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13 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

1000000%. Cant wait for Greenspoint to be high class in about 30 years

I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of surprised Greenspoint hasn't started to gentrify up already. The location in regards to downtown has to be pretty attractive, at some point there's going to be development. 

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39 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of surprised Greenspoint hasn't started to gentrify up already. The location in regards to downtown has to be pretty attractive, at some point there's going to be development. 

Development of what, though?  Its not like when Town & Country went from a dead mall and barren parking lots to become CityCenter.  It was always surrounded by affluent customers.  Even the north side of I-10 at Gessner where Kirby Ice House is located is next to the Memorial area and SBISD schools.  Greenspoint is surrounded by a pretty tough situation of run-down neighborhoods, warehouse districts and industrial areas.  The only thing it has going for it is the cross-roads of BW8 and 45 (terminally trafficky) and access to the airport.  

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9 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Development of what, though?  Its not like when Town & Country went from a dead mall and barren parking lots to become CityCenter.  It was always surrounded by affluent customers.  Even the north side of I-10 at Gessner where Kirby Ice House is located is next to the Memorial area and SBISD schools.  Greenspoint is surrounded by a pretty tough situation of run-down neighborhoods, warehouse districts and industrial areas.  The only thing it has going for it is the cross-roads of BW8 and 45 (terminally trafficky) and access to the airport.  

Sometimes that's all it takes, though. Westbury was nice, then fucking sucked, and now is nice again. And that happened amidst the entire meyerland area flooding out, what, 2, 3 times in a decade? 

The neighborhoods are run down and rough, yes. But once upon a time, so was the Heights, Shady Acres, and Timbergrove. Washington avenue used to be a regular spot for gun violence 20 years ago. At the end of the day, the only thing that ever seems to win is proximity to downtown. Hell, at one time downtown was a complete shithole and no one wanted to live there. But eventually proximity always wins. 

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57 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of surprised Greenspoint hasn't started to gentrify up already. The location in regards to downtown has to be pretty attractive, at some point there's going to be development. 

there's about to be decades of I-45 rebuild between there and downtown.

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17 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Sometimes that's all it takes, though. Westbury was nice, then fucking sucked, and now is nice again. And that happened amidst the entire meyerland area flooding out, what, 2, 3 times in a decade? 

The neighborhoods are run down and rough, yes. But once upon a time, so was the Heights, Shady Acres, and Timbergrove. Washington avenue used to be a regular spot for gun violence 20 years ago. At the end of the day, the only thing that ever seems to win is proximity to downtown. Hell, at one time downtown was a complete shithole and no one wanted to live there. But eventually proximity always wins. 

You are much more optimistic than me... not to mention areas like the Heights were already charming but decreptily so back then and had a foundation of bungalows, historic central area, etc.  Greenspoint has... I don't know... a Sysco distribution center?

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7 minutes ago, texasdago said:

You are much more optimistic than me... not to mention areas like the Heights were already charming but decreptily so back then and had a foundation of bungalows, historic central area, etc.  Greenspoint has... I don't know... a Sysco distribution center?

Bruh, you're forgetting that bad-ass skate and bike park that you can see from 45.

It's not that I'm optimistic. It just seems like a pattern to me. I lived in Shady Acres at the end of the crime era around 2008-2012. It was not that fucking charming, and the homes were shitholes, and honestly, they've mostly been replaced by relatively soulless townhomes. 

Greenspoint has older homes that can be fixed up fine, not too differently than Spring Branch, and it's 20 minutes from downtown, much closer than the Woodlands and Katy. The schools do suck balls, though, no way around that. It's also close to the airport for frequent travelers, but not RIGHT next to the airport. I feel like there's opportunity there. Just, you know, an expensive one for whatever real estate developer wanted to make a move. 

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On 9/21/2025 at 3:20 PM, GreenspointTexas said:

There is no New Braunfels, no Waxahachie, no Granbury or Johnson City. No Boerne, no Weatherford/Possum Kingdom, no Ennis. No Balcones Escarpment, Edwards Plateau, rivers for floating, cool hikes, history left that isnt torn down. Its just unchecked sprawl, flooding, and paving over much needed gulf prairie. There isnt a single place in Houston outside the loop that is worth driving to in under 45ish min.

What is there in Waxahachie or Weatherford? I'm from the DFW area and we never went there. 

 

Katy has good hunting in the late fall and winter months. That's all I got.

Posted
1 hour ago, elfenix said:

there's about to be decades of I-45 rebuild between there and downtown.

The dead mall is also a huge blight. 

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Posted
21 hours ago, Foosters said:

Yeah, like 80% of the reason you live inside the loop is to judge those outside. 

On a related note, I was talking to my parents recently and they let slip that their West University starter home only cost 32k in 1980. 

TIL the area's poor farm used to be on 200 acres in West U. I don't know exactly where it was but that's the size of the entire SW corner of West U between the tracks and Southside Place, from Bellaire all the way up to University. 

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CardI B is going to be at a Cypress Walmart today. That should bring a big crowd. 
 

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/cardi-b-walmart-cypress-houston/285-da327567-4994-4b6d-aed5-cc4110feb98f?tbref=hp

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as far as the bodies found: there have been 13 in 2025. I guess they are all nothing according to the experts or drug addicts according to the experts. Or suicides. Or slip and falls. Okeedokee. Sure. No. 
 

HOUSTON — “Students at the University of Houston gathered Monday night to honor one of their own. A vigil was held for 20-year-old Jade McKissick, a college junior whose body was recovered from Brays Bayou last week.

McKissick had been missing since September 11. Police said there were no signs of foul play in her case, but the exact cause of death is still pending.

Her body was one of five recovered from Houston bayous in the past week, a number that has left many Houstonians uneasy. In all, at least 13 bodies have been found in local waterways this year.


https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-bayou-bodies-serial-killer-explanation/285-22321699-f418-4b3e-a095-3876be930e60?tbref=hp

The experts say none can be connected bc the causes are all different. So basically if the MO of death is not the same they aren’t going to bother even though there is loads of evidence that serial killers do and have changed methods. 

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