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https://www.studioredarchitects.com/university-of-st-thomas-performing-arts-center-houston-texas/

Hopdoddy in the Heights. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/07/18/popular-austin-burger-joint-hopdoddy-to-open-in.html

Every off street parking space takes away space for an actual business, residence, or other use. What is the negative impact of using on-street parking as much as possible? Again, if most people who live in the Heights have off-street parking (which has certainly been my experience) then non-residents aren't really competing directly with residents for these spaces. Not to harp on this, but I really think it's important. There has to be a reason for streets not to be "clogged up" with cars. Is it aesthetic? Is it speed? And is it a good enough reason to waste an existing resource and shift the burden onto individual businesses? Is it a good enough reason to exchange additional space for parking rather than an actual use?

I like it. Great for that area.

According to Wikipedia , Uptown Houston is the 17th largest which they claim is similar in office space to Denver or Pittsburg. I suppose they do not count residential in all these estimates.

I'm surprised I wasn't able to find this on HAIF. I ran a few searches, but nothing came up. Apologies if this is a repeat thread... Swamplot reported in May that the Univ. of St. Thomas will be building a new performance arts center near the Menil campus. The article indicates that the building will be four stories and just under 100k square feet. Here's the accompanying rendering: http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/st-thomas-performing-arts-center.jpg University of St. Thomas's Performing Arts Center Moving in Next to Menil Campus

Residences at Park District, from PwC Tower: Park District

Ahhh must have overlooked/missed this. Sorrey

All very good points, and I would also point out that on-street parking reduces the amount of paving and thus reduces flooding over the long term.

Personally, I'd much rather have more street parking and fewer surface lots. However, most residential streets in the Heights are not quite wide enough to accommodate street parking on both sides and still allow two-way traffic to flow normally. This is not normally a problem when only 1/4 to 1/3 of the available street spaces are in use, since there's usually enough room for one car to pull over and let an oncoming vehicle pass. However, when parking volumes are high, navigating these streets becomes difficult. There are three potential solutions to this: 1 - Repave streets with curbs and gutters to allow more space for street parking. This is the most expensive option. 2 - Restrict street parking to one side of the street only. This eliminates half the on-street spaces, including spaces that residents use on a regular basis. Often spaces they've paid money to improve (like placing a culvert in the drainage ditch). 3 - Convert streets in the Heights from two-way to one-way. This maintains all the on-street spaces and eliminates any issues with flow of vehicles during peak parking demand. Many urban neighborhoods with a high usage rate of on-street parking have one-way side streets. In Houston, a big chunk of the 4th ward (the area bounded by Gray, Taft, Dallas and I-45) is laid out with one-way streets to allow on-street parking despite the narrow right-of-way. In this particular area, the N-S streets are mostly OK for street parking (except Nicholson). Converting the E-W streets to one-way from 16th to 28th (maybe with the exception of 19th and 20th) would resolve the problem. East of Heights Blvd, I think you could make an argument for converting the entire street grid, from I-10 to 20th between Heights and Studewood, to one-way traffic.

There are provisions in the ordinance for shared parking requirements, but, effectively, if the restaurants open before 5PM, they can't use that garage to meet any of their minimum parking requirement. They CAN, however, lease up to 50-70% of the parking spaces for overflow after 5PM, depending on the actual use classification of that building.

I don't have any issue with street parking. It's just that of the 3 streets bordering this development, 2 don't have any. I think the missed opportunity is that instead of 3 surface lots (this development, NW corner of 19th and Ashland, SE corner of 20th and Ashland) we could have one parking structure and two new developments, bringing a lot more density to this retail corridor. Between the waterworks and whatever goes on the Chase site, we could finally have a continuous corridor of street-facing buildings from Yale to Shepherd.

39,000 pounds sounds like a lot. 19.5 tons sounds like a lot less.

There's already a four story parking deck across the street for the Heights Medical Tower that I bet doesn't get much use in the evenings and on weekends. Maybe they could arrange something with those guys.

39,000 pounds..? Geez

Where is Uptown in that ranking? Just curious .

Well the Brits were playing baseball in London this 4th of July. It'd be interesting to see if cricket can catch on here. Lots of Indian and Pakistanis will be fans for sure though.

The TMC website claims they are the 8th largest business district in the U.S.

Texas on tap for new U.S. Cricket stadium with help of JLL 11 Alive

Why is limiting cars parked on the street a good thing? If there's street parking available than that's exactly what's it's for, and I have to imagine that the vast majority of Heights residents have off-street parking.

In all fairness if you look at the aerial photo in their gallery it looks pretty much what you see when you look from above. There is a little pocket park type area just across from this project so the rendering is fairly accurate. It is a very small park though, more a big corner.

The 39,000 lbs panels are too heavy for the tower crane this far away.

Looks great from 350' up!

I just joined this forum and am browsing topics. I searched the Witch's Hat House and Musicman's old post/inquiry about the Witch House brought to mind the beautiful gem of a house referred to as the "Witch's Hat House" located at 2201 Fannin St. I fell in love with this house back in the late 70's to early 80's when an architectural firm was housed there. It was still beautiful then. I just read an article dated 8.26.16 in the Houston Press , I believe , where the house was demolished but the turret or better known as the Witch's Hat survived and is at a park in sixth ward as the top to a gazebo. Great reading and has beautiful pictures of this lost gem. On another note, I am familiar with Garden Villas but not the witch house referenced in Musicman's original inquiry. Must explore. Totally loving this forum. EastEndNative58

The green cross signage in the rendering of Agricole's new place is a play off Farmacia signage in Europe. Don't be surprised if they somehow pull this in as part of the branding into their "storyline" of European meets Texas via Indianola. Also of note, Master Distiller Dave Pickerell filed a LLC at his address in Kentucky for Indianola Distilling just a few months ago so he is likely contracted to help get it up and running. http://www.rbnsearch.com/kentucky/2017-04-28/indianola-distilling-company-llc Heard earlier this year that Weber was seeking private investors for his bourbon distillery concept and the associated 3 sub brands with other spirits they might produce. He and Dougherty of Ancorian were up in Kentucky this past week and were with Pickerell at least part of the time, per social media.

At least 24% of their customers will make a joke of that name, removing a 'n'

Taking a pic of the Star and off in the distance I see a helicopter. Went to investigate.