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  1. crock
    between this, the bellrock, and the Art House, how many Units is that coming online after covid in First Ward? 1000?
  2. crock
    wow this is much bigger than I thought, surprised they're not bothering to incorporate any of the houses currently on that block. also a bummer that the menil is just... ethically ok with the fact they'll have taken out like 100+ affordable apartments from the center of the city at this point? those two small apartment complxes on the southwestern corner of this lot are the type that was the lifeblood of the Montrose, sad. but this will be incredible, possibly the first Hotel in the city that's not embarrassing to recommend to out of towners?!
  3. crock
    they've successfully kicked out all of the interesting tenants. :/
  4. crock
    has anyone heard anything about the courthouse extension for the green/purple line? it seemed like the most straight-forward project in METRONEXT and... yet... not a peep, even when they had a whole ass year to rip up the courthouse parking lot if need be.
  5. crock
    i am pretty sure if you asked all 7mm "Houstonians" if tripling the width of the highway next to Minute Maid Park was a good idea the plurality would say no. but maybe thats just me remembering that 290 has been the butt of jokes for damn near two decades now.
  6. crock
    this is definitely not in Sawyer Yards, Rice Military, Old Sixth Ward, or Downtown. lol. sigh. "washington ave corridor" or maybe "6th ward" Has The Optimist backed out? i was realllly looking forward to that, but now that Tony Mandola's is opening a few blocks away I guess that might have changed?
  7. crock
    the worst part is the one possible stop that's actually in a pretty-dense neighborhood (Houston Ave/First Ward) is the least likely to be built.
  8. crock
    yes big same. hi neighbor!
  9. crock
    uh, except Dallas literally managed to kill their most recent downtown highway boondoggle and that failure is the exact reason TxDOT came here to push for the i45 reno. https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2017/08/its-official-the-trinity-toll-road-is-dead/
  10. crock
    i've parked in the basement to go to southside a couple of times, and they're the smallest parking spaces i've ever come across in houston. if a f250/350/etc. ever accidentally goes down there, I do not think they'll be able to park or leave. My forester barely fit in the spots, it looks like whoever designed the piers didn't bother to think through if 2 parking spots could even fit between them. it's rough.
  11. crock
    destroying an entire neighborhood's aethestic/vibe/thing in a week, jfc.
  12. crock
    wow thanks for backing that up with literally any facts or knowledge or opinion. Did I see you at any of the txdot or CoH meetings the past 3 years?
  13. crock
    there are literally no positives to this project. It will cause even more significant traffic around the i59-288 merger, it will destroy basically all of the pregaming/postgaming culture around Minutemaid and BBVA, it funnels all of west-central houston's traffic to 610, exacerbating every other bottleneck of traffic this city already has, it racistly closes off near northside from downtown. In the event of a disaster, everyone north of i10 will be cut-off from getting to the medical center for any emergencies. It doesn't even tie into any public transportation plans, TxDOT is still a big "we don't know" when asked how long this would affect light rail service.
  14. crock
    page 33 of this https://www.downtownhouston.org/media/uploads/attachments/2017-11-02/Plan_Downtown_Report_FINAL_Spreads_sm.pdf i know the last few i45 meetings also had a similar(identical?) rail alignment as part of the Houston requests to TxDOT
  15. crock
    @triton So you were right on the east side, and I was right on the west side... here's the plan as it is in the last Houston Downtown Plan.... so I guess it is true we should be worried/mad that the new i45 plan doesn't imply this'll happen. ugh.
  16. crock
    The only thing i'm positive on is that all of the tentative plans have Winter Street line being removed and the southern line, that already has a separate grade crossing at Houston Ave, becoming the single line, how that works west of white oak bayou i'm fuzzy on.
  17. crock
    my rudimentary understanding of this clusterf' of a plan is something like this?
  18. crock
    i'm not sure your reading is correct. It makes sense that if they relocate/combine the railroad tracks that there would be a need to make sure the crossings are grade separated at those two streets?
  19. crock
    anyone else frustrated that they haven't used the pandemic to start building out/figuring out the courthouse lightrail stop? it seems the most straight forward of the metro next buildouts/approved projects.
  20. crock
    it feels like they're kind of waiting for the i45 update to even bother with how this will actually get accessed.
  21. crock
    i cant imagine how cutthroat it's going to be to try to get companies to come here instead of the MKT or Montrose Collective.
  22. crock
    all of this development points to the powers that be already believing the proposed railroad-combining is going to happen and that winter street's ROW will be rebuilt as a main-street-corridor for the area. that's the only way it all makes sense.
  23. crock
    i love the rio grande chirping frogs in my pier and beam balloon walls
  24. crock
    i stole it from "wade from FW" on FB
  25. crock
    Oliver @ Crockett is now attached. so this is the southside of the Target.
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