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  1. crock
    the perfect buyer/builder for that lot would be if Automattic/Wordpress/Tumblr built their headquarters there. Their founder/head is in Houston... their workforce is all remote though.... sigh. That's basically the only tech company we have that is large enough that could in theory build a small campus like that.
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    maybe they're calling it Festival Hill because we can all go there to watch the world be inundated?
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    You must have never been on the MKT. this a rather elevate d ridge, when you're on the MKT trail this area is a hill above/next to you. It would only flood in extreme events.
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    There is a huge argument to be made that the project fails to keep local connectivity between the heights and near northside. The current plan takes away the North Street bridge, taking away germantown's connection to near northside. IIRC there is also a big question mark on if Link st and Cottage st are kept connected. also the deck park is a fantasy. It would take 100 milion of private money to make any of that work.
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    there goes one of the best views of houston (unless you're in a very specific-spot of potin's patio) and no street level retail... sigh.
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    it's adding. Highway construction is not some cutesy libertarian math equation. They don't get to drop the pierce elevated into the hole and reuse it.
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    The current plan has 22 lanes being built underground between GRB and Eado. This shows 8 lanes existing and 5 more if you count the feeder. So 8 to 22 is 14? If you want to be generous, then i guess this is showing 13 lanes being subsumed by 22, so "only" 9?
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    saying Katy is diverse is fine and all, but you're the one displaying your complete ignorance if you think white flight is "BS" or somehow not racist.
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    you say this as if Baltimore is supposed to care about Columbia's transit, or that Portland is supposed to care about Salem. That is the problem with Houston, suburban people think they should have a say in the city itself, thats not true of other places.
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    have you been to Baltimore? their rail/lightrail set up is very similar to Houstons. Both Baltimore and Houston were built out with streetcar suburbs. In what way is Houston "nothing like" Baltimore? Also, who cares about Katy? If people want to keep making unsustainable and slightly racist "But our school district" decisions, why should the urban core keep having to make the sacrifices? It's cute you're talking about "getting out of our subdivision would be difficult" out as if the reason the Afton Oaks people didn't kill the richmond line was pure and blatant racism.
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    half expecting this to be the new West Elm location
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    they're stupidly simplistic because they've literally been proven true time and time again across the globe.
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    trying to imagine the nerve/gaul/ignorance required to call something Founders District thats nowhere near the founding of anything.
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    :((((((
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    newest chronicle article about buffalo bayou brewery had the owners saying opening is "sometime in October"
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    The hicks street bridge might be the least-used bridge in the entire county. it doesn't have sidewalks, but it also doesn't have traffic. Taking hicks is a more pleasant experience as a walker and biker than crossing studemont will ever be. The curve around Arnie's warehouse, and the great skyline views you get make it a lovely place to walk/bike. The townhouses and old brick warehouse are more attractive than the backside of a grocery store and a parking lot. All i'm saying is we have a underutilized bridge over a major thoroughfare, and i really hope it becomes more utilized for pedestrians and the creation of a neighborhood.
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    There is literally Hicks Street bridge over Studemont, that should be where pedestrians go, not trying to cross at Summer st.
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    https://www.lovettcommercial.com/properties/houston/polk---dowling
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    I've lived in first ward since the start of the year and i've seen/heard nothing about that. The only street stuff thats currently proposed is reconnecting summer street so you can actually get from target to kroger, and there is a request to the transpo board to change crockett from a major thoroughfare to a minor.
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    THE FIRST LIGHTRAIL STOP WEST OF DOWNTOWN!!! We'VE FINALLY DONE IT!!!!!!! URBAN DENSITY, HERE WE COME!
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    i was at the meeting last night too and I saw no maps with potential changes. It was just maps of what exists and maps of the most current txdot plans...... like the downtown partnership plans weren't in the building in any way shape or form. it was maybe 120 people? It was the consulting firm, CoH, Metro, UH's design ppl, and some tdot ppl quietly listening.... they gave us a run down of where we are in the timeline and how f'd we are, and then had large tables (in english and spanish) for 4 issues (Connections, Traffic, Environment/Flooding, Property). People were asked to sit in groups for 20 minutes and the consulting firm/UH/CoH people would lead discussions while a second person wrote all the notes down. Some discussions were better than others, but there were just so many competing voices and issues for 20 minutes to be enough time... a lot of 2ndward/eastside people were there and it was specifically not about their section, which got awkward real quick when they tried to ask about their part. There was absolutely no "heres our ideas!"-type of thing from the city or consulting firm.
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    i don't think this was about traffic as much as safety (correct me if i'm wrong?) bc people would have gnarly accidents trying to switch at the last minute at night. because, yea..... if this was about less congestion, then all the engineers at TXDOT need to be fired and never allowed to work on road design ever again. It is worse, and it is worse literally at all times of day. before this, if you took i45north before rush hour, there was very rarely congestion, now there is congestion 100% of the time, 2pm-traffic, 9pm-traffic. it is miserable.... and it will only be worse when UH starts.
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    who in their right mind would be ok with putting their car into a mechanical valet box? it's like... let's add the wait time and shitty classist nature of valets to the unreliability of a large public-facing machine? there is literally no benefit to the consumer of this sort of system, it's all in increasing revenue, who cares if the moment this thing breaks there will be dozens of people not able to get their car at the end of the night.
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    the high first ward historic district saved a good number of them, and I literally live in a 1880s-built house in the lower first ward that i'd like to think is in better than very-rough-shape 😅
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    everything that wasn't colored east of sawyer would be a house built 100+ years ago too. which i think is what makes 6th ward + 1st ward so special.
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