Reimagining the Civic Commons with Carol Coletta

2018 certainly brought plenty of changes to the city of Houston. If you are a Houston Heights resident like me, you may have seen my ad and article on the year of changes we experienced in this neighborhood alone—all of which really call now more than ever for a knowledgeable, experienced realtor. Having lived here for over 20 years, I have enjoyed seeing so many of the positive changes, like the dining options that continue to grow and which I add to my ongoing list. There are always going to be the occasional bittersweet turn of events though. As one example, one of my favorite local haunts, Obsidian Theater, is moving from its longtime home at 3522 White Oak to MATCH theater due in large part to the rent increase in their White Oak space.

This got me thinking about how rising property values don’t really impact everyone equally, which in turn, brought my mind back to Carol Coletta’s lecture at the Kinder Institute Forum a few months ago. Carol Coletta is a researcher and author on urban sociology who specializes in a concept she calls the “Civic Commons,” which is the urban space that we all share on a day-to-day basis. Coletta tends to believe that those spaces are diminishing at an unfortunate rate, and I have to agree. She opened with a poignant quote, “You can’t feel them if you can’t see them.”

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Buying or selling a home or just want to know more about the Civic Commons? Give me a call at 713.829.3052 or email me at cynthia@cynthiamullins.com.

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