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  1. 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.

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    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:

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    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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/food-culture/restaurants-bars/article/federal-american-grill-houston-18705907.php

    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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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