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Photo of 1515 Beall St.: Joe Bielamowicz via Swamplot inbox
Bring It On
The image of a single family home stuck in a closet of townhouses is one of the single most frightening images that I have taken away from Houston. The longer I am away from Houston the more they make me cringe.
…..aren’t you the guy that recently relished on the fact that you sold a similar impeding structure just in time to “get out of houston”?
I dont know what you two are talking about, but,
TRULY there goes the neighborhood
@Toby
Yes indeed, that was him. I guess he cringed all the way from closing to closing…. Poor guy!
Why should the image of a small single-family home surrounded by townhouses be frightening? This image is a symbol of the fact that Houston is the city with perhaps the single fastest ability to adapt to changing housing demand. This kind of densification is why a lot more people can afford to live close to jobs and recreation, rather than being forced into the suburbs.
This picture is a sign of a vibrant, thriving neighborhood, and fills me with hope for the future.
Actually, Toby & Lycos; my place was just south of I10 and north of buffalo bayou. There wasn’t much neighborhood there to destroy with townhomes (at least where I was located). In fact there wasn’t much of a neighborhood at all where I was! This was nothing like what what was/is happening to other areas of town, such as the one pictured.
The area where that picture was taken was beyond crappy, full of old houses that had not been maintained, plus a plethora of mobile homes. The townhomes are a major improvement.
I concede…it is a beautiful picture