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Affirmative action…Uptown style

Share this story: Affirmative Action was meant to re-dress past and present discrimination… to make sure government contracts were shared with folks who were historically shut out, disadvantaged. Today, government agencies fall all over themselves to boast about just how[…..]

Getting a piece of the pie

Share this story: Every day taxpayers are learning new bombshells about the stink surrounding the proposed Uptown bus project. Last week it was word Uptown planned to eliminate critical turn lanes at Westheimer and San Felipe… promising to strangle traffic[…..]

DA should make Uptown wait on construction

Share this story: The Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirms it is investigating whether Uptown violated the Texas Open Meetings Act. The criminal complaint filed months ago by Dolcefino Consulting on behalf of property owners, alleges Uptown officials violated state[…..]

More Uptown board members cash in

Share this story: Kendall Miller is cashing in, AGAIN. Another company linked to the Uptown Chairman has just sold property back to Uptown. The purchase price is $1.9 million dollars. Now add the deal in January, another $1.5 million dollars.[…..]

Putting the cart before the horse

Share this story: Uptown has bought only eight properties for their controversial plan to tear up and widen Post Oak for that exorbitantly expensive and unwanted bus lane project. Just 8 of the 39 properties needed. So why is the[…..]

Want a good laugh about Uptown?

Share this story: Take a look at the website for Uptown www.uptown-houston.com, and you’ll see their 2015 written promise about the purchase of $47 million dollars in right of way needed to tear up and widen Post Oak Blvd. If[…..]

Uptown boss cashes in on bus project

Share this story: Kendall Miller is the Chairman of the Uptown Management District and since 2013 has been leading the charge to tear up Post Oak for a controversial bus project. He recommended federal money be put into the bus[…..]

Why was Uptown Dinerstein deal kept secret?

Share this story: Uptown has only completed a small fraction of the controversial real estate deals needed to tear up and widen Post Oak Blvd. A review of the only six transactions show most of them have links to officials[…..]

Uptown breaks promise to taxpayers

Share this story: Uptown is spending tens of millions of your dollars to buy real estate right of way for their plan to eventually tear up and then widen Post Oak Blvd. for a controversial bus project. Dolcefino Consulting has[…..]

Dinerstein traffic study exposed

Share this story: Homeowners in Uptown are demanding the City of Houston reject a traffic study used to justify a massive 40 story apartment skyscraper planned for the corner of one of the most congested intersections in the crowded Galleria.[…..]