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On 3/25/2024 at 5:52 PM, __nevii said:
If Midtown is indeed struggling, then I don't know what else it will take to speed development
Simple answer: More people.
Hard answer: More people.
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Can you tell what the goal of the replat is?
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32 minutes ago, Highrise Tower said:
It's going to be park land with trails? I thought it was just a sunken hole to fill with excess flood water.
It's common in places out west that suffer from flash floods to build public parks into detention basins. Here are two examples from Las Vegas:
In both you can see the openings of the underground flood diversion tunnels. Las Vegas has a huge network of flood tunnels that not only handle flash floods, but also catch the trees, mud and boulders that precede them:
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I'm curious to know if these crimes ended up in the standardized crime reports that are sent to the FBI for statistical purposes, or if they were left out.
If they were left out, we need to know the real crime rates in Houston with these "shelved" crimes included.
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On 3/19/2024 at 5:16 PM, steve1363 said:
You guys are cracking a lot of jokes but isn't the real question what exactly Whitmire is covering up that he doesn't want the public to know about?
Will this story grow legs? Who knows...
Lizard people.
Whitmire's campaign was mostly funded by the lizard people. Everyone knows their lair is underneath that government complex. That's how they control the politicians.
The lizard people need more traffic on Houston Avenue because the vibrations run the generators that power their heat lamps. It's science.
The entrance to their labyrinth is underneath the fake "slide" at the corner of Kessler and Elder. Did you never think it was strange that there would be a tiny playground in the middle of an industrial wasteland, with just one piece of playground equipment, surrounded by a security fence?
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I rode the Galveston trolley for the first time a few weeks ago. It was… not great. I never thought that I'd think one of the fake bus trolleys would be a superior form a transit, but it really is. The actual diesel-powered trolley was unpleasant.
I think self-contained diesel-powered train cars make a bit of sense. I've been on a few in the less-fashionable areas of Devon and Cornwall. But they were much larger machines, and you could crowd into one end of the car or the other to mitigate the noise and vibration. But the Galveston trolley is more like a theme park ride than transit.
Ideally, it would be electrified. But then, if it's never been electrified in the past, that would probably ruin its historic integrity. I'm not sure what to make of it.
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Every time I'm disappointed with the rate of development in Midtown, I try to remind myself of what it looked like when I lived in Houston in the 90's. Mostly one-story abandoned commerical buildings, surface parking lots, and a struggling Little Saigon neighborhood.
The development of West Gray between Bagby and Cushing was just getting started, and very few people could envision what it became.
Anyone who thinks pedestrian-oriented development can't work in Houston should visit that area.
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I looked at the paper permit in the window a few weeks ago and forgot to post it:
In other cities I've lived, "speculative'" meant they were just building it out hoping that having a finished space will attract a tenant, but that none was currently on the hook. Does it means the same thing in Houston?
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On 3/20/2024 at 3:49 AM, IntheKnowHouston said:
It will also include the chain’s first coffee bar — offering pastries, sandwiches and salads — to cater to the downtown office crowd.
If there's coffee, I'm there.
It's nice that there's so many coffee options downtown, though I wish more of them were open later, since sometimes I like to sit in a coffee shop with a book and decompress after work.
I noticed lately that Campesino is open until 9pm. I really thought it was only open until 4pm. Maybe it's a sign that business is doing better.
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I've wanted to stop in a number of times, but I'm always on the other side of Fannin, so I use the little non-denominational meditation room on the second floor of the outpatient center.
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The Chronicle says Federal Grill opened last weekend.
Looks like just in time for all that juicy oil industry convention expense account money.
Pro: The red umbrellas give a good pop of color to a fairly sterile space.
Con: It doesn't seem the kitchen vents to the street, so no free smells like when you walk by Morton's.
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The stylized caduceus is interesting. It doesn't match the rest of the building. I wonder if it's an artifact from a medical building was at this location before the parking garage was built.
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Looks similar to a parking garage near where I once lived. Here's the Apple Maps street view:
This one was built for the IBM Center (Now a Langham Hotel). Perhaps it's the same architect. Certainly looks to be the same era.
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This may be HAIF's first four-star review for a parking garage!
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That is kind of cool. Maybe for emergencies?
I know a medical facility out west where the employees are always complaining about the quality of the drinking water. I should send one of them this photo.
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Pre-cast concrete rarely ages well without a lot of maintenance. Especially in moist environments, like Houston.
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Care for the concrete, and let the landscaping die. Very Houston!
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I saw this mentioned in the Chronicle the other day. Sometimes it strikes me as weird that the federal government has to pitch in to fix things that should be basic city services, like sidewalk repair.
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I wonder if that tower was built for future expansion.
I've seen buildings where all of the pipes and elevators and other utilities are put in a tower like that in order to maximize the floor space for the office. They build the tower to the height they aspire the building will achieve, then build enough office floors to pay for the tower. In time, when demand was high enough, the remaining office floors would be added.
This was more common back in the 1920's — the adding floors part, not the utility tower part. But in the 2010's I watched a building built in the 1980's to 36 floors expand to its original design height of 64 floors. Around the same time, a building a few blocks away built to around 18 floors in the 1920's gained another five floors to reach its design height. I guess some buildings take longer than others to grow up.
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On 3/15/2024 at 9:07 PM, Highrise Tower said:
Should we just use the current VA hospital address? 2002 Marlborough Drive?
If Houston has an online GIS system, you should be able to find the Marlborough Drive address. In some cities, you can click a plot of land on a map and it shows you a list of all the legal and alternate addresses. But I haven't looked for Houston's yet.
But for now, I think use the current building's address just so it can be mapped.
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On 3/17/2024 at 3:36 PM, Highrise Tower said:
I do wonder if a patient could apply for a monthly parking pass, just as an employee of the TMC would.
Possibly. It likely depends on if it's operated by the Medical Center, or contracted out to a private company to run.
But speaking as a Medical Center frequent flyer, if I ever got to the point as a patient where I needed monthly parking, that would be truly depressing.
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Ugmo. Looks shiny and new, but hopefully it will eventually be demolished and replaced with a proper building.
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Reata at 3231 Allen Parkway
in River Oaks/Upper Kirby/Greenway Plaza/Bissonnet
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One Park Place feels inadequate.