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This may be a solidarity thing with the mother church in Canterbury.

From Midway’s 2019 Annual Report

This being an Australian company, I wonder if the overlapping forms are a sly reference to the Sydney Opera House.

Some hardcore social distancing

Crane went up today. Guess they didn’t have to wait for the weekend since there’s no traffic right now EDIT: ugh sorry sideways

Well that's life in the city. You can't expect any lot to be developed into anything that fits into your own personal preferences unless you pony up and buy the land and do the developing yourself.

@asubrt rotated for you.

Here's hoping that the repairs being made to Trinity Episcopal Church include an over-all cleaning. The old girl is in dire need of a good bath.

199' tall tower crane application approved by the FAA on Tuesday this week. I would guess we will see the crane go up by next week. letter_434486880.pdf

Pros: Extremely low interest rates, government wants this kind of investment to continue so the economy doesn’t tank, by the time this finishes construction the virus (hopefully) will be gone. Cons: Extremely high risk, we don’t know what the hell is going on, retailers, corporations, and buyers have stopped investment. personally, I would invest, but I only got $1,000 dollars to 😂

We need to truly understand the need here- 1. do we want better walkability? 2. do we want more green space? 3. do we just want less freeway? 1: there are options to decrease lanes to allow for better pedestrian walkability 2: there are many older 60’s era apartments that could be converted to green space. Also blocks in midtown could be converted to parks, much like what’s happening in downtown. 3. if this is the true reason, masked as a needed park, I would think this idea will go forward. I am in the landscape design business. I help create outdoor spaces, parks, wildlife on a regular basis. The proposal just really looks like paths with some trees. While I love green space, it doesn’t feel like a “park”. I think traffic headaches would increase. If it ends up being a full fledge park, where would visitors park / hang out. We have to be a smart about these proposals. Sticking a park at the expense of traffic ease is not the way to win over the general public.

It would be a perfect time to build a cut-and-cover subway down Westheimer

There is no lockdown in Harris County anyway, and even in counties that have more strict shelter-in-place rules than the very light ones effective for us today, construction is generally still allowed. So I wouldn't see that as a concern just yet.

2 Groups that are "For" the Brazos Street Bridge Park.

There's a separate topic for Bayou 5th/MDI Supersite in the East End forum:

I hope I didn’t mislead anyone or confuse anyone COH was always consistent using the term “ green space” as I-hope I have used that term. This is the term for that small median at intersection of Elgin, Westheimer and Bagby that Avondale Civic hopes to become stewards of. There is another small green space at Tuam, Fairview and Genesee. These small green spaces are all one could hope for as all the remaining land within Midtown and Montrose seems spoken for- sigh

More programming would probably require MMD to throw some money at it, which I imagine they eventually would. To me the obvious precedent here is Bastop Street in EADO which has been gradually upgraded over time - even if you think this would need more programming that's something that could come later. But this really does a few things - 1. it creates a park (even if it's just trees and grass to start) at a location that I believe is genuinely well placed 2. it creates a very high quality, pleasant pedestrian and cycling connection between Holman and Brazos 3. it creates a public area for all the residential construction nearby 4. it replaces the existing wall between Montrose and Midtown with a shared gathering space I really don't understand the opposition to this plan. Partly because it sounds wonderful, but also because I have literally never used this ramp. Not when I lived in Avondale. Not when I lived in Midtown. Not when I lived in Riverside. Not when I lived in west Montrose. Not when I lived in SugarLand. Never. Not once.

Or possibly Medistar as well. Very lucrative land. I don't think someone would tear it down. Probably a rebranding project.

Additional park space, a restaurant on elevated piers, or really anything that wouldn't block out the entire western sky and give me less daylight in the backyard. I had a short conversation with Ronnie Killen about a year ago and I let him know the lot was for sale as well when I read his business was looking for Houston locations. That was for totally selfish reasons As far as the property, I sit higher and can barely see the top of the bar from my backyard. Anything 3 to 4 stories tall wouldn't be an annoyance. Also, this building will end up making Wrightwood St. its overflow parking I hope, though the second rendering looks like it has a two story structure that will snug up to that side of the yard.

this would be wonderful. I can imagine it won’t be easy getting funding for this now.

Based on the Houston Chron article I read the other day, this will actually speed up transportation projects across Houston since they have less traffic to worry about now. They can shut down an entire highway and have minimal issues.

Sounds great! Is the bayou 5th project on the MDI site?

Build the bike plan!

http://peerreview-ae.com/projects/ -Washington Ave parcel -151 units -6 floors, (5 residential, 1 retail) -3 levels underground parking

What would you prefer to be done here?

I can't decide if the stucco or the bare concrete looks better.

From Sunday morning

New and higher-quality rendering posted on LoopNet. Several fairly significant (IMHO, for the better) changes to the design. Looking at it though, I can't fully figure out where will the retail go. It appears at least that it won't be street level, or am I missing something?

Update: Opposition seems to be mobilizing. New website has appeared as well as opposing signage. https://stopbagbyclosure.com/

Tower crane for this one.

This is new.

Rendering was posted on the fence. Light poles were taken out.

Permit has been posted.

Site work has started.

Gilbane's trailer is out.