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It's interesting how tearing down the Bayou Park apartments would likely halve the number of units available in that location. Also what kind of grocery store and retail are they going to build there? A Kroger, HEB, and Whole Foods are nearby already and those are the only chains there are now. Strip malls are dying out these days- are people in the area going to support amazing trendy new places like a jimmy johns, a seasonal tax preparer, maybe a nail salon? Randalls is slowly going away and Fiesta isn't going to fit in at that location. My prediction- they build a tower and tear down the apartments, then the business cycle goes in a downward direction and 10 years later its another empty lot like the others in that part of town. It's a vertical cul de sac surrounded by empty space that will ultimately be about as dense as an equivalent part of Katy or Cypress, so much for urbanity inside the loop.

I get more excited when multiple townhomes replace a single nasty old house on a lot with junked cars. The more fine-grained parts of town will over time become much more attractive and desirable because the entire neighborhood isn't being speculatively demolished and then left fallow for decades at random.