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22 minutes ago, phillip_white said:

I would love to hear a realtor try to explain the market for a property in the center of an apocalyptic hellscape. The current highest and best use for this building is as a budget-friendly filming location for a zombie movie.

Asking price does not set the market, the sales price does (kind of).

Potential potential potential potential 😏😏😏

8 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Aside from the weather, SF is so much better than LA. LA only gets the attention it does because of Hollywood, otherwise the city is just ehh. I read it's the largest urban area outside of NY, but those stats are based on 2k people per square mile being considered "urban."

Houston is what LAs population was in the 60s I wonder what Houston will look like in 60 years.

I was wondering when they were gonna start this!

5 hours ago, Ross said:

There are several places like Down House I miss. It seems like those places, at some point, get boring to the founder, and they close and move on to another project. It's interesting that they seem to run the places for their own reasons, and regardless of success or the customers, they just move on.

Interesting man I wish I had that chicken and waffles recipe they had best!

I miss Down house.

1 hour ago, hindesky said:

Speaking of Central Cadillac, I rode by there and talked with a guy. Asked him when they are moving out and what he thought would become of the building and land they own. He said they should move next spring and he thinks the building would likely become a nightclub. Unless and until approaches whoever owns it and decides on something grander.

I would think someone major would have their eyes on that land. I still don't know where the hell the new Cadillac dealership is at I get my car serviced at Nissan Central and I didn't see anything over there last week.

If everything is built according to this banner and if the Central Cadillac plots are redeveloped this area is gonna be beast!

11 hours ago, hindesky said:

This one is. Someone on Nextdoor asked why they closed. Seems like another vagrant has been added to the tenant list when I went by yesterday.

Dammit! 🤦🏽‍♂️

3 minutes ago, Texasota said:

Or, ideally, a ramen place that's not just a mediocre chain. 

They have the best broth 😒

4 minutes ago, X.R. said:

Most/all of their properties are retail. I'm in disbelief that we'd actually get retail right there. Its badly needed, just in disbelief. Also, I feel like the neighborhood would fight it. BUT, if we get a little Marq'E mixed with some 19th and Yale from their portfolio in this spot...myyyyyy goodness. It would change the complexion of museum district.  

Just put a Jinya Ramen in there the Midtown location is a pain 😊

I was looking through their site last night and they had a rendering in the Galleria area of a tower that looked like the Brava tower downtown. 

54 minutes ago, mattyt36 said:

I'm sure there will be modifications--I believe that's what's being negotiated right now in connection with the original lawsuit, which I don't believe has been dismissed or fully settled (correct me if I'm wrong).  The first agreement was on proceeding with more preliminary work for the downtown segments.

Seems like of the 4 involved entities--the City, the County, the State, and the federal government--the City presented a compromise plan before the DoT halted spending with slight modifications that is probably the path forward.

8 minutes ago, Houston19514 said:

The FHWA Is part of the the Department of Transportation , the Secretary of which was appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the president of the United States.  He is ultimately responsible.

The current plans have never been completely final, to be built without shot further change. But my bet all along has been that this go forward with very minor changes and TXDoT pressing to do things they were already planning/obligated to do.

Do you think they go as drastic as just building within the current right away and not taking any right of way.

So is Baccos going away?

If anyone had to guess do you think the rebuild will be built as is with the current plans?

Did they slightly change the design?

4 hours ago, mkultra25 said:

I wish they would've come up with a more original name to begin with. We should've known what was coming when the best they could do was recycle a fifty-year-old name from a God-awful Dallas team that went 1-11 before being put out of its misery.

It's a dumbass name excuse my language. They should have went with Apollo's.

3 hours ago, mattyt36 said:

The reverse of the Dallas Mavericks, which were named after (after meaning sequentially) the original Houston Mavericks ABA team, which played 1967-69.

Houston Mavericks - Wikipedia

I'm glad we dodged the bullet in that 🤢

3 hours ago, strickn said:

Well, after twenty lost seasons, we should at least hang up the Texans moniker, and with it our unsuccessful attempt to grab some loyalty from statewide NFL fans…

I wish they would rebrand.

6 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

April 29, 2022

The management district that maintained the lights was shut down a few years ago, so there is no one currently maintaining the lights.  In other words when one goes out, there is no one to replace or repair it.

Lance Gandy
IALD, LC, IES, Assoc. AIA

G2LD gandy² lighting design
6101 n. main street
houston, texas 77009
office 713.489.5111
cell 281.796.1253
www.G2LD.com

 What was it to maintain initially they were new and they didn't work!!!!

19 minutes ago, Houston19514 said:

In reality, I don't think there is a company "running the lights."  I recently contacted the company that installed the lights.  They told me that the Montrose Management District was responsible for running and maintaining the lights (and paid for their installation).  Sadly, the Montrose Management District no longer exists.  So no one is "running the lights."  The City needs to get this figured out and, as suggested above, either turn them off or get them fixed. As is, they are embarrassing. 

I'll say it again those lights have never fully worked even after they were installed. It makes you wonder if the company who installed the lights did shotty work.

18 minutes ago, iah77 said:

I think it is. What is unusual is that prime tenants have reverted back to the Galleria (i.e tom ford, akris, probably dior). ROD's sister project in Atlanta [Buckhead Village] which opened with an almost identical tenant mix has not seen the same wave of departures. I think the stores in ROD attract a lot of people to the restaurants due to making it seem very upscale. Would Toulouse be so busy if not next to a very aesthetically pleasing dior store?  Probably not? These two other similar complexes saw a boost after covid, not what's happening here. 

In Dallas, Highland Park Village's departures have led to even more niche and upscale retailers opening in the void while ROD's are left vacant a long time and heading in a direction that will scare away the original tenants.  

I don't really care, I'm just scratching my head on the re-alignment since I think Houston should be able to support 3-4 high end centers like Dallas has. 

 

 

Just now, Houston19514 said:

Take a look at the Buckhead Village map.  They have at least as many empty spaces as ROD.

The luxury stores at Buckhead Village were leaving for Phipps and Lenox before River Oaks District even started losing tenants to the Galleria. 

Yeah I thought it was the city too

6 minutes ago, Amlaham said:

Wrong, not surprised, the CITY imposed these restrictions not the master planned communities. You do realize there are dozens of master planned communities in Sugar Land, you think they all uniformly agreed on the same restrictions and control the design of the major thoroughfare? 

https://www.sugarlandtx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/10260/FINAL_SIGN-REG?bidId=

 

 

 

Yeah I thought it was the city too.

I wish the city would have went a extra step and banned signage on poles similar to Sugar Land.

I think it'll get better as time goes by.

14 minutes ago, Amlaham said:

My apologies, I think you're right! https://scenichouston.org/timeline/

I was thinking this only impacts the airport corridor ordinance that recently passed

I was confused about the airport corridor ordinance when it came out what makes it different than ordinance on any other freeway? 

2 minutes ago, Amlaham said:

Big win, I wish this ordinance applied to the entire city. It just adds clutter to our streetscape!

I thought it did.