Where is Houston metro expanding? (Beaumont, The Woodlands: insurance, townhouse, movie theater)

[Zoo2000]

School districts do demographic studies to plan for future growth. I live in Lamar consolidated and I am fascinated by the fact that every piece of land between I 10, Simon ton / the Brazos river and Richmond is already accounted for. Johnson already owns some land west of jordan ranch for its next Mpc (fulshear farms) and an area the size of the woodlands centering on Simonton is owned by a development company (Twinwood). At the rate that things have been growing on the west side I would say that the next 15 years are already accounted for, barring anything crazy happening. Check it out: https://www.lcisd.org/about/demographics-reports

I imagine that other school districts do the same thing. I would love to hear from folks in the south and the north to see if there are any other such isd demographic studies with large scale Mpcs planned in their corner of houston.

[Mr. Football]

Houston Metro has expanded immensely in just about every direction. There's been huge expansion over the past 20 years in the Cypress, Tomball, Klein Areas with much more to come in the Northwest quadrant for the foreseeable future as the Grand Parkway will be a massive growth engine.

I recently read that the Cy-Fair area has added more people in the past 17 years than 21 States. Cypress, TX also ranks #9 in the United States for highest per capita income for Urban areas with over 100,000 people.

[Sollaces]

Eventually SH99 will make a loop. I checked the toll authority and their plans and was amazed at how completing that will add so much growth. I'm too lazy to link it but be aware plans are there. The latest section was up to Tomball and of course they had flooding problems with excess runoff. 2016 was not a good year for rain and flooding, especially the west part of town.

[SouthernBoy205]

I can see the growth going all the way to Sealy and to Prairie View.

[SouthernBoy205]

It appears that Dayton is in on the growth. They are planning a 7,000 acre community over there.

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...ity-to-be.html

[Failed Engineer]

Dayton is actually not that far from downtown Houston, but it's hard to wrap around the idea that there is massive growth there. But it is the last quadrant not being built out from the city.

[SpringBrancher]

There is lots of infill development, densifying the loop and west side.

Eado and east of museum district are other growth areas.

As to suburban growth, they are pushing the lake Houston area pretty hard and they say it has a diversified economy up there but I really don't know. All the west side established suburbs still have room to grow and I assume woodlands is still a powerhouse.

NW 290 is held back by lack of offices.

[timtemtym]

I don't know how reliable Houston Agent Magazine is, but the article seemed well written.
https://houstonagentmagazine.com/201...lation-growth/

It predicts growth on the east side. This could be true as industries and logistics expand (nation's largest port?). BUT the east stretch has always seemed kind of a no-man's land and Beaumont/Golden Triangle has always seemed stagnant and regressive. But who knows? It could happen?

Maybe Beaumont's only turn around in it's death spiral could come from Houston's outer growth and it's Lamar University off shoots?

I just don't see it though. To me that has always been hurricane alley...

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by Failed Engineer

Dayton is actually not that far from downtown Houston, but it's hard to wrap around the idea that there is massive growth there. But it is the last quadrant not being built out from the city.

Because of this reason, I definitely see it growing. That area is finally about to start growing.

[texas7]

Originally Posted by Failed Engineer

All of the above. Houston is still downright cheap compared to cities on both coasts and we'll continue to see influxes of people from there. Some will go back because they think Houston sucks but a large percentage of them will stay. Land is there in all directions still to build housing. The SE side will probably run out of room first but places like League City and Dickinson still have a lot of land. Even Friendswood isn't close to being maxed out yet on housing. There is really no shortage of land in any of the other quadrants, and the housing market keeps indicating an abundance of people willing to sacrifice commute for new housing stock.

Friendswood is pretty landlocked. Not a whole lot more they can grow. New roads connecting them to other cities all the time but not so much space left in actual Friendswood.