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Originally Posted by llamaorama
59 is nice now but it won't be in the future. I just live in this area because I got a good deal on an apartment, but I don't love it.
It's so strange how behind the trees up 1314 and the GP there are miles and miles of trailer slums. These poor areas don't have municipal services and look dirty. Unlike the original section of Kingwood which preserved the trees and was neatly planned, the current McMansion and cheapo 'starter home' growth doesn't. Something about this place just makes me sour. It's still white trash here too. Last month some guy shot his girlfriend in my apartment complex and I see police cars with flashing lights at night way too often.
Some tilt-wall office buildings(do you believe that rendering?) won't add anything to the area. There won't be enough jobs or residents to support ground floor retail or things like that. The area doesn't have the population or demographics to fill out the existing Valley Ranch shopping center as it is, which already lost a couple stores that had barely opened.
Oil is going to stay too cheap for stuff like this and Generation Park, IMO. Typical Houston.
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What part of town do you live? Valley Ranch right now has the same crappy stores and restaurants you can find in nearby Humble and that is on the way home (from town) for most people in the area. Plus Porter and New Caney are straight out of deliverance. Ever been to that Walmart? Truck nuts and meth. If they were to develop that area as shown in that post, that would be something but no one is going to go out of there way for a Hobby Lobby.
Here in Kingwood, I think a lot of people here are jonesing for a cool place nearby that isn't the Woodlands or town. They just don't want it in Kingwood.