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  1. I assume you drove there, but do you have any sense of how far it is from the Red Line? One of my doctors might move there, and I'd rather change doctors than have to take an Uber down there. (If I'm visiting this particular doctor, walking is difficult, and driving is not an option.)
  2. Works fine on my devices, including an iPad. Checked with: MacBook Pro (M2) MacBook Pro (2018) iPhone X iPhone 14 Pro Samsung Galaxy (an older one) And various combinations of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, plus Safari, Firefox, and Duck. Seems to be something with your iPad.
  3. The Houston Super Neighborhoods Map has it as Greater OST/South Union https://mycity.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e87cdc21ac3a43ecb2cdf2c31d75ca8e#!
  4. As for "sneakiness," Highrise Tower has the same right to change his online status as any other HAIFer, including you. And I'm not sure how it would be "sneaky" since there is a record of every change made to the thread. It makes sense to me that it would have been put into Holy Places, since at the time that was what it most recently was, and the future plans for the location were not yet clear. Now that there is an indication of it being something else, @Triton is correct to move it to the Heights section. If construction starts on something substantial, it would make perfect sense for it to then be moved to Going Up. This is HAIF, not a Tom Cruise film. Not everything is a conspiracy.
  5. I think Exxon or Chevron is doing the same thing. I read something in the Chronicle about it buying a bunch of convenience stores and the fast food chain attached to them. The name escapes me, but I've seen them elsewhere in Houston. So maybe this is Shell's version of that. But I like @HNathoo's EV charging station idea much better.
  6. It makes me a bit sad to think that all downtown Houston can aspire to is gas station tacos.
  7. Does anyone see a way this can end up improving things? Or are we looking at Main Street Market all over again?
  8. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that parking lot was closed and locked. I guess now we know why. And I guess that if it's no longer earning revenue, construction shouldn't be too far off.
  9. I do the same. But I think at least part of it is that people are used to turning there, and it's been my observation that No Left Turn signs across Houston are often not very prominent in size or placement. Here's Westheimer at Avalon Place, where a few days ago I sat behind someone trying to make an illegal left turn. (I didn't honk this time because someone was between us.) If someone is making a left turn from the left lane, they're not looking for the No Left Turn sign all the way over on the right sidewalk. The geometry of the curbs should be some indication that this isn't a good place to turn, but there should be more to it than that. Whatever good citizen placed those cones on the sidewalk when the Apple Maps car went by knows it's a problem, but those cones were long gone by the time I was there last week. It's just part of the Houston ethos: "Ah, that's good enough." No, it's not. There should be a No Left Turn sign on the little concrete island along with a Do Not Enter sign facing southwest. And if that doesn't work, we should get all Washington, D.C. with it:
  10. Thinking about it further, I think the only reason I discovered C&D is because I was traveling more slowly on 11th Street, instead of blowing past it without noticing, as I had the previous few years. That said, the 11th Street bike lane project isn't perfect. Someone should have come up with a way for people to make left turns at the Heights Boulevard intersection. I think that's one of the biggest factors sending unwanted traffic roaming through the neighborhood.
  11. I thought this was a really weird article when I read it. It basically parrots the greenfield real estate development lobby's assertion that it costs too much to convert office buildings to residences. I think blanket statements like that are silly because each building is different. I really respect Gensler, but this doesn't line up with reality. There's a successful office → residential conversion literally two blocks away from Howell's office. An uncharitable interpretation of the quotation is that perhaps Gensler's Houston office is simply not up to the challenge, since so many other firms around the world are doing this very successfully. Across America, there are already many hundreds, if not thousands of office buildings that have been converted into residences. It's not a new trend. In 2003 I lived in a 25-story 1925 skyscraper that was converted to residences in the 1980's. And there were a dozen others in the neighborhood. Even in Houston, this isn't something new or exotic. There's at least half-a-dozen of them downtown, both new and old conversions. Yes, it can be hard. But it's not universally hard, as professed by people who make money from plowing under the prairie to build bland beige bungalows out to the horizon.
  12. I kinda like the design, too. It would be nice if it could be made into a centerpiece of the park, like as a community center + Museum of Houston + tourist information center + gift shop.
  13. Yes, downtown needs more parks. It also needs more buildings to replace the surface parking lots. But there's plenty of under-utilized space for both. Parks are a magnet for residential and other development. So much so that big real estate development companies will actually build their own parks adjacent to their skyscrapers (both office and residential), and then give the land to the city in order to increase the value of their commercial properties.
  14. Pretty much every city I've lived in has had a mayor who pledged to make it a "bio-tech hub." I don't follow this space, so which ones have actually succeeded so far? As for profit-driven vs non-profit, I don't think that's much of a factor anymore. The non-profits have learned how to monetize their inventions and discoveries. A lot of universities make millions from licensing and other deals. Heck, Google started out as a Stanford University research project.
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