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

16 Comments

1. 1
   From Benny Cargill:

   Ring around the Collar

   September 28, 2012 at 12:34 pm
2. 2
   From Line queen:

   I wish Washington DC had “rings” around it. As it is we have one beltway and if there is any rain at all people just sorta quit with the gas peddle. I swear, if someone peed on the beltway traffic would back up for miles.

   Ann

   September 28, 2012 at 1:11 pm
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   From Ian:

   What a waste of resources.

   September 28, 2012 at 1:14 pm
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   From Eddie:

   Wow! Over 2 billion dollars is being spent on the reconstruction of US 290 and the Grand Parkway. Yet most Houstonians still whine about paying a few million for light rail. People here make no damn sense!

   September 28, 2012 at 3:13 pm
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   From Pablo:

   This will have even more people moving to the Northwest side of ‘town’.

   September 28, 2012 at 3:14 pm
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   From shadyheightster:

   Wish Sheila Action Jackson Lee could hold up federal funds for this like Culberson holds up funds for light rail on Richmond, but it doesn’t look like there is much Ferderal money in this. I guess after cutting education dollars to the bone, somehow our state has found some pocket change for this.

   September 28, 2012 at 3:25 pm
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   From Thomas:

   Ummm,link for Tollroad News goes to a story from February 12th, 2012… not new news if you ask me.

   September 28, 2012 at 4:57 pm
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   From TheNiche:

   What’s up with GP Segment A? It’s the only undecided route left, and seemingly no progress is being made. The Grand Parkway Association doesn’t even bother attempting to estimate a schedule for it on their website.

   September 28, 2012 at 5:45 pm
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   From Lost_In_Translation:

   Is section A even necessary with the NASA 1 flyover in place already? It’s not like that section of the coast needs to be further built up…

   September 29, 2012 at 10:59 am
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    From TheNiche:

    The NASA 1 flyover is great for the Harris County side of the Clear Lake area, but doesn’t do anything for the Galveston County side where the Grand Parkway would intersect with I-45. And at present, FM 646 is a real bear. It takes about as long to get to San Leon as it does to get to Galveston.

    A case can be made for Segments A, B, and C for evacuation purposes. If it is good public policy that development should be constrained (which I think it is), then I would propose that the state legislature address that issue separately and that federally subsidized insurance programs be revoked. You’d witness home prices in that area collapse, and then very few people would want to own or build there even if they could access it. And to the extent that there would be any building going on, it would be of better quality, more resistant to catastrophic losses. But they should still have better access like every other part of our region.

    September 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm
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    From Chris Litherland:

    Oh joy, what Houston needs more of; urban sprawl.

    September 29, 2012 at 4:09 pm
12. 12
    From eiioi:

    Wait, so not even snarkiness can stop this thing now?

    October 1, 2012 at 1:25 pm
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    From Frank:

    Only problem is that with a huge name like Grand Parkway, what will we call the next, even bigger loop?

    October 1, 2012 at 2:18 pm
14. 14
    From commmonsense:

    I suppose it will be called the Grand Wizard Parkway… but only if runs through Jasper.

    October 1, 2012 at 3:04 pm
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    From tgt:

    How about the Loop the Loop…..the Loop….the Loop?

    October 1, 2012 at 10:00 pm
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    From CopywriterHalWerner:

    Perhaps something like the Magnanimous Horseshoe, since the coast will prevent any future ring road from being a true loop.

    October 2, 2012 at 9:23 am