Have a condo across from Stewart Beach, where prior to 2021, would hear police sirens constantly up and down Seawall blvd at night. What has changed over the past few years? Hardly hear any sirens at night and generally seems like the riffraff has been removed. Have they bused all the garbage to blue states? Just curious.

Been constant year round, not just tourist season. Used to watch with binoculars but find myself rather bored.

Uncle Tillman said the hoodrats gotta go!

Two gloves, one cup

Sea Speed said:

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Uncle Tillman said the hoodrats gotta go!

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Probably not too far from the truth.

I work out of galveston and I dont recognize it compared to when I lived there 15 years ago. There is a bunch of money coming in and it seems insanely revitalized, especially the east end.

I had an opportunity to buy one of the buildings downtown back in 2012 or so and I wish I would have put some more urgency behind it. I would have made an absolute killing over the years.

Violent crime in general is in a downward trend, nation-wide. That's probably a big part of it.

East end of Seawall Blvd was just a good spot for general Teenage mischief when I was a Ute. Probably came to be frowned upon with more residential development down there. Or had it actually gotten violent in modern times?

DustysLineup said:

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East end of Seawall Blvd was just a good spot for general Teenage mischief when I was a Ute. Probably came to be frowned upon with more residential development down there. Or had it actually gotten violent in modern times?

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I lived at 1st and strand, about as far east as you can get as a galveston resident, and there was never really any crime to speak of unless you count under age drinking

Yeah, that's all I ever saw. Maybe a little car games. Hanging out on the embankment dranking.


Btw, I don't know if you ever went to Sonny's, but I posted over on the Gulf Coast board that Junior passed away.

Man it has been years and years since I went there. rip.

Have we talked about Margaritaville @ Galvatraz?

https://www.galvnews.com/news/construction-begins-on-margaritaville-resort-near-galvestons-east-beach/article_dfe754b0-7929-5d33-bc37-a7c00a63e4ef.html

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Developers of a $110 million Margaritaville-branded hotel and resort near East Beach appear to be moving ahead, although the status of an accompanying residential component with more than 200 homes still is unknown.

Pile-driving cranes and other construction apparatus arrived in the past week at 317 E. East Beach Drive, signaling the long-rumored project would become a reality.

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Wow I had not looked at maps in a long time and they have built a lot but the best beach access in Galveston used to be down there. None of the public went but loads of the utmb nursing students did. It was always as secluded as you could get on the east end.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VZ5yoBmyMHTn5fGM6

Al Bula said:

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Have we talked about Margaritaville @ Galvatraz?

https://www.galvnews.com/news/construction-begins-on-margaritaville-resort-near-galvestons-east-beach/article_dfe754b0-7929-5d33-bc37-a7c00a63e4ef.html

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Developers of a $110 million Margaritaville-branded hotel and resort near East Beach appear to be moving ahead, although the status of an accompanying residential component with more than 200 homes still is unknown.

Pile-driving cranes and other construction apparatus arrived in the past week at 317 E. East Beach Drive, signaling the long-rumored project would become a reality.

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looks like they're breaking ground soon

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$700M Margaritaville Beach Resort Galveston Set To Break Ground Early This Year

RREAF Holdings, a Dallas-based development firm, is partnering with Innisfree Hotels, an operator of beachfront hotels and resorts in the Southeast, on the $700M project set to break ground early this year and deliver in 2026, according to a news release and RREAF Holdings.
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The developers will also build 278 furnished cottages, ranging from two to six bedrooms, contiguous with the resort site, he said. These will be for sale for north of $2M each, Sowden said.

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https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/hotel/700m-margaritaville-beach-resort-galveston-set-to-break-ground-early-this-year122516-122516?