Jump to content

Jeebus

Full Member
  • Posts

    3,085
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    5

Everything posted by Jeebus

  1. I would rather someone be entertained by a scripted reality show than a stage set sit-com, complete with canned laugh-track to que what is supposed to be funny and when to laugh.
  2. Man, you skip over a thread for two days in this town... Are you kidding me? Let me guess, you're a journalism major and are hoping to land a job at the "Chron" one day? Racism and socialism are two different monsters - don't confuse the two. Dr. King was about "hand-ups" and not "hand-outs". Any decent person, regardless of political affiliation would respect that. You meant "too", right? I'd like to think if we (Houston) were judged by nothing else than our airport (IAH), that we would be viewed favorably.
  3. Wow... after some digging, you are absolutely right. I misread this map when I had posted this originally. I guess it was just wishful thinking. Looking at the map though, nothing on the Westside of FM1464 is in Richmond's ETJ - It's 100% Houston.
  4. The parking lot is behind the station, with the front facing Louisiana so that when the fire trucks pull out, they will be pulling out in to one-way traffic into downtown. It looks like it will be a "pull-through" station, which is very popular in the south and west where space is readily available. All the newer fire stations here in Houston, as with most other cities, are of this design. It's actually better for traffic as the fire trucks don't have to take up all the traffic lanes in front of the station, then back into the station. Instead, they can make the block and pull in from behind. Having a large parking area behind the station allows for daily maintenance and cleaning of the fire trucks, helicopters to land, stage other fire trucks during emergency operations, and to perform various training activities at the station. My only complaint has been with the Jiffy Lube design. I'm fine with it taking up a whole block, as being downtown, it's most likely to never have the space to perform the above said tasks otherwise.
  5. Well, it is only about 1/20th the size of Houston.
  6. You're forgetting that the government works by lowest bidder. For everyone of us booing this bland design, there would be two more if the city spent unnecessary millions just to design something architecturally "significant". But hey, I agree with you. It looks like another crappy Westheimer strip-center. I think this is what Musicman's post was saying. You just misunderstood.
  7. Yeah, I'm calling B.S. to this claim. But please feel free to refute me by actually naming one active business that does as you claim.
  8. They probably meant (I'm too lazy to scroll up and read the original post..) that if the firefighters quarters were built over the bays, then you could add that many more bays where the first floor quarters are now.
  9. I get Ponzo's at least once a week. I've usually have to double park as well. That Italian roast beef it to kill for.
  10. Give them enough time & money and it will happen. They were quick to brag about how the successful bond election will bring fencing to courtyards that never had it (or needed in my opinion). We keep building more walls & fences.
  11. How? It happened on the front lawn near the street, in River Oaks of all places. Now HISD is bragging how the passed bond will allow them to fence off the school, along with others. Can you imagine that they will have to fence a school off in River Oaks? Maybe they can fence it off and have HISD police with K-9 dogs patrol the perimeter. My, how this is starting to remind me of all the added security at airports post 9|11.
  12. Mistaking a Toyota for a Benz? That doesn't say much for that college educated Rocket does it? FWIW, I'm dissapointed in the Accords. They are starting to look too American.
  13. Wasn't this the park that people submitted names for? My only fear (and I hate being the negative nancy here but..) is that any greenspace in the greater downtown/midtown area seems to attract the homeless. I really hope this administration can figure out a solution (bus them to San Antonio/Austin/Dallas) before the park & building construction is finished.
  14. Doesn't it look like there are tunnels under the roundabout It also looks like, per their site, that whole cities are contracting DPZ to develop large tracks of land for urban infill. I would love to see them take on some more projects in Houston.
  15. The fact that DPZ is helping Southland design this community is going to make it worth every penny to live there. My wife and I are making serious considerations, especially since we've learned that DPZ is on board. DPZ's website.
  16. I found this while browsing around DPZ's website, after learning that they are involved with the Sugar Land Charhouse residential development with the City of Sugar Land, and Cherokee Development. It looks like a plan to redevelop the old Astroworld site. If so, this is great news as DPZ has helped cities across the nation bring back intelligent, practical, and most importantly: functional, mixed use developments over the last 30 years. To have them in the game here in H-Town for two different projects is a great start. I hope to see more from them. Does anyone here have anymore information about Fannin Station?
  17. I think Sugar Land has Aliana, along with Village of Oak Lake, Summerfield, Orchard Lakes, and all the other developments south of West Airport in its eventual annexation sights.
  18. I did think. I changed "father" to "groom". But here, since this is what you really wanted: Oh wow, great pictures! Thanks for sharing! I bet the view was spectacular!
  19. 1992?? More like 1982!! Sadly, the only outfit from those pictures that is still fashionable is the groom's tux.
  20. At least this is going to be on the far east-end of Midtown, keeping more homeless off Main St.
  21. The Asian community, in particular the Vietnamese, haven really taken a foothold in this area. I feel like I can actually see the area improving every time I drive down Bellaire or Beechnut. The apartment complexes are the only thing they seem unable to change, even in the ones that they make up the majority of the ethnicity in.
  22. You should have. I mean, punching one in the face would have surely scared off the other few thousand.
  23. He hit a stopped train. There was nothing to beat.
  24. What is the url of the site you pulled this picture from?
  25. All I can say about Phoenix is that, compared to Houston, everything was newer - thus giving it a "cleaner" appearance. They have just as many strip-malls and other undesirable architectural turds in that town as we do though. If it weren't for the good looking women in Scottsdale & Tempe (read: ASU), I'm not sure what that town would have to offer.
×
×
  • Create New...