Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design

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   From kjb434:

   Michigan has a similar mountain somewhere that is now used for snow skiing in winter.

   A small town advertised itself to other municipalities that it’ll take the trash for a fee. The mountain was built, capped, and voila: A ski hill! I need to go dig up the city name and the old article. It was about 10 or 15 years ago.

   Of course we won’t be able to ski here in Houston except for rare weather conditions.

   May 12, 2009 at 10:43 am
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   From DMc:

   Can we put some mountain bike trails on it?

   May 12, 2009 at 11:58 am
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   From biggerintexas:

   Was there anything architectural about the video? It seemed more like an advertising and/or graphic design project. I have a hard time seeing anything practical in that video.

   May 12, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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   From miss_msry:

   Shadow Creek is advertising like mad on radio, maybe they should promote the mountain bike or snow skiing advantages of the landfill?

   May 12, 2009 at 6:48 pm
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   From katie:

   Fake town, fake city center, fake mountain. Makes sense. It’s a LANDFILL, you can’t make it all pretty, Master Planned Community style.
   Blue Ridge? Hardly. Come up with an original name for something for once.

   May 12, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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   From Miz Brooke Smith:

   Blue Ridge is the name of an old road that traverses the southernmost part of Harris County. As I recall from bicycle ramblings 35 years ago, it was the southern extension of Hillcroft way down past South Main/Highway 90/RR tracks. At that time there was nothing out there but oil fields and the antenna farm, and the whole area was colloquially known as Blue Ridge.

   May 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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   From Ross:

   Blue Ridge was the name for the surface expression of the salt dome underlying the area. There were oil fields and a salt mine in the area. In Brazoria County, there’s Stratton Ridge, another salt dome feature. Folks from other parts of the country laugh at the tiny features we call ridges.

   May 12, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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   From Miz Brooke Smith:

   Thanks for the history, Ross!

   May 13, 2009 at 7:17 am
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   From kjb434:

   Katie,

   It’s no fake than the cottages and bungalows of the Heights. They are mass produced ready to build copies of real cottages and real bungalows. Really no different than today’s spec homes.

   May 13, 2009 at 7:47 am
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    From katie:

    Thanks for the history. It makes better sense now.

    May 13, 2009 at 8:47 am
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    From Joe:

    “Folks from other parts of the country laugh at the tiny features we call ridges.”
    From Ross:

    Why? I don’t see what’s so funny about it. I really don’t get it. A ridge is a small hill. Do people from Iowa and South Dakota laugh about it? How about Louisiana? They have ridges there, too. I live near a place called Black Cat Ridge…because it’s a ridge. Dang that’s funny.

    May 13, 2009 at 12:19 pm
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    From Neil:

    “Fake town, fake city center, fake mountain. Makes sense. It’s a LANDFILL, you can’t make it all pretty, Master Planned Community style.”
    To Katie, re:Shadow Creek — What did you think the shadow was from?

    May 13, 2009 at 7:22 pm