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  1. sidegate
    Good post
  2. sidegate
    Personal taste also enters the equation. Montrose has a feel to it that that strip of Shepherd with the hulking, roaring, whining highway towering over everything, will never have. The sinking of 59 was one of the best things to happen to Montrose, I used to cringe walking or biking under the freeway there. Montrose wins - by a street, if you will...;-P
  3. sidegate
    It's walkable, sure, but that part of Montrose has more tree cover and more pedestrian-oriented businesses
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    Since when was immediate, fall-over-and-you're-there freeway access the be all and end all of development? This is as far from most of the Medical Center to a freeway and that seems to have done reasonably well. Maybe office workers want a walkable environment just as much. Sooner or later you have to take a breath and start building, y'know, further away from the freeway.
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    One would think that wouldn't require a second's thought on the part of the developers but so many highrises round here have passed up the opportunity and continue to do so, and pedestrians are left looking at a stucco wall, the first level of parking, enormous AC vents or a thicket of tired, generic landscaping. This is only slightly related, but I really like the way the greenery has filled in on that sunken level of 59. Softens the whole view quite a bit.
  6. sidegate
    From the bend down to Montrose has the potential to really become one of the cool places in Houston, but there's so much tired stuff there at the minute. If there is any development here, I really hope it's of the sort that can spark something.
  7. sidegate
    Ah....was wondering when this would be up for grabs. With the pending redevelopment of the marquee opposite there is an opportunity here for the bend to develop into something....he said hopefully....
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    thinks there should be a new rank for those with 1 post - a beige stucco book megatstore

  9. sidegate

    but the What Will Your Baby Look Like ad is highly disconcerting

    1. T 2 THA C

      T 2 THA C

      lmao

  10. sidegate

    likes the new UI...less busy

  11. sidegate
    Not to generalize or anything...... (rolls eyes)
  12. sidegate
    Huzzah for restoration!! Hmmm....opens not too long before my birthday.... Edit: some weird Internet thing happened and my text appeared twice.
  13. sidegate
    You picked a nice day for it....
  14. sidegate

    detests bagging leaves

  15. sidegate
    They're ripping me off - I make Indian pizzas at home all the time!! :-)
  16. sidegate
    LOL, I was waiting for this post. There was an op-ed piece three weeks ago (which I guess you missed, or at least muttered sulkily as you read it) in which three BIOMEDICAL faculty (not four Arts faculty), and one arts for that matter, supported the merger. Oh and Rice's President too, forgot about him. Apparently four years at Rice has taught you just to see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear. Seems like a waste of money to me. You'll note how I didn't lurch on to HAIF when that editorial was published, as you have done with this one, because I know that everyone's mind is pretty much made up on this merger, yours and mine included, and in doing so I would have achieved little beyond burdening the Internet with more pointless bytes of information. As you have done.
  17. sidegate
    Like I said, it matters little what you, I, the alumni on either side or anyone else thinks. If being ill informed is working for a departmental head at one of the institutions involved who is on a joint academic committee overseeing the merger then I guess I am. My apologies. It's going ahead, so let's all make the best of it.
  18. sidegate
    Academics are conservative by nature. Add to that the fact that this is a conservative school in the South (which makes it pretty conservative), and I'm not in the least bit surprised Rice faculty aren't turning cartwheels over this initiative. It's progressive. It's bold. It breaks the mold. Everything that conservatives aren't/don't do. The reason for the silence is that if you enjoined the faculty on either side in this, you'd never get a thing done. This is for the administrators to handle, that's what they get paid for. It'll happen whether the faculty approve it or not (I doubt many will resign over it) so everyone needs to just grab an oar and make it work.
  19. sidegate
    This thread's a downer. Houston's architecture's depressing enough without this.
  20. sidegate

    this is sidegate - you asked me if my avatar was Jimmy Page - it is, Madison Square Garden, 1973.

  21. sidegate

    sure is. madison square garden 1973

  22. sidegate
    MD Anderson on the one hand is on a hiring freeze and maybe even laying people off, and on the other throwing up not one but two huge buildings. I fail to understand. I know it's complicated and there are lots of things about construction and financing, etc that I'm not privy to, but the average Joe in the street, of which I am one, will look at this situation and be very puzzled.
  23. sidegate
    I can't speak for anywhere else but dogs are a big deal in this city. We are one of a small minority of households on our block that doesn't have at least one. Their owners invest a lot of time in them, and like talking to other dog owners about dog stuff so I can understand catering to them. As for Market Square I've always found it very uninspiring and as other posters have pointed out the elevated lawns and sunken walkways detract from the continuity of the space, making it seem smaller and generally giving it a very dated 70s-ish feel. From a practical point of view I'd be reticent to let a toddler run around on the grass lest they go sailing off one of those ledges. And then there are the bums but given the climate they will always be a fact of life here. When I was young free and single I used to enjoy hanging out in the bars on the periphery so I'm sure it would be nice to sit outside one of those and look out on a thoughtfully updated urban space.
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    I dare say as an academic speaking in a public forum that he's basing his opinion on some pretty sound research. Heck I'd like him to be wrong as well, but I can't see any evidence at the minute that he's far off the mark.
  25. sidegate
    Is there any reason not to believe him? I can only speak for the Medical Center but it's in the doldrums right now. I have friends in the energy industry who I will shortly be saying goodbye to as they are moved elsewhere by their corporate offices. Anecdotal evidence yes, but evidence. Here's the link Citykid referred to by the way
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