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    Valobra just built a huge new store on a lot next to St.Anne's church down the street so I'm sure that space is being leased out.
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    It's chugging along, entertainment is so far what's been subscribed to the most in terms of what's been taken. I know the F/B component is progressing as well.
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    No, it seems like it's there in the back with the green roof?
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    Since we all pay taxes to maintain street, who exactly gets to demand parking is "spilling" onto public residential streets? Such an elitist way of thinking... That area has been commercial for over 100 years and used to be denser so there is not exactly anything new under the sun here. If you want a private street where no one can park there are plenty of those in Cypress or The Woodlands.
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    UH is not undefunded, and if you don't think that's exactly what people do with bad schools then what are all these charter schools doing in the carcasses of bad HISD schools that couldn't compete? People don't seems to understand this is about creating more slots and capacity for students. A city of 7 million can't have one "ok" public option. Seriously who would turn away a free state level gift. FYI, it's also a dropout factory with less than 50% of students ever graduating and we are talking about the main campus. UT Dallas for example has a graduation rate of 60%. "Overall, 49.4% of U of H Undergrads Finish Within Six Years"
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    That's like saying you shouldn't build a new good highschool because there's a crappy one in the area that will lose students. Like who cares, education is about benefiting students, not a monopolizing rent seeking institution. Do you see University of Dallas or SMU complaining about another resource for their city?
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    That's not what killed what killed it, had more to do with returns.
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    Is the exterior surface supposed to look like that? Looks like soggy cardboard to me with the undulating ripples.
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    I don't think many people here get how high quality projects by Rem Koolhaas/OMA tend to be, it's obviously not going to be easy and fast. The project is advancing on the inside and I know several leases have been signed so it's starting within a few months. The second phase has highrises (3-4), I don't think anyone has posted those renders here.
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    LOL, who are these "people"? Oh yes, it's the city and the site's owner, Midway who corrupt everything they touch. Same people proposing a TIRZ funded trolley to their isolated site while there are literally hundreds of acres of empty lots within a block of light-rail access. Not a dime should going towards making their property easy to lease while there is so much left to waste closer to downtown on existing infrastructure investments.
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    Where did you get RA sushi from? That RA is the name of the vintage furniture place currently there, have they said anything?
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    Impressive line-up though they are taking so long some retailers like Scoop NYC don't even exist anymore lol. Would be really impressed if Soho House and a few others were actually present.
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    Their store on Westheimer is such a disappointment compared to the design of their other stores outside Texas. Hopefully this one is better.
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    Lol, claiming to be first chef driven food hall in the world. These chef's counter food halls are all over, especially in Seoul or like Sarona market Tel Aviv etc.
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    This developer owns the pad of the CVS by the coffee plant and many others like Waught so it's for sure. Sprouts has been in negotiations forever.
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    Only in Houston could an area with 2 large universities be such a disaster and have people wanting to preserve it exactly as is segregation and all... Why would anyone want a neighborhood dominated by one ethic group in the 21 century? This should be a booming university neighborhood and it's not. UH needs to jumpstart cleaning up the area.
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    Maybe look glamorous, don't require much water, can grow surrounded by concrete without lifting it up, are ever-green, create focal points and don't litter a parking lot with 4 tons of leaves annually? How can a tree be tacky lol?
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    Wait, they are trenching it when? Right now there is a massive tent community on Caroline so all they did was move in that direction. City needs to fence off asap
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    Why does everyone think Sears is the problem and not the massive pariah filled housing project across the street and the Men's Center?
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    In case you did not notice, the average person can't afford to relocate to a new city and have their own housing at 17-18. Even dorms are out of reach for the average family without financing. Extremely privileged view point, do you know the average person dies within less then 40 miles of where they were born? The average person can't afford to leave their city, much less without family support. So say I'm the child of poor migrant workers as over 25-30% of Houston is and I have 2 siblings. Can my parents with no credit history afford to send me to Dallas with added cost of a dorm? Would they even if they could, risking losing a child that may not come back? Would they trust their child in a far away city alone? So you are saying A&M which is literally 100 MILES from downtown Houston is a Houston school? If I'm poor and have to take bus, it's 50 dollars round trip. If parents are dishwashers, that's over a day of work of disposable income. Does that seem like a real option? And of you think Rice serves the Houston community you are dreaming. 57% is from out of state and with really small classes that means literally less than 1,500 TEXANS [Not Houston alone] have a chance of getting in.
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    Exactly; the amount of "privilege" on this forum is crazy. Fascinating these comments come from people who obviously consider themselves better educated and more cosmopolitan with references to NYC, Boston, Kinkaid etc as if no one else here has lived in NYC or gone to a preparatory school. The fact is that education is a right and not a privilege and that by granting UH a monopoly on a decent public education in Houston you are denying education to people in the Houston community who would benefit from another option. UH exist for the benefit of the Houston population, not the other way around...
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    You do realize UCLA has to share it's turf with over 10 large public campuses right?: Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Dominguez hills, Call State Long Beach, Cal State La, ect not including 10 + private universities. UH needs to stop being a crooked institution. Renu Khantor is the HIGHEST paid public university president at 1.3 million USD and literally chairs over UHD which is labeled by the department of education as a DROPOUT factory... like seriously? https://www.texastribune.org/2016/07/17/three-top-four-highest-paid-university-executives-/ UH is not preparing the graduates we need neither in quality or quantity. Is this what Houston deserves? Absolutely not
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    There's nothing organic about Upper Kirby, the TIRZ widened the road and landscaped it to look like a mini highway with cars going 40+ on it. It's a major thoroughfare and try crossing the street at Kirby and Whole Foods on a bike to see how long can happen without getting hit lol... None of the things mentioned except for Kuhl Lindscome embrace the street they are part of in an open way.
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