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    No, nobody has the money to sit around with zero income while a building is built. They're going to have to find some other place to move to (where they'll stay for the foreseeable future), and someone else will move into the new building. I know for a fact there's a neat stripcenter just south of Shepard and Richmond that has tons of space, might feel right at home for them. I do hope they don't leave the neighorhood.
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    Are they ever going to cover the parking podium with something? I can't believe they've left it as bare concrete, it's incredibly ugily . . .
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    I walked by there a few months ago, and the streets had already been repaved with only two lanes instead of the old four. I had to do a double-take.
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    It's not so loud, I honestly hear the bell and the train over the track switch in front of the greyhound more. Kinda pleasant to hear honestly, makes me feel like I live in a city
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    A bike/ped only bridge in downtown?????? In HOUSTON? Is that for real???? Incredible.
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    I think the contrast is pretty neat, from a historical perspective. I'm going to enjoy pointing out to people why there's such a stark break between the old building and the new renovations, and the 180 planning philosophy has made since the Houston Center was built.
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    Yeah, you're right . . . . they started using it to move stuff onto the pool deck. 😭 Well, guess this thread'll go back to hibernation for another month or so. What a tease! edit: crane packed up and left, nothing's changed with the new site except an old dumpster full of demo garbage is gone that I'm pretty sure was removed a few weeks ago.
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    I just got back to my place after a week away, and noticed there's a crane set up in front of Drewery Place! Could they finally be starting something on the site next door??????
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    Most of the adjacent property is actually owned by Rice, the guys developing this, so I don't think we've seen any values fluctuate just yet. Especially with how unstable the housing/renting market is right now, I think it'll be a little while before we can accurately say what the effects on property value will be, but it's a safe bet that it'll increase someone's rent . . .
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    I wonder exactly how that works. The city has been successful in keeping encampments out of some places, but clearly have given up in others. What's the deciding factor?
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    I'll just put this in as a bonus, but not for the cap, for the project overall: if we get two way all day HOV lanes (which is planned for all highways inside the loop between this and MetroNext), Metro is going to expand their P&R service to two way frequent and P&R-to-TC/P&R-to-P&R service, it'll be a wierd citywide express bus service instead of a commuter shuttle that I think has a lot of potential.
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    Good lord man, he deserves to be made fun of, not murdered! He (might) have a wife and kids, have mercy! Someone call a burn center . . . 🤣
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    They could do some kind of breezeway. It would take a ton of remodeling, but i'd advocate for it.
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    Additionally, although I can't confirm it because I don't know where I saw the source, but I'm pretty sure 100% of the people in clayton homes are going to get replacement public housing north of the bayou. I think they've already started relocating.
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    Yeah, segment three is pretty much locked in (the segment from the 59 spur up to the 45/10 interchange on north side of downtown) and it's the first that's going to start construction. The rest of the project, however, is still up in the air.
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    yeah it got dropped 'cause of covid. IIRC they're gonna have to seek it again, we'll be lucky if construction starts by 2030.
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    Incredible. Glad the building managed to be saved at all. Don't suppose there are any pictures floating around of the place? I wouldn't want you to go and invade your friend's privacy for the sake of curious internet strangers 😁
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    Looks like a great location! The "year built" lists 2021, will they be able to build it by then? Don't think I saw anything at all last time I was there.
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    Yeah, I was thinking, if they fit the gauge of the rail bridge they would've moved them last time, right? They need to work something out with a flatbed.
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    They really need to get a new system for dealing with hurricanes for the trolleys. they can't keep restoring them every time they get a bad one, they need to contract with someone to move them off island if one is forecasted to hit them.
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    I can't tell if there's anything in the pictures out of the ordinary from how it usually looks, maybe Brooklyn just knows something we don't. Also, they could be cleaning it up to try and sell it to the investors better, hasn't it been gutted and re gutted a few times? I'd love to see something done with the place but who knows at this point.
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    The other parts of this project, widening 45 north, is a complete mistake and is absolutely going to hurt and disconnect communities. I guarantee you the "poorer sections of town" are much more concerned with that than a downtown highway cap (and are much more likely to use public transit, which is unaffected if not improved by this project). If I could have my way, I'd only do segment 3 and totally shelve the other segments. Leeland is also still in the render posted above, only Polk was severed. Furthermore, this is not about connecting collectors and thoroughfares, or about connecting streets themselves. It's about improving the pedestrian experience by improving sidewalks, parks and buildings in a natural unbroken streetscape that make a city feel like a city rather than skyscrapers separated by deserts of parking lots. Whereas the highway was a barrier to this, the highway cap theoretically unites EaDo and Downtown.
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    Over the past few decades, urban planners and researchers have come to realize that urban highways damage the cityscape it travels through in multiple ways, most obviously by physically separating parts of the city with wide, unattractive, unsafe overpasses like we have right now. Cities are now spending considerable time and effort to reunite neighborhoods originally segregated by the highways back in the 60s. You can see the effects of this in places like Dallas, or in more extreme cases like in Boston. The effect of literally, physically reconnecting city streets in place of what was once a highway is hard to understate. The CoH has been trying to encourage unbroken "real city" development to unite different areas of interest around the inner loop of Houston. Downtown, Midtown, the Med Center, and EaDo. Currently, they are separated by the Pierce Elevated, 69, and 288. So, by burying these and building uninterrupted cityscape on top, they can try and undo the damage done by our urban highways. To my understanding you have to build the highways with the pillars and structures necessary to put buildings on the caps from the beginning, you can't do that after the fact. So, they're doing all this planning before they break ground. Finally, TXDOT is doing all the heavy lifting. They're making the highway, the caps, and the pillars and engineering to make it all work. All the city has to do is build and maintain the parkspace, and encourage private development on the caps.
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    I was just thinking that. What are the chances it actually gets developed this time? I'd almost rather they just demolish the thing and be done with it, but this looks like a good plan. We do live in the strangest timeline after all . . .
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    Are there rules for how a TIRZ must be set up, and if so, who sets those rules? City, county, state? Is the board appointed, or are they elected? And if so, by whom? Is there a difference between the Montrose TIRZ and the Montrose Management District? Are they the ones who commissioned a study on the walkability of Montrose + an action plan to fix the parts in disrepair?
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