They did back in the 80s. Likely torn down now.
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The master plan shows UH owning land on north side of Cullen up to I45. That used to be 3rd Ward housing back in the day. Scott to Leek street. Would be eye opening and great first appearance to the campus to have Greek housing there, north of McDonalds and first street off Cullen is Leek Street. Massive transformation to when I was there in the 80’s.
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Are you referring to this or a different picture boundary ?
If so, the land east of the RR Tracks was the old Schlumberge site. and was acquired in 2009.
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How about down to the bayou, is that new?
Could the campus expand south of Schlumberge down I45?
I think those properties were acquired around the same time. The 43 acre site off
of MLK where the medical college is now housed.
I suppose the campus could be expanded going more south on 45. Or going the other direction and acquire more property west of the 74 acre Schlumberge site
towards the tracks. But having a train track campus boundary is kinda undesirable imho.
You could make it a positive with elevated walkways over the tracks and train parties to Galveston.
I think there are mostly warehouses over there now.
Did someone mention train tracks?
Come on now. Having a train opens up all kinds of possibilities.
All aboard?
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Yea, I remember coming down Cullen from the freeway and seeing into peoples houses.
It’s a lot of tracks there, a railyard, and looks like there is waste water processing plant to the right of the tracks ? 
Probably not good direction to grow to.
Those are likely water clarifiers. They pump in nearby water and clean it for industrial or commercial uses. Water sanitation systems are more elaborate with specific auxiliary systems that sanitize waste water.
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That rail yard is called old south yard. The houston belt and terminal used to own it. Now Warren Buffet owns it with his BNSF railroad.
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Well, we are already there. With land all the way to the bayou it looks like it will be something.
The tracks do narrow down by the UH rec center.
The land by the bayou is the med school… or bayou oaks not sure what you’re looking at
So, you want the frats to be next to UH police station? With all of their tomfoolery?
There are ways around that…not that anybody on on here would do it…snark
Just dreaming here but the campus can grow east of the track and south of 45 if three bridges/overpasses are constructed. The first and most northern is a tangent from the campus loop may require the destruction of the commercial property that the The Nook Cafe occupies. A bridge over Spur 5 and the tracks constructed along with acquiring warehouses over on the other side and converted to Greek Housing and other opportunities.
The second bridge in an extension of University Dr. over Spur 5 and the tracks to the the UH Technology Bridge campus that would be an ideal direct vehicular access to that portion of the campus.
The third bridge would extend Wheeler Ave to fly over Spur 5 and the narrow tracks and touches the most southern tip of the UH Technology Bridge campus and flies over the Bayou and terminates at 90/OST. Here the Merichem properties can be bulldozed and student apartments can be erected at Wheeler and OST on the north and south side of OST.
Again just dreaming but all this will required UH and/or university driven entities acquiring a lot of property plus TX dot, state, and city infrastructure investments for the betterment of UH that historically been slow to develop.
Yeah, it’s fun to speculate what UH will look like in the next 100 years; even though we will never see it.
I doubt college universities will exist in 100 years
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The university will be willing to do very little to create Greek housing, nor should they.
I think a traditional Greek row would be great, but the school ain’t gonna do it and the fraternities and sororities are relatively poor compared to schools where it’s done well
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That and inner loop real estate is 2-3x the cost of real estate in rural SEC universities