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  1. shasta
    Shasta approves. Quietly building the best public school in the state of Texas with a fraction of the resources of UT and TAMU!
  2. shasta
    Are they opening up the garage for the gym parking? The lack of parking led me to decide not to get a gym membership there..it was a zoo
  3. shasta
    Not sure if this is the official rendering. Looks like an "on the board" rendering....or even a competition. Has this been formally released by the developer?
  4. shasta
    I was wrong. Yankees = no names on the back of the jerseys because it's about the TEAM, not an Individual plus we don't want to mess with our classic look. Also, the Yankees= yeah we will add a cheesy patch on our jerseys for money
  5. shasta
    Do you have a link to their site so I can see their facilites and are they taking members?
  6. shasta
    I've been there for NFL, college football, the Rodeo and Concerts...it is not a top stadium. If you think it is..fine, we will agree to disagree, but I just pulled a comp, in another southern city, that replaced their stadium after 25 years. We are at age 21 right now.
  7. shasta
    Since you mentioned the Atlanta Falcons: Georgia Dome- Opened in 1992 Mercedes Benz Stadium- Opened in 2017....25 YEARS AFTER THE GEORGIA DOME OPENED! NRG will be 25 years old in 2027...I'm just saying, give it another 10 years and we will start hearing cries for a new stadium
  8. shasta
    capacity, atmosphere, amenities, location, exterior, etc. There are many things that put it behind the newer stadiums. Both MMP and NRG were of the first generation of "barn" retractable roof stadium designs yet both keep them closed almost 100% of the time.
  9. shasta
    Th McNairs, who literally run a real estate development company, can develop all of that park lot land around NRG a mixed- use destination but they choose not to.
  10. shasta
    I also wonder about NRG Stadium. I fully expect to start hearing some rumblings about needing a newer stadium in the next decade. The new stadiums are light years better than what we built in 2000-2002. Hopefully they will build the new one in Ea-Do so we can have a true sports district.
  11. shasta
    Do we get these renderings before we get the Astros district that has been in the works for years?
  12. shasta
    Here is their building in Ft. Worth.
  13. shasta
    It's behind a pay wall. Didi they include a rendering of both buildings?
  14. shasta
    yes, it should be 10-20 stories taller. The building looks very squatty. They should have used horizontal line, instead of vertical, or a more"amoeba" like shape wrapping around the Embassy Suite.
  15. shasta
    Still no renderings?
  16. shasta
    Looks like GID and Hanover have partnered on projects in the past so maybe Hanover can save them for the future phases. https://gid.com/gid-and-hanover-company-announce-development-partnership-in-orange-county-ca/
  17. shasta
    How in the world did GID let Hanover outhustle them on this project? GID did all of the leg work back in 2005/6 that this area CAN support a high quality, high design, matered plan mixed use district? Then the put that vision on hold...scraped it, replaced it with a LOW quality project and then Hanover stole their playback and is reaping the REWARDS while all of the retail spaces in RS sit vacant. RD IS a valued engineered project, anyone with any architectural/real estate development can see that. How did they let this happen? If GID continues to mail it in with this project then YES please sell it to a developer that knows what they are doing. It's handed to you on a silver platter
  18. shasta
    I'd hate to think what you think of NRG Stadium- now that place is a horrible place to watch a game. It has no charm whatsoever.
  19. shasta
    ...and that area will be hopping next weekend with all of the Final Four festivities!
  20. shasta
    I just hope Crane is hoping to build a quality district with quality buildings. I'm seeing a bunch of developers VE'ing projects right now due to the market conditions or we are seeing others , like the McNairs, holding off on breaking ground.
  21. shasta
    I'm just wondering how this went from "one of the most anticipated game changing projects in Houston" to a lazy strip center pretending to be a prestigous mixed- use project. They once had it RIGHT! They had THEIR own earlier version (layout and plans) to use as a example of how to create a charming mixed use project. They had City Centre to use as an example of a successful and charming mixed use project. They had the River Oaks district to use as an example of a successful and charming mixed use project. They had West Avenue to use as an example of a successful and charming mixed use project. They even had Hanover's masterplan to use as an example of a successful and charming mixed use project. They had been working on this project since 2007 so if they let Hanover outhustle them in design, layout and attracting quality tenants...that's on them. There is definitely a market for high quality tenants in this area...Hanover found them. Here are just some examples of how cheap they went on this project. The roof top condensing units are clearly visible from the street. Any architect with a basic level of design knowledge knows to increase the parapet size to hide these units, unless the developer didn't want to pay to do so. Do we know the architect that worked on this project? The restaurant spaces are some of the worst designed spaces for a "premiere restaurant tenants " in any of the high quality developments in Houston. Compare the restaurants the any of the examples above and then compare then to the ones in Regent Square. They even had La Griglia, within WALKING DISTANCE, to see how a quality restaurant interacts with the street level. The Flight Club is way better than Georgia James. I still have trouble believing there is a restaurant there and not a warehouse. I'm really eager to see what they do with the other huge lot they own. Will it be another head scratcher of a strip center or something that feeds off the synergy, and quality, of Autry Park. At this point they should partner with Hanover as a equity partner but let Hanover manage the design part.
  22. shasta
    Any news on when they are breaking ground on phase 3, the block fronting Allen Parkway? Also, are we thinking that they will increase the quality of the new phase since they are now competing with Autry Park? What they just built was very VE'd...which was surprising for such a high profile project. Autry Park seems to be able to find tenants but every time I check there is little activity here. There is proof there are quality tenants interested in THIS area. The nail shop did open but nothing else and even if they did, the layout is so poor, it's hard to tell. Is their Regent Square office across the street, with the "model" even open anymore? This project literally started in 2007. The income producing blocks of the Allen House were demolished in 2008. If the developers of Regent Square continue to prove to be incompetent, please sell that block to Hanover and they can tie it into Autry Park.
  23. shasta
    but they will NEVER put a patch on their jersey. I'm a huge fan of the Houston Astros organization but the OXY patch is a bad move.
  24. shasta
    They continue to speak in riddles, about this project. We have nothing definitive that tells us this project is actually happening. Nothing! Crane has the money and the blocks to do this, and has for years, yet we've yet to see a single rendering or master plan- even if the rendering is very schematic. He even talked about how desperate we need this district after we played @ Atlanta in the 2021 WS. Even the Texan's NcNair family released renderings and a master plan for their fake project in Uptown! That's the one, and only thing, the McNairs have done better than Crane, release a fake rendering.
  25. shasta
    This is one of the rare projects where the actual building looks better than the rendering. The rendering makes it look like one giant wall of curtain wall. From the construction photos, looks like we are getting more deatal in the actual buildings
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