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  1. Subdude
    Cool pictures! Thanks so much for posting. You can see right through what was then the Houston World Trade Center. The building in the bottom photo foreground was the Houston Port Authority. You can make out the great kind of mosaic image around the front entrance.
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    Economic slowdown or not, to me this seems like it ought to be a no-brainer. Based on the theory that the rich will always be with us, that has to be one of the most recession-proof development locations in the city.
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    For those who are apparently hard of reading, trolling posts in this forum will be removed. If you can't follow forum guidelines take it somewhere else.
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    Reported topic so a bunch of off-topic posts deleted. To reiterate the sub-forum notice: The topic here is Dallas development, so keep your posts on that. We're not running Dallas v Houston contests here.
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    Me too. It is rare that the finished product looks better than the renderings, but that certainly happened here. I really like it, from every angle.
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    Good catch. Please let that be for refurbishment of the trashy Main Food Store across from the Hillcorp building and next to 1010 Lamar.
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    That is correct. I had sort of assumed that they would rebuild the tunnel through the Gibraltar Savings parcel to reconnect to the garage and Magnolia Hotel.
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    Thanks. I'm glad to hear that.
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    Back when plans for redeveloping the River Oaks Shopping Center were first mooted (leading to the Barnes & Noble building) there was a diagram floating around that showed a residential development where the River Oaks Theater is. I wonder if that is still what they have in mind.
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    Harlow's was the place to go after an evening at Cooters!
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    That's the back of the 1010 Lamar building.
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    It's funny, but I think Volvo made their biggest mistake when they stopped being boxy and sensible in favor of trying to be stylish to compete with luxury brands. I'm sure they thought it made sense from a profitability viewpoint, but it was a big bet that hasn't exactly panned out. They pretty much gave away the segment for cars that were seen as plain and sensible to Subaru, which has been setting new sales records every year. Fifteen years ago a lot of those Subaru owners would have been driving Volvos.
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    The 1950 downtown photograph is incredible in the amount of detail it shows. You can imagine how futuristic the Melrose Building must have looked at the time.
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    True, but to me the design is kind of generic 2015 luxury car. Not bad, but at first glance not terribly different from the Hyundai Genesis or VW Passat.
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    One more time on off-topic posts. Any more and the topic closes.
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    Yep, Greyhound bus station. I believe it moved to Midtown in early 1970s.
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    Keep it on topic please, and take the off topic stuff to the off topic section.
  18. Subdude
    Guys, keep it on topic please.
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    That was the Medical Arts building. It was demolished I believe in the late 1970s/early 1980s. I read that it had structural problems and pieces were falling of, so it might have been considered a hazard.
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    Note duplicate topics merged.
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    If it does, the city needs to change the name of the street back, since St Joseph's "Parkway" wouldn't have much meaning.
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    Any activity?
  23. Subdude
    The next time that someone is griping about Houston's low density, show them this picture. It's slow work, but the city is changing.
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    I can't wait to see what happens with this property. This has to be one of the largest and best-located tracts available in the "traditional" Med Center footprint, so it seems it would be quickly snatched up. It would be great to see a real high-profile development go here.
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    It might also be interpreted as a big infinity sign, although to what end I couldn't say.
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