Now here’s an interesting idea. Shout out to our Cyclone friends for having a vision.
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Great ideas but they can because:
Wake Forest can because:
Tennessee can because:
Us will be a bit more challenging…
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I agree. I almost put in there that we are pretty geographically challenged in this regard. But, who knows? Someone with a vision, who can frame the project correctly to get some support from the City and/or County, maybe something can get done. That whole area is already almost completely unrecognizable from when I was a student there. All it takes are dollars and time.
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with UH, it will take more than dollars and time, unless dollars are spent on “political inducement”.
We have politicians who publicly voice their opinion that they do not want the 3rd ward area around UH to change.
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Sad as it is to say, that’s probably true.
And that continues to limit our campus life.
Cullen and I were in accord in that.
INDEED, that is the biggest hindrance to anything ressembling what these schools are doing. The City of Houston has done nothing in that direction.
I really think “mixed-use stadium districts” (be they collegiate or professional) are a largely a crock. It works for the Braves specifically because they have 40,000 people coming into the suburb where they host games 81 times a year with the explicit intent to spend. I don’t think that, for example, the Texans (much less the Coogs) could replicate that.
It’s also worth pointing out in the geography discussion that UNC is building their “stadium district” two miles north of the Dean Dome. Within roughly that same radius, UH has EaDo and Midtown, both of which will vastly outcompete anything we could attempt to put together. Downtown isn’t much farther away.
(Eventually midtown is gonna start expanding to the other side of 288 and make all of this moot.)
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The Guardians’ stadium in Cleveland has a decent little nightclub collection next to it.
As I understand, though, that isn’t necessarily a stadium district as such. Just happens to be between Downtown Cleveland and the complex that hosts a combined 122 major sporting events annually + playoffs and other events like concerts. Good real estate for a bar.
Because there is racial history. Third Ward and Fith Ward are historically (and still predominantly) black areas by design and by institution. It’s not fair to the black people that have resided in those areas to be forced out because white people now value said area. However, Third Ward is changing anyway, and the gentrification that occurred in Midtown is bleeding into the other side of 288.
With that said, by the time Third Ward is fully gentrified (at least north of Old Spanish Trail), it’s not going to be “University of Houston campus district”. What it WILL be is a full-on residential area largely comprised of houses that resemble Rice Village/West U with townhouses closer to the downtown area.
The demographic of people that are going to be able to afford Real Estate there are not going to want a bunch of nightclubs and bars all over the place.
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