jerrios

The construction from all their projects look like they generally have the same facade. I wouldn't consider midtown a lower end market than the energy corridor.

Personally, I don't really consider the retail at Post to be thriving other than the restaurants and even that is debatable. The space at One Park Place took a while to fill in and does anyone even know how well that store is doing? If we're just talking about restaurants to fill in the ground level, it may be more difficult in competing some of the other restaurants that is already in midtown. Trust me, I am all for retail at the bottom, but I can definitely see where the developer is coming from. I'm more happy that we can fill it fill it in with an apartment and as the population gets more dense in Midtown, businesses will follow.

I actually feel really bad for the people who bought those homes; they were actually originally built by Waterhill Homes, which had terrible build quilty to begin with. They actually got sued by several homeowners in Hyde Park at one time due to poor construction that did not have proper run off of water and caused mold. I believe they ended up filing bankruptcy which was the same time these homes (above) were going up so they stopped construction of those homes.

A very good replacement for Mai's is Red Pier next to Les Givrals, they have family style meals similar to Mai's. I believe they are an extension of Les Givrals, being owned by the same people, so you won't find very many overlapping items, for instance you won't find pho there.

I actually drove into the parking lot with the intent of eating there; parked my car in a spot that didnt have a yellow cone, valet guy came out and told me I had to valet. I drove off. There is no reason why I have valet my car when every parking spot was empty, I wasn't going to park across the street.