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Nucleareaction

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  1. La Tapatia holds on, but there are no other tennants in the strip facing Richmond. I wonder how much longer it has to go, or why the owner is bothering to hold onto it anymore. I don't see how anything can be done with that location, and it doesn't mesh at all with what Richmond & the neighborhood (I live down the street from this project!) is becoming.
  2. By the way, as part of the work on Dunlavy @ Allen Parkway, it looks like a stop-light intersection is being installed. As someone who has to dart across by foot and bike regularly, this will be a god-send.
  3. If only we had some sort of system to get people moving without cars on the road.... HMMMMMM
  4. Not to go crazy off topic, but it looks like that's what they have been doing for Regent Square. Ripping up elecrical utility boxes, redoing piping alongside Dunlavy...
  5. I think the ultimate issue that makes a lot of the beautification discussion kinda moot is that it's still a functional drainage waterway. We can try and control its flooding, but anything on the banks HAS to be flood-proof. No point in designing something otherwise. What that does to trash is what you hinted at - Houstonians can be careless & heartless sometimes.
  6. The tower they've cladding with brick right now! http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/27428-hanover-southampton-12-story-resi-only/
  7. I remember last year they were able to do the electric grid install then got shut down. This looks like it might be water utility work, so might just be another stutter step. I'm sure the first time a worker honks their horn at 6:59:55 am, it will be shut down.
  8. Thanks to all the replies. Far less disturbing than I had originally thought, but yes it would have been nice to just have grass lots instead of parking spaces. All that heat capture, no wonder people didn't want to walk around!
  9. Are we to understand all of those blocks used to have New Orleans style buildings on them, ala Market Square? Or were they warehouses?
  10. Something like that. Running by the empty lot on Allen Parkway the other week, i noticed they have flags all over. Looks like a layout of the streets and buildings.
  11. Saw a work crew upgrading the telecoms connections to this block yesterday, hopefully it is a good sign of things to come!
  12. I'd imagine it is because companies like Bayer, Pfizer, and Novartis already have huge offices in New Jersey. We will get them eventually, perhaps this governor can focus on that market as we already have enough Californians
  13. These, mostly. It should be an amazing retail location, but has now been taken by ANOTHER mattress shop. Granted, they were the only ones willing to take on the space and kudos to them for it. But now it means something better can't come along and we're stuck with it until the whole thing is gone in 4-5 years.
  14. Sad stuff from yesterday's run, Mattress Firm location coming to this corner. Has there ever been an audit into how exactly they make money? How many mattresses can one city need?!?
  15. To add to this, name one major city on earth that has clear water running through it. Venice, of all places, smells AWFUL for the majority of the year. Same with Bangkok, London, Vienna, Cairo, etc.
  16. After such a long period of dormancy for this site, any work is encouraging. I prefer to take the stance that they simply aren't counting chickens before the eggs hatch.
  17. My office is right across the Bayou from this, I haven't seen anything going all month. Will check again tomorrow...
  18. Perhaps when those hotels moved into Dallas, it was more of an executive and white-collar city whereas Houston was a working-class city?
  19. If you want to directly compare Houston to Chicago, I would venture to guess it goes something like this: Incorporated in 1837, Chicago got its start as a cattle and rail town. Midwest goods were funneled into Chicago and then sent East by rail and water. Their proximity to the East Coast, combined with ease of access to all that frontier land, made it a logical place for entrepreneurs and immigrants to go. Because it developed as a city before the era of cars, the density of Chicago is far greater than what Houston has. Houston on the other hand, was founded in 1836 as a bayou port, but had the far larger Galveston just down the bay. It was a swamp here back then, Galveston was right on the Gulf, and if you wanted to ship goods you'd rather send them via Dallas to Chicago, or via Galveston to New Orleans and beyond. The climate was also a massive challenge, and combined with the ease of traveling deeper into the state, not many people decided to stick around. This meant that while Houston grew as a city, it was not nearly as explosive as Chicago, nor as dense. Finally, when Houston did emerge as a large city, the era of the car had begun and who wants to live cheek-and-jowl if they don't have to? Lastly, zoning. As we all know, you can pretty well build whatever you want, wherever you want in Houston. It's a major reason why we have upwards of 5 business districts. Chicago doesn't suffer from this lack of concentration, and thus has a vibrant downtown that people care to put nice buildings into.
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