.
My fiance's family has lived in the Woodlands for almost 10 years, and my mother-in-law was just telling me last week how "it's nothing like it used to be". It's a shame, really.
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Come on now, they actually have dense faux historic developments there, you have to admit thats pretty damn cool compared to crap like Katy or Kingwood where I grew up. The Woodlands still has "woods" surrounding most of their developments. With the photos I posted above thats along Lake Woodlands and they cut down all of those trees like a decade ago in preparation for development. I would much rather see sustainable dense development like this then regular suburban development that keeps some trees. The denser a development is, the less forested land they will have to cut down elsewhere. Random patches of trees dont really help wildlife, other then cardinals, Blue Jays, etc. You need dense contiguous forest to maintain a diversity of wildlife.
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Come on now, they actually have dense faux historic developments there, you have to admit thats pretty damn cool compared to crap like Katy or Kingwood where I grew up. The Woodlands still has "woods" surrounding most of their developments. With the photos I posted above thats along Lake Woodlands and they cut down all of those trees like a decade ago in preparation for development. I would much rather see sustainable dense development like this then regular suburban development that keeps some trees.
Isn't Kingwood in the same arena as the Woodlands, though? I was under the impression that it was a master-planned community built around the same time as the Woodlands was (the only obvious difference being that Kingwood was annexed by Houston proper). What makes the two different? Unless I answered my own question by way of it being annexed...
Kingwood has nothing in it at all, except HEB, Randalls, and some places to eat. Theres only 2 bars that I know of in Kingwood, and one of ems all the way at the front of Kingwood. Kingwood has nice bike trails and forests but The Woodlands is like Kingwood times 10. Everyone thinks that everyone in Kingwood is super rich, when this isnt the case. Id say about 10% of Kingwood is really rich. All the richies have moved to the Woodlands or River Oaks/Rice Village in the city. The Woodlands has much much more to do and is more easily accessible to downtown then Kingwood is. The Woodlands has its own dense downtown now basically with tons of bars, places to shop, hotels, and cafes. Kingwood has a crappy nail salon/dry cleaner infested town center. The Woodlands is now also home to the headquarters of Anadarko and many other smaller oil/gas companies. The Woodlands is home to botoxed BMW 3 Series driving soccer moms and spoiled Mustang driving high school students. Kingwood has some of that, but the per capita income of Kingwood is 32,000 bucks, while the Woodlands its 38,000 bucks. Median income for a family in the Woodlands is 113,500 bucks, while in Kingwood its 84,000.
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Those homes with porches on both levels are incredibly appealing to me. There's nothing I would love more than to sit on a porch like that and watch a thunderstorm approaching (like the ones approaching the Woodlands tonight, if they hold together).
I've seen a lot of that historic style going up in the inner loop of Houston, too, mainly in areas undergoing gentrification. I'm afraid they would be out of my price range, though. If I ever move back to that area, I'll probably end up in a 50s or 60s house in Westbury.
I'll probably end up in a 50s or 60s house in Westbury.
Hah weird. Is that area now gentrifying? It's where my mother grew up. Maybe my grandmother shouldn't have sold her house near Fondren to the "we buy ugly houses" people 10 years ago. The middle class residential subdivisions are full of some cool mid-century homes, and I guess most of the apartments are gone now?\
Sorry if I dragged this too of topic. Oh well, maybe one day we'll have development news from that part of town. I believe they are slowly putting new things in the old meyerland shopping center, like a health clinic in the old borders.
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Hah weird. Is that area now gentrifying? It's where my mother grew up. Maybe my grandmother shouldn't have sold her house near Fondren to the "we buy ugly houses" people 10 years ago. The middle class residential subdivisions are full of some cool mid-century homes, and I guess most of the apartments are gone now?\
Sorry if I dragged this too of topic. Oh well, maybe one day we'll have development news from that part of town. I believe they are slowly putting new things in the old meyerland shopping center, like a health clinic in the old borders.
Yes, there are some great mid-century modern homes in Westbury, Meyerland, and Willow Meadows. I've been in some of them, and they are amazing. I think there are some over by Hobby Airport, too.
"Inside the Loop" is a very common phrase you'll hear in Houston. I'd like to think "The Walled Garden" could be a similar such phrase describing a narrower zone where young singles want to live (as evidenced by the explosion in apartment construction within it) vs. more family-oriented areas like West U, Bellaire, The Heights, or the various neighborhoods of the east side. It could also be used for branding and attracting young talent to Houston...
Boundaries of proposed area per a commentator on the blog.
Th origin of the name:
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There are now enough tall buildings to almost outline a new zone. If you go from the Medical Center up to Downtown, west along Allen Parkway/Memorial, south along 610/Post Oak, back east to Greenway Plaza, and then southeast to return to the Medical Center...there is an almost continuous - well not continuous - but a substantial line of skyscrapers. And it's pretty green within that zone, as least from an elevated viewpoint. And we named it "The Walled Garden".
I'm not digging the name too much, but I like the concept. What do y'all think?
I REALLY dislike it. The term "Walled Garden" is taken to be negative, in every other context in which it's used. I'd say its a pejorative.
For Houston, it could be construed to mean that the inner loop is lacking in diversity and has become gentrified to the exclusion of minorities, small businesses, etc. Actually if you were a columnist or blogger it sounds like the perfect phrase to use for making a critical statement on the matter.
Houston needs to cultivate the opposite image, that the urban part of the city is a vibrant, colorful free for all and anything with "walls" in it is no bueno.
I REALLY dislike it. The term "Walled Garden" is taken to be negative, in every other context in which it's used. I'd say its a pejorative.
For Houston, it could be construed to mean that the inner loop is lacking in diversity and has become gentrified to the exclusion of minorities, small businesses, etc. Actually if you were a columnist or blogger it sounds like the perfect phrase to use for making a critical statement on the matter.
Houston needs to cultivate the opposite image, that the urban part of the city is a vibrant, colorful free for all and anything with "walls" in it is no bueno.
Yea "walled" conjures up negative images. I do like the "garden" themed as it is green and lush in the core, not to mention the parks.
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