- Galveston County Commissioners Approve Use of Eminent Domain To Acquire 16 Acres Around Rollover Pass [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Weingarten Realty Picks Up Pier One Property at 1935 West Gray for River Oaks Shopping Center Expansion [Houston Chronicle]
- Walmart To Cut 440 Jobs When It Closes Willowbrook Mall Super Center, Neighborhood Market at 2740 Gessner Rd. [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Houston Building Owners Expected To Start Cutting Rental Rates Soon Amid Oil Downturn [Realty News Report]
- Homebuilders Offering Discounts, Others Buying Fewer Lots in Slower Housing Market [Houston Chronicle]
- City Launches Website Where Uses Can Track Progress of Reported Potholes [Houston Public Media]
- Slideshow: The Streets with the Most Pothole Reports [Houston Chronicle]
- Groups Call To Designate 2-Mile Tree-Lined Stretch in the Heights the Yale Green Corridor [Houston Chronicle]
- Petition Opposing Houston’s Switch to LED Streetlights Has More Than 400 Signatures [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of the Med Center: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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If the city wants wider lanes on Yale, they should convert it to three lanes, like Studewood, then add a couple feet of grass between the sidewalk and the road. With the multifamily development already underway, and the upcoming retail development, this would make for a more pleasant pedestrian experience.
RE: Heights Yale Green Corridor… do not widen Yale!!! Never ever!!! Since they added the I10 access road west of Yale this street has been nothing short of a speedway. Making it wider would only encourage people to go faster.
I think the plans to widen yale are dead. The current effort to protect the trees is due to the surge in redevelopment along Yale St. Developers like to take out the trees during construction and replace them with much smaller “mitigation” trees.
Is there a petition to ignore the petition against the LED lights? I’d bet there’d be more signatures on that. Environmentally more friendly, brighter for nighttime visibility. Overall it’s a better solution than other bulbs.
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They could have done with going to a warmer color though, something in the 2500k spectrum, rather than where they appear to be now, which is probably about 3000k.