I know what COCS can do with the old Macy's!
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Last: 14 days ago by woodiewood1
It's gonna be the rec center.
Here's an idea... take the L, admit it was a misstep, sell, put the money back in the public coffers for next year, lower my taxes, and generally stay out of speculative private affairs.
Alas, hubris doesn't leave room for such pragmatism.
Alas, hubris doesn't leave room for such pragmatism.
Let it be the convention center they are dying to build and they can add a hotel in the parking lot. Of course the circus people may not like it.
We can't lose the circus!!! How will we know when it's going to rain???
ChampsAg said:
We can't lose the circus!!! How will we know when it's going to rain???
i laughed way too hard at this
dubi said:
You laugh, but I would so live there!
nthomas99 said:
Here's an idea... take the L, admit it was a misstep, sell, put the money back in the public coffers for next year, lower my taxes, and generally stay out of speculative private affairs.
Alas, hubris doesn't leave room for such pragmatism.
YMCA
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You laugh, but I would so live there!
Me too!
dubi said:
Great Idea. Should we be expecting a purchase offer from a private rertirment home company this week?
Rex Racer said:dubi said:
You laugh, but I would so live there!
prop me up in a Bennigan's when I die
cypress-ag said:
Let it be the convention center they are dying to build and they can add a hotel in the parking lot. Of course the circus people may not like it.
By circus people, did you mean the city council or did you have someone else in mind? ...
Why not move everyone who voted for it move their offices there until it is sold at break even or better?
TXAGBQ76 said:
Why not move everyone who voted for it move their offices there until it is sold at break even or better?
Build the mayor an apartment there.
There you go, even better yet!
$7 MILLION dollar mistake and the city manager who vetted the deal and told the mayor and council it was a good deal still has his job.
time to DOGE the COCS clown show
TXAGBQ76 said:
Why not move everyone who voted for it move their offices there until it is sold at break even or better?
This - can't imagine how much city hall property is worth.
TyHolden said:TXAGBQ76 said:
Why not move everyone who voted for it move their offices there until it is sold at break even or better?
This - can't imagine how much city hall property is worth.
It needed to be built there because eyeballs. Nobody can see us if we put on city land by the police station! We can't walk to Chili's and Torchy's from there!!!
TXAGBQ76 said:
Why not move everyone who voted for it move their offices there until it is sold at break even or better?
I don't believe any are still in office,
That's always an issue in a local politics....there really is no accountability for asinine decisions especially with two term limits.
All is fine, but to me any purchase over a million or two that is not targeted for supplying the citizens with essential services should be voted on by the taxpayers even before an outside study is conducted and paid for.
Ummmm…. Nichols is no longer in office woodie?
When did that happen?
When did that happen?
I plan on voting against incumbents who decided to turn Northgate into an area with downtown high-rises without any public discussion. This Macy's debacle is has the same concepts as this Northgate issue - do what I want without any feedback from constituents because I'm on city council.
One caveat - the challengers must have sensible economic policies, be good stewards of tax dollars, and communicate with the public on the regular. Especially on big decisions. It's just a nice way of saying if I think you're a democrat hiding behind a nonpartisan election system I will not vote for you. Why do I say that? Just look 90 miles to the west where it's all under democratic control. A $4M mistake is a rounding error. They make $40M and $400M mistakes on the regular and are very corrupt while doing so.
One caveat - the challengers must have sensible economic policies, be good stewards of tax dollars, and communicate with the public on the regular. Especially on big decisions. It's just a nice way of saying if I think you're a democrat hiding behind a nonpartisan election system I will not vote for you. Why do I say that? Just look 90 miles to the west where it's all under democratic control. A $4M mistake is a rounding error. They make $40M and $400M mistakes on the regular and are very corrupt while doing so.
Hornbeck said:
Ummmm…. Nichols is no longer in office woodie?
When did that happen?
You're correct, I was thinking of the current council members and not the mayor,
TAMU1990 said:
I plan on voting against incumbents who decided to turn Northgate into an area with downtown high-rises without any public discussion. This Macy's debacle is has the same concepts as this Northgate issue - do what I want without any feedback from constituents because I'm on city council.
One caveat - the challengers must have sensible economic policies, be good stewards of tax dollars, and communicate with the public on the regular. Especially on big decisions. It's just a nice way of saying if I think you're a democrat hiding behind a nonpartisan election system I will not vote for you. Why do I say that? Just look 90 miles to the west where it's all under democratic control. A $4M mistake is a rounding error. They make $40M and $400M mistakes on the regular and are very corrupt while doing so.
The problem with Northgate high rise development is that except for the condos at the old city hall, every high rise development was a transaction between the property owner and the high rise developer, Not sure how the city could stop the development without facing many lawsuits and not sure what the public could do or even should be able to do?
If I was an owner of a group of old fourplexes in the northgate area that were built in the 1960s and someone offered me 10+ million for the property, I would just ask, where do I sign,
I don't like it either, but we can expect the high rises will continue to extend down Boyett and other streets northward over the next few decades,
Normandy Square apartments, my first place to live as a student, has been vacant and looking like it's ready for demo any time now.
I would not be surprised to see a new development there.
I would not be surprised to see a new development there.
maroon barchetta said:
Normandy Square apartments, my first place to live as a student, has been vacant and looking like it's ready for demo any time now.
I would not be surprised to see a new development there.
Over the past decade a lot of those dwellings in Northgate needed to be demolished, I have been in many that had just uninsulated concrete block walls with the electricity run on the inside in plastic wire channels,
Would zoning stop that?
TAMU1990 said:
Would zoning stop that?
Stop what?
woodiewood1 said:TAMU1990 said:
Would zoning stop that?
Stop what?
Development of high rises at Northgate?
High rises at Northgate are not a bad thing. More walking to class and less traffic congestion around campus is nice.
Let me know when that "less traffic congestion around campus" starts.
maroon barchetta said:
Let me know when that "less traffic congestion around campus" starts.
We'll see.
Perhaps the more accurate thing to say was less congestion AWAY from campus. The more students who live nearby, the fewer that need to drive to campus.
maroon barchetta said:woodiewood1 said:TAMU1990 said:
zoneWould zoning stop that?
Stop what?
Development of high rises at Northgate?
It could but since the zones NG-1, NG-2 and NG-3 currently allow high rises, I bet if the city was to change the zoning to not allow high rises it would go to court and be a big legal mess,
I doubt both cities don't want a change as the old rental properties valued at a few huncred thousand of real property value and no BPP now are being converted to tens of millions of taxable real j property and BPP with the high rises,
Everything is about power and money anymore,
Rex Racer said:maroon barchetta said:
Let me know when that "less traffic congestion around campus" starts.
We'll see.
Perhaps the more accurate thing to say was less congestion AWAY from campus. The more students who live nearby, the fewer that need to drive to campus.
There are eleventy-billion electric scooters now. They ain't walking anywhere.