Daniepwils
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Kinda of off the topic. Is it Krogers or Randalls that is in this shopping center and is it still there? or are they tearing it down as well? -- was talking with someone at work and I used to shop there all the time and for the life of me can't remember. -
Now if they could get rid of the few that sleep on the tables near the Cookie place across from The Flying Saucer... lol, its always the same three or four. There is one guy that has been down on main for the past 6 years. He is usually around CVS now. He is african american, usually wearing a cape and wind pants. The only words I have ever hear him say is "spare and change" "spare any change" "spare any change". Every since I had a homeless guy lunge at me for my orange, I haven't given them anything off the street. Safer anyways to give through other means.
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I do like the way Dallas keeps their major freeways kept up (trash and plants, etc.). Houston for the main part does not (remember when the superbowl was coming, and the city halfassed put up plants, shrubs and trees along the freeways, and didn't really keep up with them -- looked very bad!) You would think we would have nice landscaped areas around our highways, that is probably the first area that people will see Houston. Also DART is pretty amazing -- I really envy Dallas for the DART. Not to mention the zoning in Dallas, which keeps property values high (normally). OK the real topic again... Downtown Houston night life is dead or rather moving to other areas, as clubs always do! (Now The Flying Saucer and a few other "spots" are still packed every evening --but not the clubs) I am scared though about some restarurants that I hear have closed in the past two weeks. Mia Bella hang in there!
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DT Dallas isn't very nice (West End is the exception). Even the Dallas tunnel system isn't very good -- I even think at one time they tried to get the businesses in the tunnels to move up to the steet. Not sure what happened. Dallas does have zoning, which I like alot! to bad we don't! Houston's tunnel system is something people often forget about. I think they are great due to our weather at times, but I also think they hinder the way people think of downtown Houston (remind yourself, we are not a major tourist destination city!)
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Wasn't there a movie with IceCube in it where they would offer homeless people money to go "hunting" with them? anyone remember that (lol) -- That would be one way to reduce the homeless population in the area. (this is a joke -- of course!)
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Embassy Suites By Hilton Houston Downtown At 1515 Dallas St.
Daniepwils replied to ricco67's topic in Downtown
Friday (August 31) at about 2pm I hear these "bangs" and really think nothing of it. I am in 5 Houston Center, and am right next to the new Fingers building and the new park. So hearing bangs is kind of the norm. At around 4 I look out and they have a machine tearing up this building. -- The kid in me was dreaming "I wish I was down there tearing up a building in that big monster machine", it looked really fun! -
L O L -- My biggest complaint is the homeless population in downtown. I cringe everytime my friends talk about what they saw when coming to visit me. There is a law in place for the downtown area where you cannot be loitering in downtown after a certain time. No sitting or sleeping, but it isn't usually enforced unless complained upon. There is mentally disturbed individual that walks around Main and Travis from time to time, swearing at windows and signs. He is a bit loud. I have called the authorities twice on occasion. And they respond within minutes. They never arrest him, but they do ask him to leave. There are shelters in place near downtown, however they might be full, or some people don't want to obey the policies and rules, so they aren't allowed to stay. I don't give money to the people on the streets, had an incident, and will not put myself in that situation again. I rather donate to the shelters and another charity that my company sponsors.
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I wouldn't mind them so much if I didn't almost trip over them at night or have to hear them say: "Hey you! Spare any change!", one more time. Not to mention the fecal matter and smell at some of these corners on Main Street. This is one of the biggest reasons Main Street has not taken off -- I can't wait for these other new developments, maybe then they will enforce the loitering laws in downtown -- and maybe then my already overpriced loft will double in value (lol jk). I know our downtown has great potential (which is why I bought in downtown), but we really need to kick it up a notch, keeping the streets clean at all times would help. (I will give props to HPD patrolling often down Main street)
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I don't know if there were anymore buyers. I don't think there are at the moment. I do know that the one I looked at was 170.46 per sq.ft. (1730sqft). I think the smaller ones were 200+ per sq.ft.
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The owner is a bank in Ohio or something. The seem to want more money than listed. I basically told them they would not get it! This is not New York... it is Houston, everyone has a car. There is no parking for the building. Which still wouldn't be a problem really except most of the parking garages in downtown actually close in the evenings. So if you did "rent" a parking spot in one of those garages, your car would be stuck in the garage or you have the chance of being locked out of your garage after a certain hour. Even then if you could live with that, trying to sell these down the road is going to be very hard.
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They are for sale now! I looked at two today. They are alright. They just went on the market. I think there are about 4 people living there. I am giving them an offer today, lets see if they bite! Main. Fees seem a bit much for that place though.
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I live downtown and drive to see friends or shop in midtown (gotta love Spec's) or the Rice area, and usually take main street all the way down. I do see a bit of "shady people" from downtown through midtown EVERY time I drive through there. Few times I have been at a light and been approached (usually at dusk or at night) by some of them (money, cigs, sex - um yea, really gross, etc.), I just look ahead and don't acknowledge them, even though that might make them upset, Id rather be safe than sorry. Just be careful all I have to say! This is a BIG city, s$$t happens.
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Is downtown night life fizzling? I rarely stay at my place on the weekends in downtown anymore.
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GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Daniepwils replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
Couldn't agree more! (But I don't like the fact that people waiting for busses like to urinate in my buildings bushes, YUCK) -
I am lazy lol. Let me see if I can find it. Was searching for a friend one day for stuff to rent in downtown, and came across it. I will post when I find. http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/TX-Ho...ts-on-Main.html http://www.apartmentreviews.net/ratings/tx...n-main10827.htm
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If you read the postings on this place (google it), it sounds horrible. Many many complaints I think.
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I hear ya on that one. Geez, it seems like it gets worse every week.
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Tunnels ...YUCK We should really start thinking above ground more if we want to attract people to downtown. Most Houstonian's don't even know there is a tunnel system downtown, and I doubt the tunnel system would ever be used for more than anything that it already is being used for now, a shelter from the hot weather.
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The Tunnel system is good if you know it... Took me a year to use all of it really. Also, the tunnel system is not open on the weekends, and most of it closes around 6-8pm during the week, to keep the homeless out.
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I think this garage under the park is being built because they are "hoping" that the lots around the park will be replaced with buildings. Most office buildings with parking garages, aren't open on the weekend, so if there were no parking offered around the park on the weekend then the park would not be used on the weekend. (I hope we get ride of all these surface lots)
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Well it looks like the parking garage under the park will be two floors, which equals the two parking lots it was taking away. Honestly though there is a MASSIVE amount of surface parking lots around this area, and it is such an eye sore. When they start to build more buildings around here, more parking garages will appear, which is less space to take up, and more land for other buildings or maybe mini-parks. As for prices... this side of downtown is CHEAP compared to the other side of downtown. Before I lived downtown and worked at the Wells Fargo Plaza Building (71floor building with only three levels of parking) I paid almost 400 a month for reserved parking spot. I live downtown now so I just walk to work. A reserved spot in this building is around 200 I think (but I am sure some of that pricing has to do with how much space this garage has compared to that garage) -- also, someone noted earlier seeing surface lots always empty. Well some are (there are a few near the Toyota Center) because they are being disputed at the moment. I think the owner died and now the children are fighting over what to do with it, so they aren't being used (this is second hand information so not sure how accurate it is). Most of the surface lots are used around this area all the time, the GRB is always being used in some way or the other, maybe not to full capacity, and lets not forget the HUGE parking garage that the Hilton has, majority of GRB parking is there I believe. The only lots that stay empty are the ones on the far left end of MMP, which are only used on game days.
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As of today! Some of these have a horrible glare, so I took more than one, sorry about that. This next picture is of the Fingers building (40 floor residential) they are building. It is located next to my building (5 Houston), it will be in front of The Houston Center (formally The Park Shops) and also it will be right next to Discovery Green (that name is so not right {LOL}, sounds like a putt-putt golf course). This picture shows how close the Fingers building is to Discovery Green (right next to each other)
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Ha-Ha looks like I came back just in time. Well I am back for good! I have been traveling for the last three months and haven't really been in the Houston office all that much. I will take some pictures tomorrow (don't have my camera on me today). I will include some pictures of the "Fingers" building they are building right next to the park.
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GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Daniepwils replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
Yep! Saw the Tent and everything!! about time -
New Name for the Park -- Penis Park I was taking a picture to put on this board when one of my coworkers comes in my office and looks at the park and starts to laugh...then informs me of the penis shaped dirt outline. Needless to say it was pretty funny, when you realize it.
