Walmart Supercenter At 111 Yale St.

[RedScare]

Now there's a study the Stop the Heights Walmart folks can really get behind!

[callisthenes]

certainly a stretch to believe

http://blog.chron.co...roups-in-study/

From the article:

<The number of big-box retailers in a community can have social and economic effects that lead to the formation of hate groups, a recent study found…

“We’re not trying to pick on Wal-Mart,” said Goetz. “In this study, Wal-Mart is really serving as a proxy for any type of large retailer.”>

Walmart hate-groups only appeared in the Heights after the Target opened. Hypothesis confirmed!

[RedScare]

...said Stephan Goetz, Penn State professor and the study’s lead author.

I think his next study should focus on the correlation between winning college football programs and pedophilia rates.

[SilverJK]

I'm considering getting PETA involved so that we can effectively cock-block your petition. What is driving this need for eggs in the Heights? How many beta-males does it take to make a quiche?

People Eating Tasty Animals???

cock block all you want, I just want hens.

There is absolutely nothing driving this need other than the desire to be a cool hipster with my own chickens that fertilize my grass and give me "organic yard eggs". (I recognize that I have to put money in the d-bag jar for that) That mixed with the nostalgia of the chickens from my family's farm growing up...

[gazhomme]

cock block all you want, I just want hens.

There is absolutely nothing driving this need other than the desire to be a cool hipster with my own chickens that fertilize my grass and give me "organic yard eggs". (I recognize that I have to put money in the d-bag jar for that) That mixed with the nostalgia of the chickens from my family's farm growing up...

Please...

Every hipster knows that chicken eggs are soooo 2007! I mean, they're probably doing that in Midtown by now! Every blue blooded Heights resident knows that you should be fighting city hall for the right to raise ducks. Have you not seen the price of organic duck eggs at Central Market? You must not be in the right book of the month discussion group. I suggest you tender your resignation and search for one that's slightly ahead of the curve.

Next thing you'll say is that you want to raise pigmy goats...sheesh. (hint, goats out, micro donkeys in)

[samagon]

can the RUDH be considered a hate group?

[RedScare]

can the RUDH be considered a hate group?

Only if they put a bounty on the heads of hispanic jewish murder suspects.

Edited April 12, 2012 by RedScare

[gazhomme]

Only if they put a bounty on the heads of hispanic jewish murder suspects.

My guess is that the victim purchased his drink and Skittles at a mom and pop not a big box.

[samagon]

Please...

Every hipster knows that chicken eggs are soooo 2007! I mean, they're probably doing that in Midtown by now! Every blue blooded Heights resident knows that you should be fighting city hall for the right to raise ducks. Have you not seen the price of organic duck eggs at Central Market? You must not be in the right book of the month discussion group. I suggest you tender your resignation and search for one that's slightly ahead of the curve.

Next thing you'll say is that you want to raise pigmy goats...sheesh. (hint, goats out, micro donkeys in)

The one that's really going to throw the Midtown residents for a loop (since most of them just got their longboards) is that longboards are out, and horses are in.

Edited April 12, 2012 by samagon

[gazhomme]

The one that's really going to throw the Midtown residents for a loop (since most of them just got their longboards) is that longboards are out, and horses are in.

Great. I can see a Midtown dead horse epidemic in the making when they discover that you actually have to maintain something other than your lifestyle and wardrobe. Of course we wise owls in the Heights will start the Heights Horse Rescue squad (funded by generous donations from our neighborhood Walmart) and relocate these noble beasts to the wooded areas of the Heights. (Not to be confused with the Woodland Heights, 'cause that's not really the Heights per the argyle sweater set) Once they're nursed back to health we can ride them on the rails2trails paths until the inevitable factions emerge pitting bikers, hikers, and horseback riders against one another.

All of this because Walmart drove the area to hate and skinheads started raising chickens for their White's Only omelets.

Edited April 13, 2012 by gazhomme

[RedScare]

Target started it.

[Marksmu]

Please...

Every hipster knows that chicken eggs are soooo 2007! I mean, they're probably doing that in Midtown by now! Every blue blooded Heights resident knows that you should be fighting city hall for the right to raise ducks. Have you not seen the price of organic duck eggs at Central Market? You must not be in the right book of the month discussion group. I suggest you tender your resignation and search for one that's slightly ahead of the curve.

Next thing you'll say is that you want to raise pigmy goats...sheesh. (hint, goats out, micro donkeys in)

While I recognize the sarcasm - apparently there is nothing preventing people from having Geese....there is a house at nicholson and 12th - that keeps two geese....they are extremely loud and honk at every single person that passes by on the sidewalk, and about half the people that pass by on the hike and bike trail. If I were that houses neighbors, I would go crazy - those birds are LOUD.

[J008]

While I recognize the sarcasm - apparently there is nothing preventing people from having Geese....there is a house at nicholson and 12th - that keeps two geese....they are extremely loud and honk at every single person that passes by on the sidewalk, and about half the people that pass by on the hike and bike trail. If I were that houses neighbors, I would go crazy - those birds are LOUD.

Sounds like freedom to me.

[SilverJK]

Please...

Every hipster knows that chicken eggs are soooo 2007! I mean, they're probably doing that in Midtown by now! Every blue blooded Heights resident knows that you should be fighting city hall for the right to raise ducks. Have you not seen the price of organic duck eggs at Central Market? You must not be in the right book of the month discussion group. I suggest you tender your resignation and search for one that's slightly ahead of the curve.

Next thing you'll say is that you want to raise pigmy goats...sheesh. (hint, goats out, micro donkeys in)

Actually I'm going to raise this new animal... you've probably never heard of it.

When did longboards become hip? I have heard that every hipster will probably have a penny board by the end of the summer, but that isn't really the same thing. I guess once walmart gets here everyone will be able to afford longboards though, even the poor kids will have some cheap pintail board they can cruise up and down their street on while wearing Faded Glory sandals. That'll stop the hipsters on their penny boards in birkenstocks real quick.

[fwki]

Just so we don't get off topic, geese are to ducks and chickens as Walmart is to Mom and Pops.

[gazhomme]

Target started it.

So Target should be the target because they started it, but instead they target Wal-Mart instead of targeting Target as Target has correctly targeted their target hipster demographic with targeted messaging that deflects them as a target of criticism due to their sleek product design aesthetics.

[gazhomme]

there is a house at nicholson and 12th - that keeps two geese....they are extremely loud and honk at every single person that passes by on the sidewalk,

Crazy-@ss honkeys in the Heights!

[samagon]

Sounds like freedom to me.

Ugh, their smell is not one of freedom.

[Marksmu]

Ugh, their smell is not one of freedom.

No - not it is not.

[mkultra25]

I think his next study should focus on the correlation between winning college football programs and pedophilia rates.

[musicman]

And as for home fashion or work clothes, I'm not going to shop at a big box discounter, no matter how many thin, sexy 17-year-olds they have sporting their wares to energetic pop music. All that gimmickry is just lipstick on a pig. Some people respond to it; that's their problem, not mine.

Niche you and fashion aren't something imaginable to me!

[RedScare]

Looks like the pedestrian friendly density that RUDH demanded is coming to the Walmart neighborhood...

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2012/04/inner-loop-apartments-to-go-up-near-proposed-wal-mart/

...and the RUDH people are COMPLAINING about it!

Just a little more proof...as if we needed any...that they are dishonest in their gripes.

[SilverJK]

HAHAHA, did you read all the people saying the apartments are going to kill the home values in the Heights... gimme a break. This is a rather good location for an apartment complex as there currently isn't much in the immediate surrounding areas. Urbanization!

[samagon]

I love how everyone that responded reads apartments and naturally assumes low income housing.

Edited April 27, 2012 by samagon

[LTAWACS]

as longs as it's not in my back yard... it's irrelevant.

[JJxvi]

Ha. yeah, apartment complexes are going to destroy the area. I live in the Heights. Like right in the middle of the Houston Heights subdivision, in a single family house on a residential lot. There are at least 5 apartment complexes within 2 blocks of my house that are right in the middle of residential blocks similar to mine. They have been there for years and years...

[s3mh]

Ha. yeah, apartment complexes are going to destroy the area. I live in the Heights. Like right in the middle of the Houston Heights subdivision, in a single family house on a residential lot. There are at least 5 apartment complexes within 2 blocks of my house that are right in the middle of residential blocks similar to mine. They have been there for years and years...

I also live within three blocks of an apartment complex in the Houston Heights subdivision. I saw someone from the complex buy drugs from a pusher who drove up in broad daylight while I was walking my child down the street. The complex is filthy and is constantly checkered with red tags from the City.

The apartments proposed on Yale do not bother me except that everyone who has come in after Walmart has been getting a free ride on their traffic impact. If the Orr, Ainbinder and apartment traffic impacts were all considered in a single study, no traffic engineer would have ever been able to sign off on the study without requiring some pretty radical mitigation measures.

[west20th]

I also live within three blocks of an apartment complex in the Houston Heights subdivision. I saw someone from the complex buy drugs from a pusher who drove up in broad daylight while I was walking my child down the street. The complex is filthy and is constantly checkered with red tags from the City.

The apartments proposed on Yale do not bother me except that everyone who has come in after Walmart has been getting a free ride on their traffic impact. If the Orr, Ainbinder and apartment traffic impacts were all considered in a single study, no traffic engineer would have ever been able to sign off on the study without requiring some pretty radical mitigation measures.

Maybe you would be better off focusing your efforts on this complex instead of every new project that comes up.

Edited April 27, 2012 by west20th

[RedScare]

I saw someone from the complex buy drugs from a pusher...

Man, I dig that 70s lingo!

[JJxvi]

Pretty sure this particular development actually involved, gasp, tearing down an old ratty apartment project.