steve-o

I remember a friend of mine though, who had a friend when he worked in real finance, as opposed to what we have here aside from a few deals, who made a very good living shorting companies that were in the midst of building a great new headquarters. It seems, about a quarter or two after the move, and for a bit before hand, that board members and executives become entranced with the idea of a big shiny building..Which isn't their business...

Here is a link to the column.

Wow. Interesting. Seems more than a little odd for a columnist to use up an entire column to repsond to criticism of a previous column. Funny that he doesn't bother addressing any of the critiques of his points in the original article. I guess, in the end, he was kinda complimentary of the forum as a whole.

I know I might be in the minority in this, but it's not really the design of the house on Bunting I have a problem with, it's the scale. I personally love a neighborhood with a wide variety of housing styles, especially when the the homes span many different periods. One of my favorite streets in FW is Meadowbrook Blvd. between Beach and Oakland. It's such a shame E. FW is so overlooked!!!! This street has homes representing almost 100 years of middle-class residential architecture. All built next to one another, in a seemingly random manner. Last time I drove down the street there were several new ones built in that wonderful cookie-cutter subdivison style, yet they seem to blend right in. But with such a wide mix of homes, I can't think of any that are so out of scale it looks out of place. This has made the blvd into an incredibly beautiful and interesting street. So I usually have no problem with someone building a design that is different than the rest of the neighborhood. To me it's not what you build, but how you build it.

$250-$300,000 was mentioned but I have no idea if that is accurate. I live in the Markeen, which is converting to condo, and those will be selling for $135,000 if interested.

I think the reason the independent venues exist where they do or existed where they did, still comes down to economics, they’ve existed where they have simply because it’s been economically feasible for them to do so, nothing more. If you jacked the rent up several hundred percent, as land values have in some places, they’d be gone before you could grab the door handle. There are still plenty of places on the fringes for them if they want to move just a bit, if their following is as loyal as the story indicates, then a move of a dozen blocks shouldn’t be much of a change.