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- Caldwell Companies Working on Multi-Use Development on 15 Acres at FM 1960 and Highway 290 in Cypress [Houston Business Journal]
- Microsoft Store Planned for the Baybrook Mall [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Dr. Andrew Weil-Connected True Food Kitchen Opening July 29 at BLVD Place [Culturemap]
- La Madeleine’s Sawyer Heights Location Now Open, One in Pearland Opening Later This Month [Prime Property]
- TxDOT Now Planning To Replace Yale St. Bridge Beginning in 2016, for $3.6MÂ [The Leader]
- Next Chance To Comment on Proposed Changes to City’s Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan: July 31 Public Hearing [Houston Public Media]
- Major U.S. 290 Closings Around Loop 610 Scheduled This Weekend [The Highwayman]
- Final Repairs Under Way to Fix Ike-Damaged Galveston Fishing Pier [Houston Chronicle]
- Newly Constructed Oak Forest Home Vandalized with ‘Class Warfare’ Graffiti on Garage Door [The Leader]
- Art League Houston Building on Montrose To Be Covered in 350K Acrylic Beads [Houstonia]
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Photo of 21 Eleven construction at 2111 Westheimer: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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“Class Warfare” is just the latest en vogue past time for underachievers and hipsters. I sleep well at night knowing that ilk can never and will never have any power or impact on the real world and will merely be the subjects of a few chuckles around the golf course.
There is a street plan!
I just moved into Oak Forest last week, and have been told twice already oh so you white folks are moving in here now? Granted I’m on the NW side. And Commonsense, you used to have precisely that and now you’re just spouting off jilted diatribes and utterly pointless jabs. Commonsense, maybe if you’re >70 years old and bitter.
cm: You should have heard some of the things shouted to me as we’ve fixed up properties in the third ward. Violent crazy racist stuff.
cm: It’s very sad that in Houston people can have that attitude in this point in time. I’m not sure about the sections west of White Oak (15, 16, 17), but east of the bayou, Oak Forest’s always been a traditionally very “Anglo”. Many (maybe all) used to have deed restrictions about who you could sell your house to, which were officially taken out in the 80’s or thereabouts. When we moved here in ’98, we hadn’t even considered it, because we hadn’t heard about it, just told the realtor we were priced out of the Heights but could he suggest an alternative. When we moved it and got to know neighbors, we quickly realized that it was pretty much non-racially diverse–sometimes with very outright declarations and sometimes very subtle (which weren’t really, since growing up just outside of Chicago on the south side, one really learned what subtle racially discriminatory code words and phrases were).