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  1. I’d actually be very curious to know where each player on the roster lived. I actually wouldn’t be shocked if most lived “in town”.
  2. Rumored practice facility? Probably not but it would make more sense than Clear Lake as mentioned in the article. https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/10-08-18-toyota-center-turns-15-houston-rockets-tilman-fertitta-tad-davis-houston-astros-jim-crane/
  3. I agree 100% about the seats. The facade is where majority of the work is needed. Extend the facade closer to the street on both Polk and La Branch with a more modern look and materials. I’d like to see it squared off similar to Little Caesars arena in Detroit.
  4. Would be a good time to start on that “major overhaul” that Tilman mentioned in 18”
  5. Does this look cheaply built? I can’t imagine spending 1.1 mil on this. Am I in the minority or is this nice?
  6. The Laura Hotel, Autograph Collection by Marriott. The valet says they’ve been open for two weeks- not sure how we missed this one.
  7. Main building is no modern marvel but whatever I’ll take it 😁
  8. We actually have more space to work with if the church allows the Astros to build their garage underground. Also, we’re lucky in the sense that we have the ability for our complex to front the stadium. Colorado’s is separate by the freeway which is why I think they went with the design they did. There’s no reason for the Astros not to have better interaction at street level.
  9. Add that water sculpture thing in front of GRB. That thing stopped working almost immediately.
  10. Ahhh ok. Was hoping they were doing something with the exterior there.
  11. More upgrades? This is the old ticket window area that’s no longer used. Kind of a dead spot on this side of the stadium.
  12. I dislike the design on that sign very much. Do you know if this is the new rendering? If so, it’s 1000x better.
  13. I get what you’re saying. My initial rebuttal was more to you’re comment about him just building a parking garage with retail when he’s already stated he’ll build an apartment and/or hotel on that site. I’m not expected a 40 story tower but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him go relatively high here.
  14. I thought about the idea of abandoning Avenida as well but redoing it and keeping it open as more of a passage way to the park for fans coming from Discovery Green area. That’s wheel is a fantastic idea and in a way would be the offspring of the failed Texas museum that was planned there not long ago.
  15. For reference here is the whole Ballpark village in St Louis (google earth pic). I envision the yellow lot to house a building similar to the Twitter pic but with most activity facing Avenida Americas given the rectangle shape of the lot. Of course they could just put something like this in the bigger lot and use the church lot as more of a courtyard.
  16. I actually think it’s a great thing that he compared it to those two. He’s also mentioned in years past about touring these entertainment specific venues for baseball. You can’t mention all that and proceed to lay an egg. That freeway and cap seem so far off that it’s hard to even imagine. Don’t they need more funding for the cap separate from the freeway expansion? Either way, you can get a better idea by listening to his comments. I actually think he’s just pumping up how the area will become even more desirable.
  17. It’s not in the article (typical Chron 🙄) but Crane mention specifically that he has hope that the Chruch would let him build an underground parking lot on that site. He joked that since the nuns have been at the games that he has a little more leverage now lol. I don’t think he mentions this without being confident in being able to do so. This was said at the end of the year press conference so the comments are very recent.
  18. Just for fun here’s my uneducated guess on how this is developed. Red= Multi-story Apartments & Hotel (mix-use) Yellow= 2-3 story stand alone building with some restaurant/bars/entertainment Green= 2-3 story buildings w/ More Restaurants/Bar/entertainment & New team store. Red & Green buildings open and integrate into the open space courtyard for dinning and game watching on the big screen. Might be too much courtyard space here but I won’t get too picky. We have more space to develop here than the Colorado Rockies had but less space than the St. Louis Cardinals have. I’m really looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.
  19. I’ve always liked this idea by you. Combining that lot at CF and the wasted green space would be pretty cool. But now that we know for sure (have know for a while now) that the ballpark village will be where home plate bar used to be, idk that it would make sense to build something similar and pull game day traffic away from the ballpark village. The hall of fame building would work on the grass but building something on that empty lot would have to make more financial sense IMO- Unless he only owns the small parcel that the old halfway house sat on and not the whole block. I can definitely see an Alexan style apartment on that whole block with some GFR at the corner.
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