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  1. roadrunner
    There's a bar going in here. Should be successful once the Pavilions opens up. good news
  2. roadrunner
    Word is that there will be wind turbines on the top of this building.and no street retail, which sucks
  3. roadrunner
    That building looks great. I really wish Davis would try to put a new luxury condo tower in DT, though.
  4. roadrunner
    Drove by today. There were a bunch of workers there putting materials at the site. Can't wait til this is done.
  5. roadrunner
    I love that this is going up in one of the densest areas of downtown. Main St. will be very active in the next few years.
  6. roadrunner
    It's a marble looking frame that they are putting up. It looks like it will be a good looking retail spot, which is funny being right next to that disgusting corner store. This is great, though. The retail holes are starting to fill in on Main St.
  7. roadrunner
    Too bad. This would be a great living option for Med Center employees and students.
  8. roadrunner
    I like the design. I hope there will be ground level retail facing the park. Now if we can just get a 40 story condo tower on the northern end of the park, that area will be ready to roll.
  9. roadrunner
    I've driven by this a few times over the past month or so. Is it just me or does it look like they have stopped construction?
  10. roadrunner
    On the northwest corner of Main and McKinney it looks like that retail space is being developed right next to the McKinney tunnel entrance. Anybody know what this is?
  11. roadrunner
    It will be there for the Final Four in 2011. As well as the Pavilions, Regent Square, Blvd Place, and hopefully the University Line (although I wouldn't put money on that one).
  12. roadrunner
    That's great news about the retail. That stop is always extremely busy in the morning from all of the Med Center employees. It will also do well with the Lanesborough and Greenbriar apartments right there within walking distance. There seems to be activity along the Red Line in every part of town.
  13. roadrunner
    Any other ideas about other tenants that could sign on? I feel like a Banana Republic, Express, and Sunglasses Hut would all do well here based on the business crowd alone.
  14. roadrunner
    I've been down around the construction of the park a lot lately, and I figured I'd just post some thoughts I've had about it. - It will be really exciting/interesting to see what ends up at the block adjacent to the park towards the north. I'm hoping a large residential project that mirrors the Hilton well. By the way, the Hilton will look great over the park. That building looks better and better everytime I see it. - I think One Park Place's ground floor market will be very pivotal in attracting more downtown residential projects. - One of the best and probably most overlooked things about the park is the fact that it's on the east side of town. In the late afternoons and evenings it won't be hit directly by the sun and will be a nice place to be before Astros/Rockets games. - I would love it if the city tried to promote the northeast side of downtown as a "Ballpark Village" with the empty blocks for developers. I don't really know how exactly the city can partner with developers, but it would be great for the 3 blocks from MMP to the park to develop with some 10-20 story mixed use developments based around the future light rail line (hopefully) running along Capitol. It could even extend out to the Ballpark Lofts and the new Dynamo Stadium. More of a dream, though.
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    Downtown TIRZ

    roadrunner replied to ToolMan's topic in Downtown

    The Main Street Square Red Line Station is pretty scary on a weeknight. Hopefully when the Pavilions open the city will do more to make this an attractive area.
  16. roadrunner
    Like everyone, looks better than I was expecting. Where is the retail? I assume it will be facing the park. It's too bad a parking garage is being built on one of the blocks caddy-cornering the park. You would think that could turn into a better result once that area gets going.
  17. roadrunner
    I'm wondering, too. Two large cranes are at the site now.
  18. roadrunner
    That's the site I'm talking about. I got my streets mixed up. I was riding the light rail when I saw it so I wasn't really aware of what streets I was passing. I think those apartments look great, though. Any development along the Red Line is good development IMO (even the CVS).
  19. roadrunner
    Does anybody know what's going on here? It's right on the red line and the block has had some activity recently.
  20. roadrunner
    I think the best part of this might just be the street level retail. If Hines is serious about getting the Shamrock site built up, too (say a condo tower), then we could have solid street life on Main from Franklin all the way to the Pavilions by 2012. By then, hopefully the East End Corridor Line will be under construction (the part that runs through northeast downtown) and some development will start occurring in that area towards MMP. Always hopeful...
  21. roadrunner
    I've never seen the InnerKaty line. Thanks for the link.
  22. roadrunner
    My proposal would be putting a line down Dallas (maybe even start at Hilton downtown) west to Dunlavy. North on Dunlavy with it rising above Allen Parkway. Across the bayou to Memorial. Along Memorial to Memorial Park and then just shoot it straight through Memorial Park to connect to the Uptown Line. I don't know how they plan to do the Uptown Line, but I'm sure the actual connection around the West Loop would be a construction nightmare. Unless they made it a sub-connection (which is what Uptown needs anyways), but that is extremely wishful thinking.
  23. roadrunner
    Is this still on schedule for groundbreaking in August? I don't know what the traffic is like on W Dallas, but the city/Metro should really look at putting a LRT or BRT line down Dallas. That is probably the most urban area in Houston with all of the townhomes and restaurants around. Then if they could figure out how to connect it to the Uptown line, I think the amount of riders would be substantial considering tourists would probably use it to go from downtown to the Galleria. Of course that is all very wishful thinking.
  24. roadrunner
    How many residents will downtown have once One Park Place is complete?
  25. roadrunner
    That one picture looks like it has a Z Tejas (www.ztejas.com) in it. Anyone have any confirmation on that? That place started in Austin and is awesome.
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