- Single-Family Home Sales in Houston Up 3.1% Year-Over-Year in April, Finds HAR [HBJ]
- Nitya Capital Picks Up 510-Unit City West Apartments in Westchase [Houston Chronicle]
- Wildwood Corporate Centre Near The Woodlands Gains 2 Tenants with One on the Way Out [Houston Chronicle]
- Late Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley’s River Oaks Home on the Market for Nearly $4.5M [HBJ]
- The City’s Plan for Fixing Lower Westheimer’s Narrow Lanes, Failing Infrastructure [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
- Historic Galveston Trolleys Shipping Out to Iowa for Repairs Ahead of Return to the Streets [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Houston-Based David Weekley Homes Ranked No. 14 on Professional Builder Magazine’s 2017 Housing Giants List [Houston Chronicle]
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As someone who lives in Montrose, I like the plan. it’s time for lower Westheimer to no longer be an artery to the west side and for it to be the pedestrian friendly area it should always be. The turning lanes at Dunlavey, Hazard and others are long overdue. The construction project itself will force people to find alternate routes to the west side and therefore by the time this is done, it will have already (hopefully) seen a reduction in traffic.
That Westheimer plan looks surprisingly sensible. Without significantly widening the street – you gain larger sidewalks, a ton of parking, left turn lanes, bus stops that still allow through traffic to bypass the stopped busses – and all you lose is a traffic “lane” that is barely usable anyways.
@ montrose yogi…” it’s time for lower Westheimer to no longer be an artery to the west side and for it to be the pedestrian friendly area it should always be”. You are kidding right? Westheimer is and was intended to be thoroughfare to the west side. Its a farm to market road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_to_Market_Road_1093
I can tell a Gail Delaughter article because I hear her voice in my head when reading it.
I still find it funny how HAR always reports sales are up, market is strong, and you shall pay higher prices, regardless of what actual numbers show. If their reporting was subject to SEC review, many people would be going to jail long ago.
@turning_basin. True, because when I drive Westheimer from Montrose to the Beltway the first thing that comes to mind is agriculture. Times do change, ya know?
One through lane at Dunlavy is probably going to cause some problems, considering the amount of right-turn traffic to head South off of Westheimer, especially considering the pedestrian traffic at that interestion.
@turning_basin: FM 1093 doesn’t begin until Loop 610.
@ turning_basin: Read and learn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm-to-market_road):
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“As a result of population growth and the expansion of urban areas, many Farm to Market and Ranch to Market roads that originally served rural areas now serve urban areas, sometimes exclusively.”
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Or, if you insist that Westheimer still serves the original purpose of the farm-to-market road, then I’ll agree to keeping it that way when you agree to turning 59 back into the rail line that it used to be when the farm-to-market system was created.
@commonsense – right on.
I guess we will soon see the Denton Cooley house on the demolition list. It is being sold as-is.