Jump to content

woolie

Full Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    820

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    17

 Content Type 

Everything posted by woolie

  1. woolie
    20 more blocks of this would be great.
  2. woolie
    Dallas has buildings?
  3. woolie
    It's a beautiful building. I intend to go see the inside this weekend.
  4. woolie
    The freeway is a single point of failure. Putting streets a mile apart was probably not a good idea.
  5. woolie
    Nice building, but these belong inside the loop. I guess someone forgot to close the gate and all the horses got out?
  6. woolie
    I'd love to move to a downtown condo, except for the outrageous $/sf cost and maintenance fees compared to a townhouse a mile away. I'd probably have to downsize by about 50%. Also, I'd have to sell my current house and unlikely that is going to happen in this shitty market. But yeah. At least, for others, it would make great residential rentals
  7. woolie
    Construction to begin later this month. http://www.bisnow.com/real-estate-hou/2012/04/11/cranes-rise-across-houston/
  8. woolie

    113 Gray St.

    woolie replied to DrLan34's topic in Midtown

    This is a reasonable development. Would prefer it to be larger, but at least it preserves the street facade, and doesn't use the entire block.
  9. woolie
    Hmm, I keep hearing rumors that the Greyhound terminal is moving to out of Midtown and into this area of the Woodlands.
  10. woolie
    Attitudes and cultural habits are shifting. And even Texas cities are going to become much denser in the urban cores over the next 30 years. Alot of young people today find the idea of a big suburban house with >1 cars per person as antiquated as a horse and buggy. These things are huge commitments that eat up valuable personal income and are anchors that chain a person to a specific place in an economy that increasingly requires mobility. Post-War America was the product of a very specific geopolitical and economic situation and brought into fashion alot of ideas that contradicted thousands of years worth of knowledge about human settlements. But much of this was created and marketed as a product and a lifestyle, without any regard to sustainability or long term quality of life over the lifespan of a city (hundreds or thousands of years -- think about how new Houston in that context). So, I don't think the current trend towards urbanity is anything new, but rather the predictable passing of a fad and reversion to the mean of what was carefully sorted out over hundreds of generations. Anyway, Houston and Dallas are already both in the top 5 statistical metro areas for population at 6m and 6.5m people. Austin and SA add another 2m a piece and completes a natural triangle. HSR from downtown to downtown isn't just viable, it's a prudent and proven solution. And these investments are cooperative; the more urban transit and intermodal connections exist, the higher the return on infrastructure investment. We've spent many decades now and trillions of dollars to build out our automobile infrastructure, expecting endless exponential improvements in automobile technology. But instead it's become incremental improvements -- a little better gas mileage, a little safer in a crash, etc. Perhaps we've reached a point of diminishing returns and re-open some settled questions.
  11. woolie
    ...
  12. woolie
    Oh boy. Here we go. I heard through the grapevine that they are moving the Greyhound terminal to The Woodlands, across from the new Anadarko Tower as part of the settlement to keep from being annexed. Newly released convicts will be dropped off next to the station, with a helpful map highlighting the most generous areas -- schools, retail parking lots, and high property value subdivisions.
  13. woolie
    I have been to the Sundance at least five times now. It is easily the best theater in town. The seats are large and comfortable, with a separation between pairs of seats. Validated parking. Also, no screaming children. This theater is the way movies are meant to be seen. In fact, I'm going again this week. I also frequently went to the Angelika for many years, but the upgrades Sundance made are significant.
  14. woolie
    See. This is what people should build in midtown. Someone inform Capital Retail.
  15. woolie
    No. 50 story tower is the most anyone could ever hope for on any downtown lot for the foreseeable future.
  16. woolie
    Can we put a freestanding McDonalds on the site? With a drive through.
  17. woolie
    No one on this forum has a drone with a camera? Regular old realtors are using them on frequently on HAR listings now.
  18. woolie
    It will be wonderful for all these employees to never have to interact with outsiders, and Exxon never have to worry about anything happening near their site. I'm sure it will be a beautiul hamster cage.
  19. woolie
    I work mostly from home, because it's my office that is too distracting. I am also a night person and my most productive hours are 12am-6am.
  20. woolie
    Haha.. Ok, revising my prediction. 1 story, 9 million square feet. Maybe an office tower next year, then. Sounds like Nancy's article is the "big announcement." Or I could wake up and be wrong (a common occurrence.)
  21. woolie
    Most people who know for sure probably don't work evenings. Just us building geeks think it's breaking news.
  22. woolie
    I don't think 600+ ft is that common. It would make it #1 or 2 in Houston since the 80s.
  23. woolie
    I guess we'll get pictures after this thing is over, or tomorrow.
  24. woolie
    14,000sf building on a whole city block? What a waste. And the McGowen side will be a concrete wall with no entrances? Might as well have built another CVS. In 2012, this is embarrassing for midtown. This is 2 blocks from a light rail station.
  25. woolie
    Having the retail stores is one of the main things I like about using Apple products. I can talk to someone IN PERSON for warranty and service issues. I'm ordering a new MacBook Air this week. It will be the fourth Apple laptop I've had, and like the seventh or eighth Mac I've had. However, Best Buy also sells the power adapters They close at 10.
×
×
  • Create New...