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me walking into this conversation...and me leaving it.

We're good on highways. Definitely could the rest though.

Fly over. Uptown is so huge.

Please Shanghai my Houston.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/city-county/2019/07/09/chevron-research-park-rezoning/

Brings back memories. I've taken so many people up there. My wife on her first visit to Houston. Hopefully I can take my kids up there in a few years, if they'd get it straightened out so people can see it again.

You know things have slowed down if this thread is staying at the top of Going Up.

People in Shanghai don't need to evacuate in typhoon season. not only skyscrapers, we also need Shanghai subway, highway, maglev, high speed train, airport......

I think they want to make money, not curry favor. And what types of people do not like parks?

In the corner.

It's basically in this map now...https://cohegis.houstontx.gov/cohgisweb/houstonmapviewer/ The Public Works layer has several road layers in the "active eng. and const. proj" folder: contracted overlay, inter-local, roadway, sidewalk, etc.

My visit to the sky lobby today.

Not from what I've seen. They've been ripping up Richmond all the way from the spur to Kirby. My guess is this had some fed money involved. It is a major transit corridor. One of those things where if you don't use it you lose it. Can't exactly tell that money to be held or divert it to a future BRT/LRT line. Its silly, but its one of those weird glitches in the system that happens every so often.

Uhhh thats alot of parking garages. Or am I reading that wrong? If they want to curry favor with the neighborhood they should make those green spaces into parks/play places for the neighborhood, knowing the types of people who live in that area.

Not if we had high speed evacuation trains to Dallas

Market-Based parking headed before City Council next week: The map that is being presented:

Yeah... So... How about that sky lobby, that was pretty cool.

This is just false. Developers in other cities, envy how easy it is to build in Houston. Apple or any other retailer/developer can do pretty much whatever they want in Houston, and no one over at CoH would stop/hinder/request a kickback. Houston, compared to other cities of its size is extremely easy to build in and permit. More importantly, Houston has way fewer NIMBY lawsuits from local citizens than cities of comparable size. Again, I have no idea why you think city of Houston officials would even care one way of the other, they haven't cared in the past. Up here in Chicago, President Obama can't even build his library in the hood without people suing/seeking an injunction. From today's WSJ Activist NIMBY's have prevented a huge development of an abandoned steel mill. https://www.wsj.com/articles/activists-try-to-stop-a-huge-chicago-development-over-1-3-billion-in-tax-incentives-11562849876?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4#comments_sector

Turns out this is a building in Shanghai. http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/shanghai-wheelock-square/542

I guarantee the plaza is completely redeveloped into an activated, inviting public space. Especially with the surrounding buildings' ground floors being active (many of which are Hines), the adjacency to Jones Hall, and most of downtown's recently constructed/redeveloped buildings. While highly unlikely, I think this would be an incredible location for a destination retail store - considering its proximity to high-earning downtown workers, luxury residences, and the Theater District. Imagine if this became a flagship Apple store similar to the one on 5th avenue in New York. There would be access from the adjacent tunnels at Pennzoil, BofA Tower, Chase Tower with the ability for pedestrians to access from street level. Very pie in the sky, but I think it would be extremely successful. One can dream right?

I didn’t know. The overview map you posted confirmed it as such. Seems to be the other way around Crockpot. You're the one who’s insolent towards others, specifically when someone posts something they didn’t know was already mention or when you tend to disagree how topics here are organized. We do appreciate your contributions, just please stop getting so riled up.

https://www.ridemetro.org/Pages/TC-FanninSouth.aspx Notice of Variance Request spotted today for the METRO Transit Center- Fannin South located 1604 West Bellfort Ave.

Wish we had a lot more transparency on where road projects were going to occur, who was funding it, and what the project itself entailed. Feel like Rebuild Houston is a great source but their interactive map has been down forever.

This was the farmer's market in the foreground to the right, which extended over the bayou. You can see the long canopies. I believe several other buildings around it also had produce shops.

Looks like theyre doing a little bit of green streets/water retention system at the front there. Thats nice.

What does that even mean? They want a community that is strictly residential with nothing else? I feel like this project would be way better than some abandoned buildings.

This map doesn't look complete. There is a section in NW Third Ward that has no parking minimums. I understand why they didn't include all of Midtown based on the Super Neighborhood opposition. I hope there is a plan to incrementally increase this area in Midtown and possibly to Emancipation in Third Ward. Sharing previous MBP proposal map from from another thread.

You have it a little backwards. The University of Chicago has been in that neighborhood since 1893. The black residents mostly came in in the 50's-60's, which coincided with much of the local white population leaving. There was a gang called the Blackstone Knights which scared a lot of people away. It is true that the university engaged in various development and urban renewal projects to try to keep it an upper-middle class (white) neighborhood, tearing down "dilapidated" apartments and retail buildings and building new apartments, many of them designed by I.M. Pei. Of course, the university owns most of the land in that area and has a right to develop it. The other, different issue is the taking of park land for development. This is what drove the George Lucas Museum away from Chicago. Chicagoans are pretty aggressive about preserving their parks. As far as the comparisons with Dallas and Austin, for the first half of this decade, we got way more and better development than they did, then our economy crashed in 2015 and they have been getting a little bit more than we have since then. We still lead the nation in office space constructed since 2010 (Dallas is no. 2), while we are fourth in apartments (behind Dallas, New York, and D.C.), and I'm pretty sure we are first in single-family construction. We have gotten pretty much all the development we can handle. The Apple store you showed above is something you see in touristy areas where companies like to make a splash and right now Houston does not have much tourism, being fourth among the major Texas cities in this area. I'm optimistic we can change this as our downtown becomes a great place to visit.

Pretty sure that is Dallas.

The Center for Hearing and Speech breaks ground on new campus https://www.tmc.edu/news/2019/07/the-center-for-hearing-and-speech-breaks-ground-on-new-campus/

As long as they limit it to skyscraper construction, I'll allow it. Another 20 million people evacuating the next hurricane would be kind of rough.

Bowl & Social seems redundant somehow.

so much available space to develop!

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2019/07/09/338908/recent-developments-offer-new-hope-for-alternate-plan-for-the-astrodome/

We still have the Weather Channel on in our workplace, but I've noticed another camera in use that they tend to pull from as of late. It is located Uptown, I think on the Sonesta at 610 near Westheimer. While I like seeing the Williams Tower at times as a reminder of home, there are definitely better vantage points of the city than toward that stretch of Post Oak.

Notice of Public Hearing was posted a long Fournace and S. Rice. That's a lot of items on the agenda.

Why should he (or any group that provides opposition) need to present any alternatives? There are lots of possible alternatives, none that TXDOT are pursuing, but the point of their speaking out is not to provide alternatives, it is to allow people who think this project is a waste of money a chance to agree with someone who has the ability to speak to a larger audience. There once was a time when 225 was supposed to come inside the loop and connect to 59, the opposition provided no other alternative other than do nothing. and it has worked for over 30 years. there is a community called the east end that has thrived because of that decision to do nothing. imagine if your signature had two different words...

Figured I'd take some photos of the carnage inside, too, because everything so far has been from street level.

Brochure reveals retail component and more of The RO Phase I: https://s3.amazonaws.com/transwestern-property/Flyers/91c990da-f48d-e911-80f5-caa232701e1a.pdf - 644 residential units - 310,000 office building - 200 hotel keys - 65,000 sq ft of retail

The apartments under construction are not a part of the MKT. different developer. Ojala out of dallas, not radom. Technically, Studemont junction was a land deal put together by Kaplan, subdivided and selling sites to building developers and users.

Here's the soil testing

15,000 sq ft available https://www.centriccommercial.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/8200-Washington-Pkg-002.pdf

Downtown Houston, 1929 Photo was taken where the Buffalo Bayou hike and bike trail exist today, near 45. The Bayou looked pretty rough back then. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504919/m1/1/high_res_d/