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Old 02-17-2008, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Gangs.Lots of them.

Those people that remember when it was good are getting up there in age. People willing to brave the great unknown and start gentirifcation are single and 30ish at the most. And that age group has never known Sharpstown to be any different than it has been in the past 15 years.
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Old 02-17-2008, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I don't see gentrification in Sharpstown for a very long time. Most of the areas that are gentrifing right now don't have the problems Sharpstown does. Stigmas take a long time to get over. Heck, very few will venture north of I-10 for the deals over there, and those are zoned to SBISD.
Only the apartments and some areas around Sharpstown Mall are bad. The single-family homes are great and property values/home prices have been rising there.
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Old 02-18-2008, 09:02 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Only the apartments and some areas around Sharpstown Mall are bad. The single-family homes are great and property values/home prices have been rising there.
The houses are perfect for teardowns or restoration. The Sussex Towers and the Conquistador are early examples of a condo movement in Houston; they were ahead of its time. Sharp wanted to build more but it was the wrong time.

The Mall is a collection of additions. I'd say tear down the second floor. Is Macy's going to tear down and rebuild? Maybe Metronational might be interested in the mall. Memorial City was the same way in 2000.
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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What are you saying? Make Houston as sprawly as the North Dallas suburbs, Atlanta, DC, or Los Angeles? We're trying to stay in the middle--not too dense, not too spacious, just right.
DC? Are you talking about NOVA and the Maryland Suburbs? Because DC itself is much more dense than Houston.
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Old 02-18-2008, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Probably the Northern Virginia and Maryland suburbs, because DC is hella dense.
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:55 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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DC? Are you talking about NOVA and the Maryland Suburbs? Because DC itself is much more dense than Houston.
Yes. Like DC, Chicagoland is also sprawl--dense city with sprawling suburbs. Sprawl ordinarily refers to suburban growth.

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Those people that remember when it was good are getting up there in age. People willing to brave the great unknown and start gentirifcation are single and 30ish at the most. And that age group has never known Sharpstown to be any different than it has been in the past 15 years.
I wonder when it will start. I grew up at the end of Sharpstown's popularity and remember the beginning of it's decline around the time when Memorial City opened. When the renovated MC opened, it shifted the shopping area of West Houston from West Oaks to MC. It also attracted some business from Sharpstown.
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Old 02-19-2008, 07:11 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Yes. Like DC, Chicagoland is also sprawl--dense city with sprawling suburbs. Sprawl ordinarily refers to suburban growth.
Well honestly, every city is like this than. Including New York. San Francisco's suburbs are like this as well.
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Old 02-19-2008, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Southeast Texas
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Which is why I wonder why people seem to act like only certain cities have sprawl. All metropolitan areas are sprawling.
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Old 02-19-2008, 09:34 AM
 
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Everything outside downtown is sprawl!
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