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Nate99

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  1. They built a new one in downtown Amarillo across from their minor league ball park, it's actually way nicer than what you would expect from what they built the brand up to be from the beginning. The worst ES has to be Charleston, WV. Like seemingly everything in that town, it hasn't been touched since construction was completed. This one looks dumb, and way dumber than the rendering we got at the outset, but all's well as it's exterior is going away for all practical purposes.
  2. I guess it's too late to swap the entirety of the bayou frontage downtown for East River. That does seem better.
  3. I wasn't trying to imply it was realistic or likely, just that it could make for a really cool area if the jails weren't taking up so much space and repelling neighbors. It could plausibly pay for itself via land value and higher tax value after the fact, but that's just speculation. All that said, the county likely doesn't care all that much and they would be controlling the deal. Didn't they just finish a brand new facility too? But as for where to relocate, just pick your personal least favorite corner of the county. I'd pick something industrial off Almeda or maybe next to one of our landfills.
  4. Tons of potential along the bayou there, and I doubt there are shortages of interesting visions. Seems to me if you moved the jails, you would get a massive pop in value for everything on the north side of downtown and accelerate interest north of the bayou up toward St Arnolds/Warehouse District. Houston's growth doesn't seem to be slowing much, and we're going to need some density to make that work. Moving the jails and making that area residential wouldn't be too painful for anyone and would be an easier place to live in densely given the location.
  5. I may be mixing concepts, but the Days Inn/Heaven on Earth was mentioned as a candidate for some manner of affordable housing, but again, maybe only here. The 800 Bell residential speculation is probably just plausible wishful thinking for it's next use given the amount of nicer and better located vacant office space elsewhere downtown. That property represents a huge chunk of square footage and I wonder how much work it requires to keep the infrastructure from decaying.
  6. T Get this, 800 Bell and everybody's favorite former transcendental meditation center/junkie-squatter-sky-hovel renovated and filled with residents and that's a pretty big neighborhood on top of the other stuff that's already (or about to be) occupied.
  7. I missed the earlier time series of the roof replacement, but had walked by a couple of times when the front door was opened revealing the whole thing being completely gutted. I'm unlikely to find myself in a night club, but given the condition of the roof and interior, seems like any future use would have been a long shot.
  8. Apologies if there’s a thread that I missed, but I don’t recall seeing anything. I noticed on the previously vacant half of the block across Chenevert from Irma’s, in front of the 7-8-ish story lofts there are two stories of wood framing are already built up with some structural steel built into one corner I am guessing apartments, but with mostly all wood structure, it would be limited to 4 ish stories, right? Anyone know what these are about or where the thread is?
  9. Over in the Minute Maid Mixed Use thread, there was a report of Crane talking big on developing a "district" around the park like Wrigleyville. The old lots that used to have the BUS bar, the private jail off Crawford and now this are all his, I think. Sound like a ton of property to work with, hope he gets after it soon.
  10. I'd submit that it may be the world's most dispersed mall food court with full recognition of the current state of malls considered. Shame we never had a corn dog place.
  11. A "BREWERY" sign with an up arrow under the "SOBERING CENTER" sign would be cosmically appropriate.
  12. Haven't heard anyone mention it in a while. I'm still very much in favor of the idea, but also very skeptical that something of that scale could get built there.
  13. That block is looking rough. The old Payless Shoes location, Bombay Pizza, the Dollar store that burned and now the CVS are empty. The AT&T/Verizon store might be gone too.
  14. That pool deck is going to be in its own little nook, better plan carefully to catch sun.
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