Hi, I'm Scott Dailey and I love exploring the abandoned, quirky, and interesting pieces of the built environment. Thanks for joining me.
Architect, Historian
Topics Covered: Abandoned Places, Obscure History, Architecture, Texas, Houston, Infrastructure
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Texas hates repurposing. They just take beautiful prairie land and destroy it to build new while letting the established neighborhoods rot.
Why Dallas? Austin maybe but Dallas? What do you do once you get there? Walk?
Lower the square foot taxes and Voila.
Real Estate appreciation in value. It's crazy
Why has the city not ordered that it be torn down? I had to walk past the eyesore for years when I worked downtown. Visitors have received a very bad impression of the area.
Big Waste! The high speed train will not pay for itself.
Stupid No one from Dallas wants to travel to Huston. The flights from DFW to Huston are fast and minimal and cheap $66 for a round trip. $10 Billion high speed train that $$$ costs $500-$600 to ride when you can fly for $66 is crazy stupid. Train delay train $1 Million up keep no fright this is yo $$$ expensive to move letters or fish or crab when ground is $200 for a Simi 18 wheeler is not cost effective. For all Amtrak going bankrupt with out federal subsidies Get A Life.
Houston and Dallas < 60min @ $64 flight. < 3 hr @ $13 drive at night. Bullet train in flood zone < 2 hr @ $400-$500 and to $$ expensive for freight ops. $5 Billion cost to build and $3 Million yearly maintenance. Bankrupt in 4 years. lights today from Houston and Dallas are $ looser and this is not a snow bird or vacation spot or high traffic zone.
This Mall is called Greenspoint mall or a the locals call it GunsPoint. I've witnessed the swat team come out twice to remove Mail shooters. My mom knew the security guard who was found stabbed and thrown in a dumpster. This is not an area anyone truly wants to be in.
What a waste of money! In this economy the people can't afford it
Thanks for the update another problem which plaques the Greenspoint area for development is the high crime rate. This area has been nicknamed “gunspoint”, no joke search it.
Thanks for the update another problem which plaques the Greenspoint area for development is the high crime rate. This area has been nicknamed “gunspoint”, no joke search it.
At 2:28 you pronounce the name of the store, Palais Royal, as puh-LAY roy-ĂL (like Casino Royale). The correct pronunciation is PĂ-lay ROY-al (with royal pronounced as in English).
2024... Not so much.
You fell to say pushing the poor our.
I've observed these hotels a few times while visiting Vegas. That area is VERY seedy. Furgeson's is a bright spot but there's really nothing in there that would compel one to spend that much time there. It's just a run down, dangerous and depressing area. Homeless, drunks, drifters wander the streets. You feel unsafe. If you revitalize that area, it's going to turn into another Santa Monica, with "normal" people with money visiting and derelicts and the aggressive mentally ill hassling everyone. Vegas has changed a LOT.
2yrs later nothing 😅😅😅😅
I want to relocate from NY to Port Arthur to work in LNG. Any advice?
Personally I would live in west Beaumont, but go explore and see what you like!
@@ScottDaileyKZread thanks a lot! But how about the air quality? Is it that bad as the news media keeps propagating?
When?
High Speed Rail Line is never coming.
In other words, it will remain vacant.
Ohhh its a FAIRYLAND all right..... This was a great place growing up, in the 70,s and 80,s Now its all Koreans and Democrats ......Even the Jews ran away
excellent video
2:28 Palais Royal Your pronunciation is HILARIOUS!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Haha I thought that's how you said it!
@@ScottDaileyKZread not even close! 😁🤣🤣
@@ScottDaileyKZreadfor starters, there’s no O in it, it sounds like you are slipping one in at the beginning. Google palais royal pronunciation. Google at least has the Palais correct. Royal is literally pronounced Roy-al, But it’s not a hard pronunciation, it’s got a drawl to the Roy-al. EDIT:::, actually Google’s pronunciation according to my wife is actually very close to how she pronounced it when she worked there.
I think if it could have been pulled off it would bigger than it is today which is hard to imagine since Dallas stretches pretty far and only keeps growing
They should be able to rent rooms for less than the corporate crooks on the strip charge for parking & resort fee. If restored nicely, and the neighborhood cleaned up and made safe overall, I'd think these joints would have a good shot at success.
the areas these things are in are absolutely horrible.
lol how is forest hills "hidden"?
I subscribed. The presentation was superb, the video, the narration everything. And concise.
thanks!
It’s most likely buried in some 1%’ers portfolio or their kids trust fund. “Those People” don’t share or feel the magic of Fremont Street like you do, to them it’s just another bean for their bean counters to count.
bubBUBS !
Would have been interesting to se that place in its prime. WWII vets wirh youg family in tow, pulling up in a fresh off the assembly line Packard.
I grew up in Houston before 610 was built and remember many homes were bought up to build it. From the get go many builders came into Houston and built where ever and in my opinion they screwed Houston. Especially the flooding problem as well as a vital transportation system. Very poor planning by the city it's self. The reason I say this is I do know back in the 70's and even perhaps 60's out at the University of Houston they taught forecast of growth in the southern part of the US. Also there were flooding problems back then. Due to Houston becoming a sanctuary city crime has also escalated. In growing up it saddens me to see what has happened to Houston.
I miss Leo and Willey’s
Awesome job Scott! reminds me of the last hotel in "No Country For Old Men". Looking forward to your next one!
Scott! That area is so sketch now! I’m glad you didn’t get attacked by a crackhead. I’m sure Siegel has plans to make it into a big bagel halfway house.
Sad that a city so busy as Las Vegas still has clusters of decay like this so close to the heart of it all... Especially when the need for affordable housing in the city is probably at an all time high!
It would be great for single occupant apartments!!
Ive heard from numerous people that there are gators in the trinity. And big ones. Ive seen quite a few boar on the fortworth side by Euless. Not sure if their healthy drinking that water though.
Scott, this was lovely. Your explanations have made me look at it in a different light. Next time I walk through it, I will appreciate it differently.
i used to go to this mall as a kid, spent many many holiday shopping times here. as a local theyve been talking about this train for YEARS. well see
I live in Nassau County and once took the LIRR to Forest Hills specifically to take a walk through the area. It was an afternoon in early autumn and the golden light only enhanced the beauty of these streets. It was a magical world. You have to see it yourself to believe it!
Japan has been doing this for decades. If one country can benefit from bullet trains, is the USA. We have the space but have greedy goverment who is too dense to understand how much better this would be for the country, especially a place like TX.
Wow, thanks for sharing this history. I saw the second lock while mountain biking at Goat Island Preserve a few years back, and I had no idea what it's purpose was until now.
"Just one more lane!"
The story of the Texas Gulf coast is of the haves and have nots. The COBRA or coastal barrier reinsurance act is a suspiciously irregular policy. Look at its coverage map.
CONCRETE, CONCRETE, CONCRETE......AND THEY WONDER WHY WE FLOOD HERE SO BAD! DUHHHHH
#20 I think was demolished recently. Latest sat images don't show anything there.
A year later... They're still there.
I grew up in Spring riiiight on the very edge of Harris county that bordered Montgomery in the early 2000's and never heard about this so I asked my mom about it and she said "Some things people *still* don't like to talk about"
This project is about to cost 1trillion dollars and take a min of 30 yrs to finish 😫. MY LORD
I am a fishing vessel crew when my ship encountered typhoon my ship anchored there at midway island.
Aged like milk