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Old 07-29-2010, 03:05 PM
 
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It will be there in 5 years.
I mean now though. Supposedly there's a "barrio" there that I must've not realized was there.

If he means the other side of North Main - this site is nowhere near there. This site off Yale is as close to River Oaks as it is to North Main. Or west of TC Jester, for that matter.

Lyons Avenue and other streets just north of downtown don't have the existing traffic of Washington. Which is probably why Wal-Mart wants this site. It's been established they don't care about what happens to the surroundings of their stores.
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Old 07-29-2010, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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If he means the other side of North Main - this site is nowhere near there. This site off Yale is as close to River Oaks as it is to North Main. Or west of TC Jester, for that matter.
What's that, 2 miles away? Hop in the car and go. That's closer than the next closest Wal-Mart.

Heights:
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As for Spring Valley, going up Bingle & Blalock, that's another gap they're filling in.

Just sayin there's a huge market nearby they're tapping into that seems to be forgotten here.
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Old 07-29-2010, 03:55 PM
 
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What's that, 2 miles away?
More or less. And you're, what, two miles (if that) from that cheap apartment cluster on El Dorado? So I guess they can plop a Wal-Mart in your backyard too. Being that it's a short drive and all. You can have my Galveston County white trash brethren come up there too.
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Old 07-29-2010, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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More or less. And you're, what, two miles (if that) from that cheap apartment cluster on El Dorado? So I guess they can plop a Wal-Mart in your backyard too. Being that it's a short drive and all. You can have my Galveston County white trash brethren come up there too.
Sweet! Just like old times.

Trust, I'd be a NIMBY also if one were to move to that plot of land on the end of El Dorado instead of the possible Whole Foods. But if this area were more congested and demographically similar to the Heights, it would make perfect sense to dump one there (just like north of Spring Valley). Solely from a business standpoint.
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Old 07-30-2010, 04:36 AM
 
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They built a Walmart near my home in Friendswood a few years back. It didn't affect my property value. It kept ticking upwards at the same rate it has for years.
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Old 07-30-2010, 06:07 AM
 
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They built a Walmart near my home in Friendswood a few years back. It didn't affect my property value. It kept ticking upwards at the same rate it has for years.
Whoa. No kidding? What's the current entry price for Heritage Park? A million dollars,....or more?
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Old 07-30-2010, 06:17 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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I'm pretty sure that Clear Lake Sams/Wal-Mart complex is way more than a few years old. The reason it hasn't affected property values is because it's on I-45, on the north border of a 4-mile-long shopping area w/ one of the largest malls in the Houston area. If they plunked it down where Landolt Elementary is, that section would be worse than it already is.
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Old 07-30-2010, 07:06 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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They built a Walmart near my home in Friendswood a few years back. It didn't affect my property value. It kept ticking upwards at the same rate it has for years.
There was plenty of space out there and its a suburb. Traffic wasn't a mess at that point. The proposed area is close to a pinch point in traffic already.
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Old 07-30-2010, 08:25 AM
 
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If I am right on the location, it is Yale unde I10 and Washington? By that old purple furniture shop?

That is a one lane road going south. Thay will really have to make some road changes. where the road dips under the RR tracks, that area floods.....

Wal Mart is really evil. This is not the right location for them.....
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Old 07-30-2010, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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^^You are correct, just North of there. Across the street from Dirt Bar
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