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  1. Reporter
    I'm guessing you hear that a lot.
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    Only 15 floors! This is an outrage! Whenever I go to visit a 5 star hotel, the first thing I check out is the floor count of the building. I won't stay at a hotel that is only 15 stories! EVER! Service, location and accommodation are irrelevant. What people really care about is how many rooms and how many floors their hotel has. A W Hotel with only 15 floors is completely pointless and no one will ever stay there. All the convention business will go to other cities, where they build taller hotels and cater to a more sophisticated population. Houston will never live down this shame. It's worse than being snubbed by Amazon! And no, the fact that it is 15 floors sitting on top of 10 floors that are already built - making the total floor count 25 doesn't count. It has to be at least 30 floors or else we suck! PATHETIC!
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    No, they were a bunch of suburban burger flippers and short-sighted teabaggers.
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    GREAT NEWS! The voters are idiots.
  6. Reporter
    Those are some of the coolest (compositionally pleasing) crane photos I've ever seen. Especially the last one. Well done!
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    ...And one the the greatest urban parks in the nation, within walking distance to the CBD and connected via pedestrian bridge. Try to look at the big picture. Screw walkability anyway. This is a car centric city and will continue to be well after you're dead and buried. This is the best project that could ever be built on that spot - in the here and now. I like that it will expand the downtown skyline to the west. There is already a clump of towers (one 40 stories) at Montrose and Allen Pkwy. This project will go a long way connecting it with the CBD.
  8. Reporter
    Would that be the left or the right?
  9. Reporter
    Yes, Houston needs more flat roofs. Slants are so slanty.
  10. Reporter
    It's too flat.
  11. Reporter
    Here they are, purple lunatic.
  12. Reporter
    Don't need to look across the ocean.
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    9,708 posts? Wow, that's a lot of bitching!
  15. Reporter
    Do you ever stop bitching?
  16. Reporter
    Nonsense.
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    ...Unless you don't consider GFR an to be an 'improvement'. Some outsiders are more impressed with looking at big skylines than they are with being able to walk to Starbucks. I guess it depends on if you are trying to please the 1% who will live and visit the area or the 99% that will just drive by it on their way to go to somewhere else. My dream of one day seeing the Downtown skyline connected to the TMC skyline, through Midtown will take decades to achieve (if ever). Anything that helps that happen is an exciting idea to me. Another little structure in Midtown doesn't do anything to expand the skyline. Maybe if I lived in Midtown right now and were someone who might benefit from walking to retail (a dying concept, internet deliveries are the future) or Midtown already had a decent skyline, I might see it your way. I don't know if this rendering is accurate, but it looks like most of us are going to get what we want on that spot. It looks like a high rise with some kind of GFR.
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    I can see how living in a walkable urban neighborhood would be an attractive feature, especially to those who live in a city that doesn't have a lot of them - but the whole idea of impressing guest, as if that's a good reason to do anything, makes me want to hurl. Hopefully we'll all get what we want, but seeing the 369' on this thread is the only thing that makes this project interesting to me.
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    Why would someone who lives in a city with a walkable neighborhood want to visit another city that's exactly like where they came from? All my visitors hate walking anywhere. They just want to be chauffeured around town (by me). I'm only interested in my own personal vision for Houston. Your visitors can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico. Just kidding.
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    Not me. GFR isn't everything. I think its high time Midtown started to develop a real skyline of it's own and a "beautiful" 3 story building wouldn't cut it for me even if it had the greatest GFR in Texas. Don't get me wrong, I want it to have GFR too, but not at the expense of this building doing whatever it can to help connect the DT and TMC skylines. Even if it isn't 40-stories, a 369' building in Midtown is significant and I hope this is the beginning of a trend. This and the 3 high rises proposed across from the Midtown park superblock will go a long way in making my own personal midtown dreams come true. If enough of these high rises take off, the GFR will come organically out of necessity anyway.
  21. Reporter
    I once knew someone who didn't like the color blue. Go figure.
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    These renderings scream "FRAUDULENT SCHEME" at first glance to me. Out of all of Houston outlandish and far-fetched proposals and grandiose renderings, this one looked custom ordered for born suckers. Notice the sales office that, according to their website, was supposed to be there in 2008:
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    Density isn't everything. I like the mix of great architecture and a beautiful green space. This perspective is really unique to Houston. Most skylines aren't blessed with a gorgeous front lawn.
  24. Reporter
    A good parking space is a huge benefit in the real world (Houston 2017). Parking spaces are only the enemy when you go on the internet or whenever you realize that you aren't good enough to live in New York or Chicago or SF. But even in those cities, I never heard anyone complaining about parking right in front of where they are going - at least in real life.
  25. Reporter
    That's what they said about Williams tower but they got over it.
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