- $2M Project Repaving 33 Blocks of Seawall Blvd. To Begin in February [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Aldi Planning To Open Stores in Webster, Kemah This Year [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
- Friendswood May Be on the Hook for $1M in Improvements to Brazoria County Land It Can’t Buy [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- State Legislators Say Texas Lags Behind Other States in Health, Education, Environment [KUHF]
- With No Zoning, Deed Restrictions Relied Upon To Protect Neighborhood Character in Houston [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Warmer Winter Temperatures, Spring Freezes May Cut Texas Peach Crop [Houston Chronicle]
- The Story of Zelko Bistro’s 89 Beehives in South Houston, Alvin [Houston Chronicle ($)]
Photo of a 25-foot oak tree being planted at Skanska’s 3009 Post Oak Blvd. office building: Craig Hartley/Skanska
Minimum lot size is one way a redeveloped Freedman’s Town could have looked better. Another way would be to have a minimum setback, or a maximum % lot coverage requirement. Of course, that would be getting into ZONING.
Get back to us in about 5 years on how that tree transplant went.
I certainly understand Mr. Washington’s sentiment. I grew up in Alief during the 80s and I miss the Minemax on Dairy Ashford and Bellaire, I remember the old Alief Hospital, and the acres of farm land across the railroad tracks from Alief-Clodine road.
What’s happened is progress and change, I’m sure Frank Sharp (if he were alive today) would look at Sharpstown mall and what it’s become.
How many people who live in the Heights today look at how the Walmart has totally destroyed their neighborhood?
Is it really a shame that times change, and with it the way a neighborhood looks? I noticed he glossed over the way the place looked in the 80s…
Oh please, people can wax poetic all they want about what the 4th ward used to be but the facts are what they are. Run-down shotgun shacks are NOT historic. Not in the least.
It’s funny how people will let their neighborhood go to hell when it comes to “maintenance” but then when it isn’t redeveloped to their liking they want the taxpayers to pay to “preserve” it. The best preservation is a commitment to maintenance from the start. As is said in the classic car world: “it’s only original ONCE.”