I just wanna say I think it’s really funny that this thread has outlived two of 1927’s accounts
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Lol it’s so funny you mention that…
Had a former co-worker from Georgia tell me that Texas is not “the South”.
He came here thinking it would be like Georgia, Alabama, etc, but ended up finding it totally different (aka not what he was expecting), so he requested to be transferred out to Mississippi, which is more “true southern” than TX, apparently.
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If we go off of a book titled “Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America” by Stephen L Klineberg of Rice U’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, then yes, UH’s current demographics reflect that of the city’s.
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Kids that like to party HARD & choose schools based on football game atmosphere & tailgates.
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Wow.
And I’ve always thought that St.Louis and Kansas City were more MIDWESTERN than Southern.
Having lived near Kansas City, Kansas for a year, that’s how they felt to me.
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I still don’t know what they are. But anyways, those are the type that you want at UH?
Could it be that these type of schools accept the majority of that type of demographic on purpose? @3rdWardCoog2
My bad, I said Missouri. He went to Biloxi, Mississippi.
Ah, got it. That makes more sense.
Yeah, it doesn’t get more “Deep South” than that!
Texas is a bit different from the so-called “Deep South,” even the Carolinas.
Still Southern though.
I would say TCU and SFA probably have the most “the south” culture of any Texas school
A&M isn’t necessarily “the south”, but the military culture that surrounds it adds heavy to its conservative nature which blends in with “the south”. A&M does have those kids though.
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Like it needs to be twice as big, from RR tracks on south side to past Channel 8 on west side to I45 on east side to Scott on north side. You can take up big parking lots with garages but they must be asthetically like the rest of campus with shops and retail on first floor, and leave green space for tailgaiting. I would not mind elevated walkways like ISU, connecting garages to the stadium.
if the UH and TSU areas showed that knocking down and rebuilding would make developers a good ROI anytime in the past decades, it woulda been done. there are just too many desirable areas that would give much better returns(i.e. midtown). eventually the area will be redone as even in houston, you start running out of land; but that maybe another 20 years. UH is just not in a good area but no one could have forecasted that in 1927.
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I want kids that will continue to add to the academic competitiveness at UH.
As GPA’s/SAT’s rise, acceptance rates declines, then naturally, the school itself will transform over time.
I don’t want to sacrifice academic merit just so we can get more people at football games in the short term
That is a narrow road for UH to navigate. I myself hate government intervention in most cases. I would rather see independent commercial development. I suspect there are people sitting on real estate by UH, waiting. It doesn’t seem they are interested in developing the area themselves.
Let’s just cut to the chase. You’re talking about the gentrification of third ward.
Even if that was a “goal” to investors, the issue is finding a population of people to fill the inventory.
There are already signs of gentrification as we speak, but as soon as it reaches scale, the value of properties there will start to reach Rice Village/Rice Military pricing, perhaps River Oaks (smaller homes) pricing.
Who’s going to buy those houses? People living in Conroe or Cypress?
I lived in LA for a long time. It was amazing seeing YUPPIES who worked downtown revitalize areas close to downtown.
There is a lot of development of high rise condos and apartments because the real estate is stupid expensive there. They don’t even consider trying to put houses there. Hollywood is doing the same thing and real estate is going up over there too.
Ask yourself this: who wants to spend 4 hours/day sitting on 45 or 69?
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would much rather pay an extra $500 a month, save 4 hours of my life daily, and be around a bunch of amenities, great food, half way decent transportation, etc. than commute from the burbs. I know the Inner Loop is expensive, but it’s probably the best urban area in Texas and well worth the extra cash.
FYI: This is what I’m doing now btw, saving 43 days worth of sitting in traffic a year. Couldn’t be less stressed.
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Unless you plan on putting your kids in private school, then I wouldn’t want to raise a family inside the loop.
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You’re talking about LA tho, bro.
That’s a city ppl actually wanted to be in (at least before 2020).
Houston isn’t exaclty a 1st choice destination, unless you’re retiring.
And it’s gonna get worse the next few yrs with part of I-10 getting completely shut down 