Camp Strake to become the next "Market Street" and possibly a Triple A baseball team home (Houston: buyer, camping)

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Camp Strake to become next

While officials with the Boy Scouts of America are keeping the identity of the Camp Strake buyer confidential, Conroe officials have confirmed the 2,100-acre site will be home to a commercial/residential development similar to Market Street in The Woodlands.
Meanwhile, sources have told The Courier that Astros owner Jim Crane is part of the Houston area development group that purchased the land, some of which will be used to build a baseball field for Crane’s Triple-A team that is currently located in Oklahoma City.
“The preliminary plan from the developer is a mixed use,” said Larry Calhoun, executive director of the Conroe Industrial Development Corporation. “Mixed use means it would include office buildings and shopping comparable to Market Street and high-end housing.”

I had heard rumors that Camp Strake had been sold to an oil company looking to move their HQ close to the new Exxon campus but apparently that wasn't true. This is going to be huge for the Montgomery County/Conroe area.

[crono_clone]

All our suburbs/exurbs seem to be developing a Town Center/Market Street. Is that a thing now?

[tstone]

Sad, because that was essentially a nature preserve.

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by tstone

Sad, because that was essentially a nature preserve.

The article states that more than half of the land that was purchased isn't usable for anything but a nature preserve so they're leaving it alone. I haven't been to the camp in years but tons of it was swamp and land you could never build anything on.

[peep531]

Boy Scouts to sell local Camp Strake campground to developer | abc13.com

Well, it's a done deal. Goodbye to one of the few wildlife habitats left in the area.

Personally, I fail to see the attraction of a Master Planned Community located next to a freeway in a flood plain, and adjacent to 35 acres of Conroe's new waste water treatment site. Yeah... put me down for a river side lot.
peep

[ethanw]

I will be camping there with my kids one last time by end of this month. I understand that it sold for a really good price, over 160 mill and it was hard to refuse such offer. We will miss that place that's for sure. But many other good boy scouts camps around Houston so is not that bad.

[vwgto]

The success of these many "market streets" will be interesting. There are only so many quaint high-end shops and unique restaurants to go around. Even the Woodlands has a fair amount of churn at their Market Street as shops come/go. I assume some may end-up more like strip shopping centers turned inside-out.

[Schumacher713]

The entire Rice Village area was a swamp at one time.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Schumacher713

The entire Rice Village area was a swamp at one time.

Sugar Land is a swamp

[ethanw]

You just had to do that didn't ya. MORON

Originally Posted by Dopo

Sugar Land is a swamp