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    I think it would be a great place to put a Greyhound Bus Station.
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    I was in kindergarten when this thread started and now I'm in an old folks home.
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    O happy day!
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    Like Embassy never existed. As far as Disco Green is concerned anyway.
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    You have a lot of friends in high places. 🙂
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    If I went to that drive in theater, I'd probably be looking a the downtown skyline more than the movie.
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    I sure wish we had one of these right now. Or an Ike dike.
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    Almost 400 feet. That's pretty tall for Midtown.
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    I say we give trump just ONE more chance. On second thought, let's not. Covid cases - 750,000 Covid deaths - 40,000 American unemployment - 22,000,000 Price of Oil - $0 Face it. MAGA is dead. And KAG never had a chance.
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    Yawn. Where's my 53 story Midtown tower?
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    The building site is buzzing with activity at this moment.
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    Not saying you should love it or like it, but this building is NOT shit. Almost everything around it IS shit and there is a huge difference. I don't get your shit analogy at all on this one. It doesn't matter to me who built it or how long it took them or whether or not the market has changed or even if they didn't build it to my exact preferred taste. Visually, it's still a major improvement and makes Midtown better IMO. To use your shit analogy, I would say its more like being in possession of a perfectly healthy digestive system that only does what it is supposed to do as opposed to having a bad case of explosive diarrhea. Just like my internal plumbing, this building isn't glamorous, I won't be bragging about it to anyone. I'm just thankful it works and that it isn't leaving a huge mess everywhere (like the buildings across the street are). ☺️ Like everyone else, I want the best we can get. I'm not so sure that the market has changed so much that this isn't the best we could get in the here and now. Houston's economy is like skating on thin ice sometimes. I've seen enough booms and busts to know that this lot could have remained a grass field for the rest of my life. How many years old is the Regency Square proposal? I'm hoping for better buildings than this in Midtown in the future too, but I can't forget where we came from and where we are. And this building puts us in a better place than we were.
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    Cheer up. It's not that bad. The positives far outweigh the negatives. Personal taste issues like keystones, brick colors, top heaviness and the non-contemporary style of this building are nothing compared to the pathetic buildings that are just across the street in any direction. Although I wouldn't have chosen this building style or look out of a catalog, this building is far down my list of buildings to complain about in Midtown. I think at this point with so many buildings I'd love to see replaced in the area, I'm just focusing on whether a building is helping or hurting Midtown. This one is definitely helping Midtown regardless of whether or not every detail meets with one's personal taste or style.
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    Thank you, but you can keep your poop all to yourself. I can smell your opinion from here. 😷 I don't have any problems with this building. It certainly is no prize, but I know it's definitely moving Midtown in the right direction and it's better looking than anything built on any of the adjacent blocks (at least for now). I may learn to hate this building more in the future if Caydon takes over the rest of Midtown and everything starts looking like Laneways and Drewery Place. But until then Midtown could do much worse and HAS done much worse than this building - or maybe you'd prefer another suburban style CVS on this block too.
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    No. It's all good.
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    The real thing looks better than the rendering this time. This is a real winner in my book. 😃
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    And I guess they could have sat on that land for another 20 years if they had wanted to or sold it to another company that didn't give poo about even giving that land 'the illusion' of 'urban' or 'walkability' or park access. Camden or somebody else might have built something that looked just like the one of the 300 other buildings in Midtown you seem to have less or no problem with. I'm only asking this because I don't know. Is the MRA building the park on the superblock or is Camden? Was Camden forced to build a park on that land? Could Camden have built apartments on their part of the land and left the MRA side alone? Are there any other developers besides Camden building parks for or with the MRA in Midtown? BTW, I don't think you are wrong to 'wish' for something better. I agree that this isn't the 'best' design that could have been implemented. When is it ever? Anything can always be better (to someone). But I think this is clearly looking like one of the best blocks that Midtown has EVER had. So it's very hard for me to take seriously any criticism that it wasn't made perfect, at least in the here and now. I might feel different about it in the future if the rest of Midtown starts looking like San Francisco, but until then I'm going to enjoy looking at this new 'superblock'. Luckily if someone has a real problem with how the superblock is turning out, they can just wonder over a few blocks in any direction and feast their eyes on that beautiful suburban style CVS, gas station, bus terminal, tin warehouse or one of the many, many other beautiful structures that exist in Midtown. No, let's not rag on any of those. Let's just keep sticking it to the developer that built that ugly tree lined, garden filled park next to the mid rise apartment building and light rail station in the middle of what was once considered scenic Midtown.
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    Again. There are more deserving buildings in Midtown to rag on. Hundreds of them. Some them didn't even bother to turn part of the land into a park at all. In fact, none of them did. Camden is the only one I can think of that did that. Do you know how many years that 'superblock' was an empty lot before Camden turned part of it into a park? I don't know. I don't remember what was there before Camden except for a giant empty weed patch. Surely something was there before. Was it nicer than what is there now? I wish the city or Camden had made the whole superblock a park but really, you're lucky Camden didn't turn the entire superblock in to apartments or worse. This is Houston, remember? There could have been a car dealership, strip mall, parking lot or warehouse there instead. How would that have effected the walkability of Midtown? But by all means forget where we came from and rag on. Maybe you'll get a new dry cleaners out of it.
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    That's right. No legs. At this rate, your iPhone will eliminate the need to get out of bed altogether, unless you're being paid to do it. Just kidding. I know there is at least a 'desire' if not a need for walkability. I prefer the residential buildings with GFR too. But the last mall I went to didn't make me feel very optimistic about the future of shops that nobody really needs anymore. My only real point is why rag on Camden, when Midtown has so many genuine monstrosities to rally against. dbigtex's has every right to complain about Camden's issues. I don't really disagree with him. But IMO there are so many more qualified structures in Midtown to call for the destruction of than Camdens. At least Camdens "look" more inviting to walk in front of than most of Midtown.
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    I think Midtown is way better and more beautiful than it used to be and some blocks are so much better that I can hardly believe my eyes. But most of the streets (particularly east of Main) look about the same to me as they always did. A jumbled mess of parking lots, junky looking buildings, various distances from the buildings to the sidewalks, no cohesiveness, ect. 100 years? 35 years? What's the difference? Most of it has looked pretty run down in my lifetime. My point is most of Midtown is still not that great and Camden's are FAR BETTER than what we currently have on many of those blocks. In fact, I think they have helped Midtown way more than hurt it. So no need to call for their destruction just yet. I get your concerns with Camden. They are far from ideal. But if I could replace every instance of this: and this: with this: and this: I would. Not saying these Camdens are making Midtown much more walkable. But at least they look better and they aren't making Midtown less walkable. They are putting more people in the city center, so just their very existence is helping walkability. No it isn't NYC or SF, but it's not bad for Houston. Besides, there's more to life than 'walkability'. I have a feeling that 'walkability' is on it's way out in the rest of the world anyway. It will just be turned into a novelty by the internet - like vinyl records. But please keep fighting for perfection and don't let them off the hook! Surely Midtown wouldn't be improving each and every day if it wasn't for all the complaints on HAIF.
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    One day you might even be glad the streets of Midtown are aligned with flowers and gardens instead of a bunch of abandoned buildings and empty storefronts. Dreams are wonderful but sometimes you have to make the best out of what you've got. Damn real world! Midtown is light years better than it was in the 90s and before, but most of it still looks like it always did. These Camden thingys may not be an urbanist's dream but they are easier on the eye than what still exist on dozens and dozens and dozens of fugly blocks that still need improvement in Midtown. Given a choice of spending the remainder of my life with what already exist on most of these blocks and large apartments that fill the whole block and are built up to the sidewalk WITHOUT GFR (which is getting more irrelevant by the day), I'll take the Camden style any day. And please spare me that "but maybe somebody else might build something better on that lot in the future" argument. 100+ years of urban blight is long enough for Midtown.
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    July 4, 2019
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