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woolie

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  1. So, I suppose garage floors have less height than office floors? 811 Main is 46 stories (9 parking) and 630ft. This is rumored to be 48 stories (12 parking). So probably net about the same.
  2. I'm joking, but yeah, sneak in to the conference with your camera
  3. It was just my prediction. I'm a pessimist We'll know in 30 minutes...
  4. My Price is Right: 25 stories office (no residential, no hotel), one side of retail.
  5. Nothing really good. The banh mi at Go Fish is OK but doesn't compare to Les Givrals or others. I had it for lunch today, in fact. Miller's Cafe has pretty good burgers. Trevisio. Beyond that it's chains and cafeterias: Au Bon Pain Chipotle Murphy's Deli
  6. Haha, well, my username refers to my wild hair and great big bushy red beard. I love the stares when I'm in "the right kinds of places." Although I usually get hassled by the police when I'm out taking pictures
  7. I spend so much time daydreaming because it's my every day surroundings. I've been interested in these urban issues since I was a kid, and I pay close attention to the streetscape. I love to walk and ride my bike around midtown and downtown, and stare out the train windows several times per week. It's why I live where I do, and why I read this forum. Speaking of empty buildings -- Houston's economy has always been on a different cycle than the rest of the country; we're up right now, but we've been down before. And back then, there were even more surface lots. Anyway, I'm not going to derail this thread any more. I've been drafting a post in my head about these issues for a while; I'll keep them collected until it's a cogent narrative, and stop spilling them into random threads.
  8. Large parts of downtown are surface lots, even areas directly adjacent to current or planned LRT stations. I travel frequently and can't help but make comparisons. Downtown has a fantastic skyline, but beyond that... I'm not criticizing this project, just grumbling about the overall state of things.
  9. Everyone likes tall buildings, but I'm really of the position that we need more midrise and small highrise structures downtown. The streetscape is so discontinuous, there are large parking lots even in the center of all the very tall highrises. I think we already have enough 40+ story buildings downtown, and I would be surprised if there is *ever* another 60+ story building in Houston. That era is over. In dream land, downtown would have more 6-10 story small office buildings, and apartment buildings of roughly the same size, clustering around the vast disused but LRT-adjacent areas. There are office buildings of this size strung along every freeway in town. I just wish more of them were in part of an urban fabric, not just bumps surrounded by gated employee parking. I suppose most of these were built in the 70s and 80s before the current "urban revival" around the country...... but I go to a place like the Memorial City development and think "If only this effort was used to build a real urban fabric, not just a thin veneer around a typical, totally controlled suburban development." I know it can be done, even in contemporary America -- Portland, modern Los Angeles... Also, as long as I'm in Sim City God Mode, I would demolish the Pierce Elevated. Anyway end rant.
  10. It would take a couple years for a project announced tomorrow to have tenants move in.
  11. I think alot of this is just the street grid being in alignment with the view.
  12. Enough people clicked "Like" that I'm tempted to actually do it. Aren't there some "Thai Massage" places just down the street along Shepard? Maybe they can move in... hahaha.
  13. I think this weekend I will make some poster signs and go have a Pro-Ashby celebration on the sidewalk. I'll bring a video camera to get the license plates of people who yell obscene things at me.
  14. They are making good progress. I just noticed it for the first time the other day as I came off the freeway during the day. It gets dark so early in DST that I hadn't seen it until now
  15. Baldwin park is nice, but I think it is a little too "plain." My favorite "open spaces" in the city that I use on a regular basis: Rice University student center, near the middle of campus The renovated area in the middle of Hermann park (cafe/pond/train area) Discovery Green I guess more "Union square" than "Memorial park." Part of the urban fabric, not just a patch of grass with a playground and softball field.
  16. I walk to that rail stop and use it all the time -- in fact, today. I cry a little on the inside every time I look across at the giant empty super block. Very excited to see this; hopefully this and the new Arts complex are "real."
  17. UrbanLiving put up a sign at Jackson & Drew. Any details? Nothing on their site yet. The block is about 50% filled in with townhomes, and 50% empty. I suppose this is a 3 or 4 townhouse development that will fill in half the remaining empty space.
  18. Sounds great! Been waiting a while for development to pick up again in East Midtown...
  19. Yes, I was told basically the same information a couple weeks ago by my salesman at Momentum.
  20. Montrose is much denser and more walkable, and altogether more pleasant.. But also much more $$$. Everyone on this side of midtown is here because it's a great neartown location, but moreso because it's comparatively cheap. So let's at least take a step back and realize that the reason it's cheap is because of the concentration of homeless/transients and their services in the area. I wonder why the realtors don't put this on their flyers? Anyway, sure, we'd like to get rid of the homeless once we live here, but if it was already completely gentrified, the majority of us wouldn't have been able to move here in the first place.
  21. I remember the original renderings when the Mercer was announced -- it did have them back to back instead of side to side. This side to side rendering is new to me.
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