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Old 05-20-2011, 07:27 AM
 
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Won't happen... Sugar Land has already zoned it all to business park and light industrial. The other business park is getting full and the idea is to have this be the next one (as well as airport expansion.) Go out toward Rosenberg though, and you'll start seeing those builder signs.
Lots of plans even before the prison was closed.

Were they planning on doing that even if the prison didn't close?
or maybe those plans are the reason the prison was closed.
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Old 05-20-2011, 07:45 AM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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I know this is the most likely outcome. But plans can change as conditions change.
That land is waaaay too expensive for a developer to plop 100k homes on, trust me. In the hugely unlikely possibility it was rezoned from business park to residential, it would be more along what you see in Telfair, which is right across Hwy 90A from the site.

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Lots of plans even before the prison was closed.
Were they planning on doing that even if the prison didn't close?
or maybe those plans are the reason the prison was closed.
Not sure.
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Old 05-20-2011, 07:55 AM
 
Location: New Territory
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That land is waaaay too expensive for a developer to plop 100k homes on, trust me. In the hugely unlikely possibility it was rezoned from business park to residential, it would be more along what you see in Telfair, which is right across Hwy 90A from the site.
Agreed. The 100k homes was just an undesireable outcome, in my mind, not a prediction. As far as the rows of metal buildings, well....
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Old 05-20-2011, 11:55 AM
 
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That land is waaaay too expensive for a developer to plop 100k homes on, trust me. In the hugely unlikely possibility it was rezoned from business park to residential, it would be more along what you see in Telfair, which is right across Hwy 90A from the site.
They go hand and hand when you want an ideal community.
You need customer for businesses and you need businesses to provide people the things they need.
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Old 05-20-2011, 12:26 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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They go hand and hand when you want an ideal community. You need customer for businesses and you need businesses to provide people the things they need.
Doesn't matter... a developer won't do something they don't think will be profitable for them. Expensive land generally can't support building cheap homes, from a business standpoint.
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