EpiCentre Houston (Rankin: low income, apartment complexes, hotel)

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

I agree with what Hawk11ns is saying, but as places grow, suburbs get their own suburbs. So traveling into the main city would be a pain. As a result, I feel that several downtowns should be feasible. This even happens in Birmingham...

But this development is only like 5 to 10 minutes for Downtown, Uptown and TMC. It's competing with those sectors and not as a stand alone CBD unlike The Woodlands town center or Greenspoint.

[eric3781]

Originally Posted by Hawk11ns

This is what's wrong with the City of Houston. Instead of focusing on one area of development and growing it organically into the surrounding areas, people want to develop small areas all over the place! For example, you have City Center on the West Side, Houston Pavillions Downtown, and there are talks about an "International Center" next to the new Soccer Dome as well as talks about this Epicentre Houston.

There's nothing wrong with Houston. Just check the video in the OP link. We dominate.

This Epicentre development is an "organic" extension of the Reliant/Med Center/Museum area growth and appears to be a good fit for that area. Memorial City and Town and Country areas are "organically" redeveloping as a result of the mall renovation and Memorial Hermann tower, and CityCentre. That redevelopment will continue "organically" into surrounding areas. The same is true of East End. The market dictates when and where redevelopment will occur.

Houston is too big to have just one area of development that spreads to surrounding areas. I am pleased with the redevelopment going on in older areas of Houston and can't think of a better use for Astroworld than a mixed-use development like this Epicentre. Just my $0.02.

[eric3781]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

I agree with what Hawk11ns is saying, but as places grow, suburbs get their own suburbs. So traveling into the main city would be a pain. As a result, I feel that several downtowns should be feasible. This even happens in Birmingham...

The Galleria is a second downtown.

Westchase is the third.

Energy Corridor is the fourth.

Not necessarily in that order. Any of those individual districts could stomp most of the CBDs in this country.

Any others I left out?

[Black Jack22]

Houstonians love setting themselves up for disappointment by creating threads like this.

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by Black Jack22

Houstonians love setting themselves up for disappointment by creating threads like this.

What do you mean?

[Black Jack22]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

What do you mean?

Earthquest hasn't even been built yet and it may not even get built but you post a thread about another project which hasn't been built yet.

[SouthernBoy205]

I'm not a Houstonian, but I posted it because on another site, I had seen where the development had made recent changes to the website. So I thought I'd create a thread to get more info about the development.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by eric3781

The Galleria is a second downtown.

Westchase is the third.

Energy Corridor is the fourth.

Not necessarily in that order. Any of those individual districts could stomp most of the CBDs in this country.

Any others I left out?

I know it's not in order but Downtown, TMC/Uptown, Greenway Plaza, Westchase, Greenspoint, and Energy Corridor.

[Nairobi]

I hear Greenspoint and I want to barf. And I'm from dat nawf, so that ought to tell you something.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

I hear Greenspoint and I want to barf. And I'm from dat nawf, so that ought to tell you something.

Greenspoint Rd neaar 45 isn't bad. I didn't see the bad parts when I was living on Rankin.