/u/KantonL - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/u-kantonl/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:27:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 /u/KantonL - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/u-kantonl/ 32 32 103504436 Is there any effort being made in Houston to get rid of all the surface parking? https://houstonnewmedia.org/is-there-any-effort-being-made-in-houston-to-get-rid-of-all-the-surface-parking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-there-any-effort-being-made-in-houston-to-get-rid-of-all-the-surface-parking Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:27:56 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=9f62693210ab709c1d38f5f79a0b6957

Like, I don't get it. Houston is a pretty wealthy city, downtown properties should be worth a lot of money. But 50% of Houston's downtown is surface parking lots, not even multi-level parking garages or underground parking. Why doesn't anyone just buy the (mostly empty) surface parking lots and build housing or something else on top of it? I have looked at rents and apartment prices in Houston and it is expensive AF, so there seems to be a shortage of decent housing near downtown. Is it somehow forbidden to build something on surface parking lots or why does no one do it?

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