It really has been. I'm excited to hear what they add to the complex. Last I heard, it was going to be a huge Party City next to Best Buy.
I lived on the corner of Cobblestone and plantation, one block north of Overcup. We had the biggest magnolia tree in Houston, not verified but i have been in Houston for 29 years and never seen a bigger one, still there and twice as big now. Were you East or West of Gessner? You are about 7 years older than me but my sister was born in '74.
That's where I went to church as a kid. I always found it hilarious that once I moved out to Cypress, to go to church each Sunday, I'd have to pass the strip club!