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  2. In addition to a structural permit purchased yesterday for 1045 Ashland St, the following permits were also purchased: Certificate of compliance Development review Grading and filling permit Details on the permit: Use: 2,571 sf convert residential to restaurant shell 1-1-5-SH-B '15IBC FCC Group: Non-residential alteration As mentioned throughout this topic, a new restaurant is planned for 1045 Ashland St. 608 W 11th St will be used for parking. Camaraderie is restaurant from chef Shawn Gawle. Certificate of compliance Development review Grading and filling permit
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  4. @hindesky if you used the search, you'd see there is a topic for this already. In fact, you've posted about this building on the property in that very topic back in December. The topic is for 608 W 11th St and the adjoining property at 1045 Ashland St, which are both being redeveloped by Re:Vive Development: https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/topic/52465-608-w-11th-st/?do=findComment&comment=689849 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/topic/52465-608-w-11th-st/?do=findComment&comment=693047 @Urbannizer @Triton please merge this with the ongoing topic for 1045 Ashland St and the adjoining property at 608 W 11th St: https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/topic/52465-608-w-11th-st
  5. That whole area was divided by 59. It's still historically old 5th Ward. And you're also forgetting emissions from tires not just exhaust.
  6. I find this fascinating. Dallas may not renew permit for McDonald's drive-thru in an effort to make the area more walkable. The leaders quoted seem like they have made up their minds. City council has final say...this will be interesting to follow. https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2024/03/26/downtown-mcdonalds-drive-thru-permit-debate.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=ae&utm_content=DA&j=34840865&senddate=2024-03-27&empos=p1 Debate over McDonald's drive-thru is actually a debate about future of downtown Dallas City Plan Commission member will 'absolutely not' support permit renewal One of the most suburban sights in the center of downtown Dallas, yet a fixture there for decades, is at risk of extinction. A permit allowing the McDonald's at 1000 Commerce St. to operate a drive-thru expired Dec. 8. The fast food restaurant sits just a few blocks away from the city's tallest tower in a largely underdeveloped area of downtown that city leaders and developers hope to transform into a walkable, urban corridor — especially with the soon-to-be-redeveloped Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center a short walk away. While on the surface this seems like a debate over a single McDonald's, it speaks to a deeper reckoning about the future of downtown Dallas. Social media commenters dream of a less car-centric Central Business District. But these Golden Arches have also fed countless North Texans at an affordable price, including nearby residents and workers who might stop by more than they would care to admit. It's a battle of two competing visions of downtown: one of urban walkability, another of suburban convenience. "Now that we have these beautiful parks and we're building dynamic districts throughout downtown and really trying to weave them together, we are looking at what's now holding us back," said Jennifer Scripps, president and CEO of Downtown Dallas Inc. "You know, a bunch of cars lined up is not ideal toward our goals, but that being said, there are a lot of people who use that." The special-use permit is required as drive-thrus are generally not allowed in downtown Dallas under zoning rules. McDonald's Corp. submitted an application requesting renewal of the permit Dec. 7. Despite the expiration, the permit remains active while the application is under review by city staff, according to a city spokesperson. The question of whether to renew the permit will go before the City Plan Commission and Dallas City Council, although dates have not been set.
  7. The pollution issue is greatly over-exaggerated. Going forward there will be more electric cars (no pollution) and hybrids (much less pollution) in the vehicle fleet. This tollway will have minimal or negligible trucks, which pollute much more than cars. I recently lived alongside the Sam Houston Tollway for several years near an overpass and my opinion is that pollution from a freeway is a non-issue. Noise was also a non-issue except during usual wind conditions, although the tollway has a low-noise asphalt overlay in that area (Jersey Village). The use of an expensive freeway cap for about 1.3 km is a huge violation of good judgement and responsible financial management. The main reasons to build a cap are to 1) Add park space where land is scarce or unavailable, and 2) if the freeway goes through the middle of an established neighborhood, to maintain connectivity. Neither condition exists. There is an abundance of vacant land in the area, and many vacant parcels are being repurposed to parks as part of this project. The freeway cap adds a super-expensive 100 feet of width to the park, which brings the park to be alongside the heavily trafficked railroad. That makes no sense. There is also no need to "connect" neighborhoods because of the triple-track railroad. Obviously the railroad is a permanent barrier. And the east side of the railroad has a large scrap yard, a truck yard and a warehouse. The visioning enhancements, especially the trench and cap, will add massively to the cost, possibly $200 million or more. And that may be the intent of Harris County Commissioners Court. They (especially Hidalgo, but excluding Tom Ramsey) would rather spent toll revenue on enhancements than on the toll roads. They could also lower tolls further (more than 10% as was done in 2023) if there is surplus revenue.
  8. No construction yet but it’s on maps
  9. This is a nice looking building and I like the way it relates to the one across the street. Binz is developing quite a corridor from Montrose to Alameda of Museums, restaurants, medical offices and residential. It will be a much used pedestrian area with the rail running through it. Too bad the X went belly up. I hope someone like Hanover can take it off their hands if the original group can't secure new funding.
  10. We live inside the loop.. We have a 1/4 acre lot and live within a few blocks of Kroger. We still use the car to shop for groceries. Anything to do with the yard is going to require a car. I've known a few people who tried to live without a car in Houston. One managed pretty well, but he was a coworker who was literally a rocket scientist, but was absent minded. He never learned to drive. All the other gave up after a month or so. The other issue is getting to and from work. Unless your office is downtown, public transport is tough. When we lived in Midtown, I had to take the bus to Bellaire for work for 6 weeks after TS Allison flooded my car. 6 block walk to the bus and it dropped off across the street from my office. It turned a 10 to 15 minute commute into 45 minutes or longer. Why would I not use a car for that?
  11. Well the Titanic hit an Iceberg not another country's property. Insurance should cover a big portion of the cost to rebuild.
  12. Mural being done at Shell Stadium by https://www.instagram.com/dragon76art/
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  14. The owner of the ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge faces a mountain of potential lawsuits. Experts say the owner will likely try to invoke an 1851 law to try to cap potential damages. The Limitation of Liability Act was successfully used by the Titanic owner after the 1912 sinking. From potential wrongful death lawsuits to property damage lawsuits, the owner of the container ship that crashed into a major Baltimore bridge, destroying it, can expect to face a mountain of legal troubles. Analysts have already estimated that claims from the deadly early Tuesday disaster that caused Maryland's Francis Scott Key Bridge to abruptly collapse could cost insurers billions of dollars. Three maritime legal experts told Business Insider that the owner of the Singapore-flagged vessel called the Dali will almost certainly invoke a 19th-century federal law — that was successfully used by the owner of the Titanic— to try to limit its liability in the bevy of lawsuits that are expected to arise. "If they're fully successful, it will cap how much they have to pay in damages," Michael Sturley, an expert in maritime law and professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law, told BI. Grace Ocean Private Ltd, the owner of the 95,000-ton Dali ship that was bound for Sri Lanka before smashing into one of the bridge's support pillars, has about six months to file a petition in federal court under the 1851 Limitation of Liability Act. Grace Ocean Private Ltd did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on Thursday. "The chances of their filing a limitation action are somewhere north of 99.99%," Sturley said. https://www.yahoo.com/news/owner-ship-crashed-baltimore-bridge-201630179.html
  15. Taking over the old 59 Dinner. https://pinkertonsbarbecue.com/location/houston/ Architect - https://www.identityarchitects.com
  16. Hardwood Bargains moved down a couple doors so Pacific Coast Tacos could take over their old location. The Wescott St. location of Pacific Coast seems to do well, every time I go by there are a lot of cars. The building behind this shopping center is gone.
  17. As mentioned before, there are negative externalities in car-dependent policies like parking minimums, large setbacks and lot sizes, etc that don't exist in the other (more denser) way: whether it is environmental sustainability/flooding, or rising prices/city finances, or traffic, all of it is worse with car-centric policies compared to denser urbanity. In that respect, there is no "both sides" to it: There are no principled justifications for parking minimums in anywhere, even when factoring in transit options/lackthereof. In fact, most stuff in US zoning codes (setbacks, residential density limits, etc) have no principled justification. Most of the complaining is irrelevant: just a bunch of shooting the messenger, poisoning the well, affirming the consequent, and other fallacious, misdirected ire that misses the core causal connections (i.e. and, hence, important keys to true problem solving).
  18. I wonder where they came up with the name Chaucer? 🤷‍♂️
  19. This is why we can't have nice smooth roads in Houston. Developers cut in to the street to tie their utilities to the city's but never repair it like it was, it's either dips or bumps. Surprised city inspectors let them get away with it.💵 Most developers will go back with asphalt instead of the original concrete.
  20. No confusions here. The nigh 100% single-family nature of the post-war suburbia, combined with the large lot homes + setbacks, roadways, and other space-consuming requirements, makes the trip to the store effectively arduous even in the context of a car (let alone those that don't have vehicles ... too young, too old/infirm, other family members out at work, etc): The rest of your post is just restating the problem: the negative externalities of car-centric buildout even in Heights, or other "Inner Loop walkable" neighborhoods. The parking minimums and other onerous codes effectively crowd out "the little guy" such that larger chains represented in "consolidated big box stores" are naturally the ones that persist (i.e. larger companies have more wealth = much easier to hire the lawyers, consultants, etc that go through the city codes, land acquisitions, etc). Relinquish the useless minimums, and watch the area flourish with neighborhood commercials that allow the frequent buys, selections, etc of all types of LOCAL stuff pertaining to clothing, jewelry, toys, food, etc Again, Heights is a STREETCAR neighborhood: it is only "suburban" in the sense that streetcar TODs were, in the past, the forms of expansion. But TODs and pedestrian-friendliness of streetcar neighborhoods are very different from the current car-centric suburbia that we know today. And cities grow and change. Increasing land-values calls for increasing density ... including higher rises, whether in Heights or other areas of Houston. After all, another famous "streetcar suburb" is none other than the Brooklyn Borough of NYC. The overall loose regulations of Houston help a lot in creating the Inner Loop densification (particularly residential): all that's left is to kill the remaining useless rules (particularly low-hanging fruit like parking minimums and setbacks), and allow truer urbanity to really flourish.
  21. Whitmire continues to clean house…replacing the Houston Public Library director of 20 years! https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/mayor-john-whitmire-appoints-new-houston-public-19373976.php
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