What do you mean, the majority of UH lives outside the loop! Duh!! haha (commuter school joke, please no wadded panties)
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NopeâŠlived on, or a mile from campus, for 20 years but started out in the burbs
You live near UH now? Perfect, time for you to invest in that entertainment district near campusâŠ$$$
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Not to sound completely oppositon of âONLYâ. An entertainment district should serve all of UH, TSU, The immediate community, and the City of Houston. I donât think incorporating TSU with UH is necessary to accomplish the âDistrictâ plus I donât know the benefits nor the detriment of bringing TSU into the UH system. Pardon my ignorance but to add to that I donât know the impact of losing UH-Victoria to A$M also. What I do know is that TSU is a proud institution with proud supporters and TSU may have bigger ambitions rather than be a part of UH system maybe like the desire to be under the UT system. I donât know so, oh well. However, the aforementioned entities of UH, TSU, Third Ward, and the City of Houston have to be 100% behind backing this type of development/district and is long overdue.
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For anything to survive can they draw people to the area when school is out?
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Then it isnât students itâs the immediate area around UH/TSU.
How do these college towns survive when theyâre ghost towns? Summer students and townies.
Check the Den on non gameday weekends, itâs definitely not filled with students
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Many of them shut down or run limited hours in the summer and just eat pretty fat losses with the expectation that theyâll make up for it the rest of the year.
Hotels in college towns black out the weekend of a home game and require you to rent 2+ nights in a row.
This is why SEC fans drive RVs or campers and sleep at the nearest truck stop.
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There are also SEC fans that just buy or rent a second home where their team is located. Put it on Airbnb the other 341 days of the year for campus visits and the like and it probably winds up cheaper than getting a room.
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Got a question for you.
Is it true that in many SEC towns (perhaps Auburn?) there is a tradition of fans meeting up at the local Waffle House on gameday for breakfast?
I read about that a few years ago.
I learned that the hard way when going to away game a few times.
I got around it by finding a hotel in the nearest city or town and then drive in the day of the game.
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In my experience itâs less a formalized tradition and more about the fact that Waffle House just feels like the move in those situations a lot of the time; when youâve been driving from Montgomery to Starkville or whatever you probably want something easy and familiar, quality be damned, and Waffle House checks that box.
Also, if youâve been drinking heavily the night before, Waffle House is great for nursing a hangover in a place where you might feel less guilty about painting a toilet or sink if you have to.
Life in the big cityâŠ
I work at a beautiful campus in the suburbs of Raleigh and an employee was carjacked in the parking garage last yearâŠ
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Thatâs probably just every SaturdayâŠ
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Yâall would be shocked at how often banks get robbed in general.
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Yeah, especially if itâs the same one in three months.
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If you want to see an awesome example of a âtraditional campusâ think Ohio State. Columbus Ohio is a broke down decrepit rust belt town. You go through town and it isnât much to look at and thenâŠits ⊠OZ! The EMERALD CITY! OSU is basically a city within a city!! If you went there you would never have to leave campus. And its BIG!
I can see UH changing toward that type of campus, but it will still have to expand. The difference being to build the neighborhood up with the school.
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Main question is where UH is going to expand to? Thereâs already plenty of plans to take the parking lots to the north and south and put academic buildings/garages on them, but what else? Main campuses foot print is ~894 acres, with the amount of parking lots dramatically shrinking, where do we expand after that?
University Oaks? unlikely, too many UH affiliated live there and likely area for frat houses.
Scott to 45? Thatâs a good 89 acres of land across the street from main campus. Likely the main piece of land UH board or regents is eyeing in the next couple decades.
Will we ever cross to the other side of Scott Street, or even the gulf freeway? The former seems more likely than the later, but who knows that land might already be developed by the time UH needs to expand again, and you know what that means? If you canât build out, build up.
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I always thought UH could do something along Scott
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