j_cuevas713

So stupid smh... at least we know the project is moving forward

Yep I see that every day... dude is awesome

lol why even make a rendering of that?

Because dallas likes to brag about everything they build, yet everything they build is not that impressive

And why are all those people pictured in downtown dallas?

That's so stupidly amazing incredible spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish this was already happening, but we gotta wait 

I work across the street at Adcetera... this is awesome!

Hey even though it a government facility, it's def an upgrade for the area

J Cuervo is a friend of mine

He's my cousin

Niiice!

Unfortunately I think you're right in assuming Campo has extremely unrealistic expectations..

And yeah, what jcuervez(?) asked.. Will the park at least be moving forward?

JCuevas

So the park itself? What happens there? Is the park moving foward just not the apartments?

This makes me so angry

You're giving him too much credit LTAWACS calling him an ape... but man how can we replace this guy with maybe someone like Mr. Hines?

This guy is full of it!

October!? Dang!

I think that if some more of our community leaders had similar "chaos" in their heads, this city would be beyond where we currently are.

It really is because of the oil crash back in the day. This city is now just barely getting back in the groove of where it left off. Says a lot about the resilience of Houston. Many other cities have a hard time recovering from what has been their brand. Look at cities in the Midwest as a prime example. The good thing is Houston is diversifying beyond just oil, with green energy. And the new ideas surfacing from the space program, or what's left of it. And our medical field is booming.

Anyone have pics of the concert pavilion?

Man talk about having an awesome vibe outside the stadium. We are easily going to have one of the best baseball environments for national media.

Any news on this?

So...? Any new info on when construction is going to start?

We don't need the Pierce, but some sort of narrow elevated path connecting Midtown to Buffalo Bayou would be cool.

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/copenhagens-new-bike-skyway-makes-commuting-look-fun/

I love this idea. We can tear it down and redesign an elevated path. You still get the great views of downtown.

Lets also remember that before all these apartments it was a completely foreign idea to most developers here to put residential in Downtown. In this case it was up to the city to sell the idea to developers and that sell was creating an incentive or a nudge to help lead developers to the idea that this was possible. The biggest question is once these res buildings are built what will the business client be then in terms of taking a greater risk to build in downtown. If these buildings are successful then you got the "build it and they will come" mentality and then we might see a rush into the downtown the likes we haven't seen. At that point you might not need another blanket incentive, but then you can start isolating areas of downtown with separate incentives or create other blanket incentives that help bring a greater variety of incomes into downtown.

Very well put point. I would like to see a couple more incentives in place, just until things begin to stabilize on their own. I completely agree though with your comment.

I wonder if they could do a similar incentive for retail - something like a sales tax break on all groceries or dry-goods sold. (Yes I realize the grocery basics don't have sales tax but prepared frozen food does, toilet paper, etc - things that Phoenicia doesn't have anyway)

I think that may be something they could be working towards. I expect for us to begin seeing new retail downtown once these residential projects are about halfway to 3/4 way done.

Actually, they built a temporary two lane road... I guess for the residents? I am not sure...

Thank goodness! My girlfriend goes to UHD, and we tried to get off at this stop to walk to her car a few weeks ago and there was no way through. 

I really believe this has a strong chance of happening. If Houston would embrace more of what it is and not what it isn't, people would begin to appreciate it more. I love how the article talks about all the doubters for Discovery Green. Like it isn't complicated, you can't go wrong with a park! And I would love for this city to continue embracing how green it is year round.