TOMIKA!
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2 hours ago, Luminare said:
I posted this on the Regent Square thread i think? Maybe sometime last summer, but I'll post it again here.
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Would any of the talented architects (or anyone) on this board be able to superimpose this site plan with the GID plan and project to the west of this? Would love to see how these little streets and green spaces line up! Thank you!!
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I just talked to one of the representatives for the Hardy Yard TIRZ and it sounds like not only will this project likely not have any retail, Cypress has scrapped any park or green space for the project. They said the TIRZ feels Cypress sold them on mixed use and parks and is now just proceeding without any of that. Very disappointing if true.
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1 hour ago, Kinglyam said:
Should we be concerned if their portfolio is all mid-rise apartments? Hardy Yards has been developing on the promise of mixed use. If the infill with all apartments, there will be no easy space for retail, and the development boom will likely bust hard.
It will be very disappointing if all these tracts end up being apartments only. May feel like one of those Robert Moses super blocks along the East River...-
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38 minutes ago, Kinglyam said:
That's one of the interior lots on Burnett, isn't it? Were they digging with the excavator? Maybe they're prepping the site to use as a laydown yard for the apartment construction.
Yes, this is the lot on Burnett between Chapman and Hardy. They dug several holes and then covered them up.-
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Some intense soil sampling? This is a different site than the apt building construction.
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On 1/2/2020 at 2:36 AM, j_cuevas713 said:
Did anyone notice that some moron wrote on the Hardy Yards sign? Any way to get this fixed?
Ugh, thanks for the notice. If they don’t fix it right away, I’d alert Rebecca Reyna with the Greater Northside Management District. They maintain those improvements.
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On 12/15/2019 at 12:22 PM, Triton said:
Yup. I've attended all of the TXDOT meetings and the city has been quite vocal about where they stand. As 19514 said, the city has been the main driving force behind a lot of the improved changes to the plan over what was originally shown by TXDOT. In fact, after more community feedback and with the city's guidance, we're about to get new schematics in the coming days.
I’ve attended those meetings as well. This mayor has and continues to back TXDoT’s plan as it is, which is disgraceful, in my opinion, especially to black and Latino communities north of downtown. I’m thrilled we have a new crop of city council members like Letitia Plummer, though, that may actually push TXDoT to make changes that don’t just benefit those wealthier communities in and around downtown. The new schematics published by TXDoT a few weeks ago are a prime example that they are not listening to communities that they will hurt the worst. Almost no changes to the plans that will wipe out hundreds of businesses, displace more than a thousand people, and locate freeways adjacent to close to a dozen schools. All in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods, go figure.
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17 hours ago, Houston19514 said:
I don't care what letterhead was used. The fact is, the City of Houston has indeed "pushed back" on the design in very similar ways. Note that Dallas City Council has not attempted to stop the I-30 project, only to modify the design.
Tell me who in the “City of Houston” has “pushed back”.
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3 hours ago, Houston19514 said:
I’m not sure that’s significantly different from the process the Houston project has gone through. TxDOT has made many changes hi tiff in response to city and community push back.It is, actually. City council in Houston has done nothing to push back against TxDOT. No leadership on that front. Karla Cisneros and Amanda Edwards have been the only ones that even ask questions of TxDOT in the public setting. The groundswell opposition in Houston has been mainly citizen groups like Stop TxDOT I-45 and the Make I-45 Better Coalition. Really hoping Isabel Longoria, Letitia Plummer, and some of the other candidates who have spoken out against TxDOT during the campaign trail get elected and speak up against TxDOT on behalf of their constituents.
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2 hours ago, Houston19514 said:
Where and in what way have either Dallas or Austin been "fighting and seemingly beating TxDoT in similar battles" in any way different from what Houston is doing?
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2 hours ago, KinkaidAlum said:
Freeways are being torn down, removed, and buried in many cities that we aspire to be more like. Cities we compete with for jobs, corporate home and regional offices, and more. It's a quality of life and HEALTH issue. Expanding freeways is a last century solution. Texas needs to learn that expanding freeways does nothing for the people who live adjacent to them in the city. But I suspect the people that run the state don't really care about people who choose to live IN cities. Their constituents are the companies that get the contracts followed by the folks in the burbs.
Couldn’t agree more! Although, Dallas and Austin are fighting and seemingly beating TxDoT in similar battles. Houston has a weird way of being soooo backwards on this stuff. It’s like we are still living in 1972 sometimes..
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44 minutes ago, cspwal said:
What's wrong with this section in particular? It looks to me to be going through parking lots and "Acre in a Box - Houston's first urban based hydroponic farm". I understand it's pertty bad elsewhere - especially demolishing Clayton homes - but what is wrong with this segment?
Let me ask you. If you lived 2 blocks from a freeway and learned the freeway were going to be brought one block closer to your house, would you care?
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3 hours ago, Kinglyam said:
Dang, you're going to make me do some actual research, aren't you? Here's a screencap from the project's interactive map showing that area. You can see it's nowhere near extending that whole width, nor does it go as close to the Residences as you're showing. The map's measuring tool says the existing freeway is about 250 ft wide, and the new one is about 450 at the widest. So not quite double, which makes sense for cramming two interstates together.
This realignment is terrible for the area and I hope this portion gets changed (but, I’m not holding out too much hope). I live just north of here and feel this is not only not justified and a giant waste of taxpayer money, it’s also a social justice issue. Give more land to freeways, suburban commuters, and the rich people downtown by taking away land closer to us brown and black folks. This is a shameful project, especially in 2019 and especially in a city that supposedly prides itself on equality and diversity.
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That’s one ugly park! Didn’t realize a park this bad could be designed in 2019. And, all I notice in the video are the cars. Feels like a freeway park with a couple of circles in the middle. Just bad. Gensler is the worst.
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Lots of stuff, but mostly WeWork is betting big and could fail big. A couple of articles on the CEO and their recent IPO valuation:
https://medium.com/@keshavbagri10/wework-a-47bn-house-of-cards-ready-to-fall-a1635809e133
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/5-reasons-weworks-gigantic-ipo-valuation-plunged-69/amp/
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On 9/6/2019 at 2:24 PM, j_cuevas713 said:
With WeWork losing so much money, how much longer can we expect their presence downtown? Or any market for that matter
Yeah, the chips are going to start falling for WeWork soon. This IPO mess is just the beginning...
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11 hours ago, Luminare said:
No it isn't. This is clearly a collaboration. Insider Trading would be if multiple entities were planning on building on this KBR site (if it were split up into multiple parts and Midway only had one part), and Midway locked up an exclusive deal that would lock up the waterfront preventing others from doing so. This is not what is going on here. Midway is highly attuned to their surroundings with this project or they wouldn't have reached out to other entities and not just the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. You are literally trying to make up a conspiracy in your own mind.
I agree with this 100%. Synergies is a bit cliche and has turned into a marketing buzzword at this point, but thats partly because its a truism. These big developments do work with and against one another, but the better synergies between them means a win-win for all parties involved. They would be idiots to not explore opportunities by touching base with these various entities. Its just smart business. Aside from it being a smart business tactic if we can get a better bayou environment and public realm then thats just the cherry on top.
Well, except for the fact that Midway’s CEO was chair of real estate at Buffalo Bayou Partnership until about 2 years ago...
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Met with a contractor today who is bidding on “major” infrastructure work on the site.
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On 8/8/2018 at 0:14 PM, wilcal said:
A little birdy has told me that they had seen the renderings of this project and that they were "next level".
I mentioned about the low planned renovation cost mentioned here and they said that he didn't think it was close to possible with the renderings they saw.
Don't want to stoke the fires with non-info, but I'm excited about the possibilities.
I saw some new renderings the other day. OMA designs. Seriously cool s#!+!
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Campo managed to wait out another boom without building anything. Good for him.
This is the head of Houston First, who's "leading the effort to have Houston recognized as one of the great cities of the world." Vacant land for decades in prime urban locations sure accomplishes that goal
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Plenty of empty storefronts on main and down grey - I don't get the GFR argument
#short-sighted
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I also wrote this between tokes so my initial judgement might be skewed
"Very okay" had me skeptical...
(just finished munching on some Frosted Mini Wheats)
Munchin' on some Trader Joe's Bran Flakes thinkin' how this almost reminds me of a Richard Meier...
http://www.nybits.com/images/photo/three_glass_buildings.jpg
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Any news at all on this? I drive by it several times a day. I think the window for it to be profitable is starting to close with all the other high rise projects in the works.
I know! Just build the darn thing already!
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So happy they did not choose this design! I want to root for Schaum Shieh because they’re local, but their buildings are either boring or try too hard, in my opinion. This design looks like a slightly updated version of one of the hundreds of mediocre suburban office buildings out Gessner or FM 1960.