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Big E

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  1. Do the Coyotes want to move? It seems more likely that Houston get an expansion team than another team move here.
  2. I don't see how it can be objectively false when the thing is still sitting there...abandoned. Reality shows me to be objectively right. Unlikely is not impossible. And I don't think the state government will split hairs over it if the county and city actually just pushed for it. This came from the Babylon Bee?
  3. I'm sure that status can be removed just as easily as it can be given. I said what I meant.
  4. Whether it can be used isn't really the issue. The issue is one of practicality and hard, cold reality. The current tenants of the other venues don't want anything there that will disrupt their current operation, precluding anything like year round businesses from opening. Nobody in the county wants to spend money on an aging dome. There's no sport that needs or wants the dome for any kind of usage. NOBODY cares that much. Better it be torn down than continue to be an eyesore. At least, then the land can be put to some use.
  5. NYC's population is 0.3% Japanese. Los Angeles population is 0.9% Japanese. Houston's pop. is 0.1% Japanese. We are literally talking about a difference of a few tenths of percent, two-tenths in the case of comparing Houston to NYC.
  6. These are literally mold infested derelicts. Nobody wants to live in them. Nobody should live in them. Nobody would even be allowed to live in them, even if they wanted to. There is literally no reason not to tear them down. The Lofts were relatively new apartments and completely livable, though even those protests were stupid. This has no real justification.
  7. I really don't know why they haven't just torn them down yet. They should go on and get it over with.
  8. Now that would be something. A marquee store out of Japan, great for a city with a large Japanese population. I was actually wondering why Uniqlo hadn't opened a store in the Galleria already, but Covid makes sense.
  9. If the dome can't be used, then it does need to go. Its just a drain on resources continuing to maintain it just so that it doesn't fall in on itself. As of now, there is nothing that can practically be put there as a result of the tenants using the other existing structures. Ergo, get rid of it, save the money on maintenance, pave it over as a parking lot, and, if you want, maybe redevelop some of the parking on the edge of the sports district to compensate. Anything that could be built in that stadium could just as easily be built somewhere else.
  10. All the same problems with this running into issues with the existing tenants of the other buildings (The Houston Rodeo, the Texans, etc.) still apply, unfortunately. I think we just need to face that there is nothing else that can be done with this space, and its destiny is to become another parking lot.
  11. I'm hoping that one of the other towers in the development gets started relatively quickly.
  12. Well this is somewhat disappointing (the construction timeline, not the design itself). This means phase one is...two and a half buildings? As is Phase 2, if we count the hotel, conference center and residential tower as one building. At least I like the garage's design now that I've seen the finished product. And what's with Parcel A? Does this mean they don't even have plan on when they will start building that? Also, they show the UTHealth and MD Anderson buildings in the picture, but give no timeline on their completion.
  13. The other towers were cancelled. And there's no telling when the second phase will start at this rate.
  14. At this point? Who knows. You think winning the World Series would have been the perfect setup for an announcement, but at this point, your guess is as good as anyone elses.
  15. I'd rather say "replacement" than destruction, since that's really what's going on. If you want to, you can say they are "moving 45", but destruction implies they are taking 45 down and won't replace it with anything. No part of 45/345 in Texas will be removed because of its importance to cross-state and interstate traffic.
  16. That's not going to happen. The most they will do is bury 345. That interstate is too important for North-South travel across the city, and the other freeways can barely handle the cars they handle now.
  17. Not officially. But there's been no movement on it yet after they released the pictures and did some preliminary work. Which is more than I can say for the owner of the Astros is doing with his supposed redevelopment.
  18. According to this, the Four Seasons Hotel Houston; Hotel Granduca Houston; The Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa; and The St. Regis Houston were rated as Four-star Hotels.
  19. I don't think Houston's freeways are particularly egregious. And the feeder roads help with traffic immensely (just ask Los Angeles, which lacks them, to its detriment). Your not going to get the full measure of any city's beauty if you just stick to the highways.
  20. Sounds like its a correlation of a variety of sources. Though I'm sure the exact way they calculate it is a "trade secret". My guess, they look at multiple places, including Forbes, AAA, and others and average it out to some kind of mean, using an algorithm to do the work. It sounds like something Google will do, though the star ratings do reflect the prices generally.
  21. The star rating of the hotel is listed separately from the user rating sir.
  22. Huh. Forbes doesn't consider the St. Regis or Four Seasons to be 5-star? Interesting.
  23. Google lists hotels by their star ratings. You can go to Maps and simply search for Five-star rated hotels, or search Google itself. Just search "Five star luxury hotels in Houston"
  24. Houston has only five 5-star hotels, and only one of them is downtown: the Four Seasons. The only other five star hotel remotely close to the area is La Colombe d'Or. The remaining three are in the Galleria Area.
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