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  1. Diaspora
    It’s a challenge for all but Midtown park, but I like the cut of your jib. Activation and programming give us buckets of salsa.
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    There’s much yet to be realized as Midtown grows to confront its potential. For instance, the newly reconstructed segment of Caroline Street, while engineered well (enough) and being future-forward will, without more, simply be a multi-million dollar road to nowhere unless there are incentives and arrangements to bring retail and vibrancy to the stretch between Gray and Elgin. Moving strategically and providing placemaking interventions that bridge Caroline to Main will assist in addressing the blighted strip along Fannin and San Jacinto. Using increment and assessment to invigorate retail and ensure clean and safe pathways for residents and visitors — set as a priority — will enable the cultural nodes that are now languishing to flourish. Smart, surgical employment of enforcement and engagement resources, on foot, and capable of enforcing City Ordinances (sorry Constables that means you’re best deployed elsewhere) will go some way toward enlivening Midtown. We don’t need more parking but we would benefit from a precise parking guide that visitors could access to enable ease of access. Midtown boasts some of the best parks inside the loop. These should be activated/programmed regularly and consistently — with more than exercise classes. Use Levy Park and Market Square Park as learning tools for activation.
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    Any other information beyond the rendering?
  4. Diaspora
    Genuinely curious as to what “side” of downtown is regarded as “wrong” by residents or considered “wrong” by visitors, and more importantly, why.
  5. Diaspora
    That last block involves the question of whether they purchase the Green Sheet building.
  6. Diaspora
    The current structure going up will not have GFR. Midtown discussed GFR with Winthur Investments but they were not amenable to putting GFR in the proposed 5 story apartment building. They are amenable to GFR in the neighboring 20 story building that will begin as phase 2.
  7. Diaspora
    Because the extent of the northern block is still under negotiation.
  8. Diaspora
    At this point the Pierce is being "decommissioned" -- while these are early days, "demolished" and "removal" are not on the agenda alone.
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    Many times
  10. Diaspora
    This thread has some great suggestions regarding Midtown that align with a number of efforts underway. The entirety of Midtown is currently working with COH Plannning & Development to address/change ordinances to encourage some of the very things I'm reading above, here. If you have the time and interest P&D has the final public workshop for the Walkable Places Pilot Project on September 6, 2018 at Trinity Episcopal (Main Street entrance) from 4:00 to 6:00. https://www.facebook.com/events/241468949940281/ Mark your calendar.
  11. Diaspora
    Yup, the 3101 San Jacinto location has been, in the past, Club Empire and Club Myst, with dreadful results for nearby residents including a driveby in which 6 people were shot in May of 2015, when it was billed as Club Empire. The nearby residents and businesses protested the TABC license in 2016 and the place shut down soon after.
  12. Diaspora
    4 by my count, at this juncture.
  13. Diaspora
    Thanks. Fascinating to think that 2015 was “crazy busy” and Midtown is now tapering off while we have two 30 story apartment buildings on the rise, Camden at McGowen coming on line, the Windsor finished, etc.
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    Steinberg Dickey Collaborative have the proposed exterior design of the building on their website.
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