Twinsanity02 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I do not see a tree. Looks like three more stories to go before this beauty is topped out. Too bad it's not thirty stories. Could be our new signature building in Houston. I suggest a name. Could be called the Big Tu-d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdog08 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Even if it's an ugly parking garage, it will mean more people will be able to shop, eat, and drink/party in downtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Right, because parking downtown, drinking, and then driving back to the suburbs is such a great idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arternative Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 On 3/21/2017 at 10:59 PM, Texasota said: Right, because parking downtown, drinking, and then driving back to the suburbs is such a great idea. It's kind of what we're known for round these parts. I'm referencing the DWI fatalities in Harris co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 I'm sorry but nothing about this thread makes any sense. Bottom line the city has no balls, the developers have no scruples and the citizens get screwed. Who has to live with it the rest of its life. We all do. We'll never learn. This could have been so much better. And this is Houston's front porch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Perhaps we can rent philwilhites drone and paint bomb it. Sorry about butchering your name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrow Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 On the positive side, a cheap precast garage means this is just a stand-in to make more profit than a lot could make until a better use for the land is found. If they spent extra on trellises and gargoyles and other flair that would signal to me they intend to keep this as a garage for quite a while. Once market demand dictates better financial use for the land, they likely won't hesitate to tear down the boring garage and build a better and bigger building--to make more money. Also, the huge blank wall signals to me they anticipate the neighboring parking lot being developed near-term. Why have anything more than a blank wall when building to the lot line intrablock? A mural (or an advertising profit motive) would be a great possibility until the lot next door is developed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 My only hope is the vacant lot next door to this - there could still be a building to cover up this ugly blank wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 That paneling will age well... NOT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 17 minutes ago, mfastx said: That paneling will age well... NOT!! Lipstick on a pig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 It already looks old and outdated and should be demolished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Okay so were there any witnesses to this hit and run. Are those faux bricks. How did they attach these panels. WTF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Still baffles me that they had to get this approved to be in the historic district and somebody actually approved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 It maybe isn't the most beautiful thing in the world but it sure as hell will fill a need and kill surface parking. If we can pack more people into a smaller area then I'm all for it. Not NYC small but small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Houston by Marc longoria, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adr Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 That side of the garage is begging pretty hard for a mural. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 5 hours ago, adr said: That side of the garage is begging pretty hard for a mural. It might as well be painted with the words "Houston's design and planning process is effectivity useless and inept and every elected politician in the city should be ashamed"...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 On 4/20/2017 at 6:40 PM, UtterlyUrban said: It might as well be painted with the words "Houston's design and planning process is effectivity useless and inept and every elected politician in the city should be ashamed"...... Crushed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adr Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Crane is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 I guess the city could get rid of the Cotsworld diagonal parking spaces in front of this garage and develop a pocket park or bike lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 For those of you who don't know... The HAHC tried hard to get this to be as best as possible. The historic guidelines are weak... which mean they can be legally challenged. They requested for this to represent a store front. "Brick" was demanded. You see the result... The developers technically met all requirements. For those of you who hate this garage, or even see this as a disappointing development, stricter guidelines and HAHC oversight could allow us to legally demand better. Just take a look at Hines' garage at Aris. That could be the standard. Unfortunately, we have a long way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Looks fine by me, muralists will come knocking, & anyways this is the historic district, they get all the niceties unlike say southeast downtown. Like I said before, this means the parking in front (along Franklin going east) is now redundant and that space can be re-designed This is where political will power would be applied more productively in the short term. Also what's to stop a future developer putting a stick-frame high rise on top of the garage? That's how I see all the garages in the parking garage district (~Milam@Clay).That crustation parking lot, while banal was the real problem of place making but no one really cared or noticed because their was no "improvement" to make judgement about aesthetics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 9 hours ago, infinite_jim said: Also what's to stop a future developer putting a stick-frame high rise on top of the garage? That's how I see all the garages in the parking garage district (~Milam@Clay). Physics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 55 minutes ago, kbates2 said: Physics? This isn't your mother's glulams were talking about here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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