asubrt

8 hours ago, Marray said:

I am not sure why the animosity towards people who ACTUALLY LIVE in the Rice Village area...

This post feels like someone trained a ChatGPT bot by exclusively reading monarch content

When I worked there they divided the inpatient side into four towers: Main Building, Dunn Tower, Fondren/Brown/Alkek (I guess they have been combined into one building on the inside), and Jones Tower. Now they have the Walter tower and soon the Centennial tower as well. It was already hard enough trying to cover patients in all four buildings at the time, I can't imagine having to go to all six every day.

The other side of Fannin is outpatient with Scurlock Tower, Smith Tower, and the Outpatient Center (plus the West Pavilion which was more of a LTAC/rehab center I think)

It's pretty clear that in United's hub structure IAH won't be getting many trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific routes any time soon (maybe CDG or ZRH in the next five years, but not much imo). However, I think there is the opportunity to increase Central/South American flying in the relatively near future. Which of these destinations (or others) could we realistically see in the next few years? I know that the vast majority of these won't happen, but they are largely destinations that were previously served by CO/UA, or served from other US cities.

Mexico:

Chihuahua (CUU)

Durango (DGO)

Huatulco (HUX)

Loreto (LTO)

Toluca (TLC)

Torreon (TRC)

Tuxtla Gutierrez (TGZ)

Zacatecas (ZCL)

Central America:

David Sur, Panama (DAV)

Flores, Guatemala (FRS)

La Ceiba, Honduras (LCE)

South America:

Cali, Colombia (CLO)

Cartagena, Colombia (CTG)

Cusco, Peru (CUZ)

Guayaquil, Ecuador (GYE)

Montevideo, Uruguay (MVD)

Santa Cruz, Bolivia (VVI)

Caribbean: 

Barbados (BGI)

Curacao (CUR)

Freeport, Bahamas (FPO)

Grenada (GND)

Kingston, Jamaica (KIN)

St. Lucia (UVF)

St. Maarten (SXM)

The momentum continues! United is starting daily 737 flights to Medellin, Colombia on October 27, 2024. 

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240307-ua2h24intl

Still not the major addition we are hoping for, but UA is starting seasonal Saturday-only E-175 service to Traverse City, Michigan (TVC) from June 29 to August 17. This makes four new destinations from UA starting this year, joining SAF, TQO, and GEO (though only Tulum is year-round daily). Fingers crossed that once the International Terminal construction is complete in the next year we will see more destinations. 
 

https://www.traverseticker.com/news/cherry-capital-airport-adds-direct-service-to-houston/

I wonder with this much increased cruise capacity if there’s any chance at a weekend flight or two to Scholes Airport? Doubtful, but a Saturday/Sunday-only service to DFW on AA or ATL on Delta would be cool.

I have noticed pages load significantly faster since I went ad-free with HAIF+ (I really just wanted to support the site, but this has been a massive benefit), so it’s possible the ads may be a part of the slow load times. 

On 1/28/2024 at 12:19 AM, asubrt said:

The First Horizon Bank has closed and moved down the street/parking lot to the old Community Bank location at the corner of Gessner and I-10. Hoping we are inching towards progress…

That was fast... there's construction fencing around the now-empty bank building, guessing demolition is imminent. 

On 1/26/2024 at 2:33 PM, mattyt36 said:

New international routes for DFW served in 2024 not served pre-COVID:

AKL (long haul), BCN (long haul), HEL (long haul), HND (long haul), IST, LTO, MEL (long haul), MID, TQO, XPL, ZLO

New routes for IAH in 2024:

GEO, HND (long haul), NLU, TQO, XPL

New airlines for DFW: Finnair, Iberia, Turkish

New airlines for IAH: Volaris El SalvadoR

Add another destination for DFW… looks like AA is starting Dallas-Brisbane this year 🫤

On 4/1/2023 at 4:03 PM, asubrt said:

Great to see the old Sears Auto Center finally coming down. I'm wondering how much longer the First Horizon Bank (the other building in that large parking lot) will remain open/standing. Once that closes and is demolished I think things will really start moving.

The First Horizon Bank has closed and moved down the street/parking lot to the old Community Bank location at the corner of Gessner and I-10. Hoping we are inching towards progress…

Yikes, that is an absolutely brutal schedule to start. 17 of the first 20 against very good teams (plus 13 at home so you can pencil those in as L's already).

4 hours ago, hindesky said:

"CityCentre Six will be a 19-story, 320K SF Class-A office tower in CityCentre, a mixed-use complex in west Houston, Midway announced Wednesday. A confidential tenant has signed a lease for 65% of the building, and construction is scheduled to begin in the second quarter. Completion is slated for 2026.

Wow that's awesome news! This will definitely be the best-looking building in the CityCentre/T&C area... if it holds up to the renderings. Fingers crossed they don't take away the wavy aspect and just turn it into a box.

6 hours ago, editor said:

The Post is for urban wannabes who want to cosplay cosmopolitan urbanity from the sanitized safety of a rooftop, across a moat, and a half-mile away from the downtown core.  It's for the people who pull their kids nearer to them when they walk past someone sleeping on the sidewalk.  A not-quite-Disneyfied version of what it's like to be downtown.

- Post's parking situation is a lot less scary for people used to parking at Target and Kohl's, instead of inside parking garages. Plus they don't have to deal with one-way streets, which make people from outside Beltway 8 fudge their Huggies.

Incredibly condescending points aside, Post's biggest strength is that it actually has some really good food spots that you can't find anywhere else. Andes Cafe, Chòpnblok, and Golfstrømmen are all phenomenal, destination-worthy restaurants. Not to mention multiple other strong concepts with enough variety to cater to nearly any taste. I find Post is an awesome spot to meet up with folks from across the Houston area in a central location where everyone can get something they enjoy.

On 12/7/2023 at 3:30 PM, BEES?! said:

I’m curious to know how Lyric is doing, speaking of food halls. I always like the way they do their lighting displays. It seems they’ve have at least some turnover, but I don’t know how many of their current concepts are original from when they first opened. Definitely it has a different atmosphere and vibe compared to POST, and the two are fairly close, distance-wise. 

Have been there twice now on off-peak hours, once on a Sunday afternoon before the opera matinee, and this past Thursday night before the Akon concert. Both times there were slightly more people than I expected, but still not crowded by any means. I imagine it gets much busier at lunch time on weekdays. This week there were a couple of vacant stalls, and the place I wanted to try (1929 Po Bo Kitchen) had already closed by 6:30 PM, even though Lyric Market is technically open until 10 PM on Thursdays. That being said, the waffle place was magnificent.

14 minutes ago, wilcal said:

I had heard of the new Tulum route (I thought it started March 31) but I am SHOCKED it has taken this long to get a Santa Fe route. 

I know ABQ isn't that far away, but when I went last year I would have loved to ditch a car in Santa Fe as much of the things I wanted to do could have been accomplished with an Uber or bike. 

You're right on the start date, I got it confused with the LAX-TQO start date which is May 23.

6 hours ago, wilcal said:

UA adding 4x weekly IAH-GEO flights.

I would def go if the price ever got cheap!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-expands-in-houston-with-2-6b-terminal-project-state-of-the-art-baggage-system-new-club-and-thousands-of-new-jobs-302002015.html

Wow! Didn't see these mentioned, but United is also adding 2x daily service to the new Tulum airport beginning March 23, and 1x weekly service to Santa Fe, NM beginning March 9. It's still a few cry from the way they'll add 7 long haul routes out of SFO at a time (for example), but this is an absolute bounty of new routes for IAH considering the way United has shafted us over the past several years.

Interesting that this seems to be moving forward before City Centre 7/AC Hotel (now shown as Future Development in the site map), which was confusingly supposed to start first. 

Not technically City Centre, but they demolished the shopping center next to the new Town Centre Two tower (previously home to Nori Sushi and the original KP‘s Kitchen location) and the James Coney Island across the street. Signs seem to indicate that it will be replaced with a more modern-looking strip mall. 

Not sure if it’s actually any meaningful progress, but there is definitely work going on at the previously halted flagship Lulu Lemon construction site. There’s some new-ish bright red foam board insulation (I think that’s what it is anyway) on the Westheimer side, and multiple workers on site doing something on the upper levels 

Pretty much a foregone conclusion at this point, but looks like ROD Phase II/Equinox Hotel aren’t happening, at least not any time soon. That land now has for sale signs up on the fence

32 minutes ago, Nate_56 said:

Looks like it's on the east side of S Post Oak and Longmont?

Feels like there are so many things that have been proposed for this spot or right nearby (next door at the Wynden and adjacent behind the Granduca) and nothing ever gets built. 

I think the things NRG falls behind on are largely premium seating options/quality, as others have mentioned above. It also could use some visual upgrades, as it looks somewhat dated, especially the rather spartan concourses. I also wish there were more escalators to speed up access to/from ground level, rather than just one set per corner of the stadium. 

3 hours ago, southerncrj said:

Well folks, sad news: after only 10 months open, it seems it's the end of the (short) road for Black Page. They're closing down: 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=797314278764928&set=a.579205343909157

Bummer, it was a pretty cool spot. But unless you were at a show at WOMH it was a pretty inconvenient location, especially with concert traffic many nights.
Seems like the brewery bubble is finally bursting to some degree in Houston, this one joins CounterCommon, Bakfish, Battlehops, Fetching Lab, Cycler’s, Wicked Boxer, Twisted Acre, and possible a few others to shut down in the last year or so. 

Could this finally be the development on the "Post Oak Corner" site at the SW corner of Post Oak and 610? The only other empty lots in the immediate vicinity are on Garrettson behind The Astoria and on Hollyhurst/Hallmark behind Willie G's.

21 minutes ago, hindesky said:

The 58 story building was going to be apartments not offices. His old Mann Eye Clinic building is/was to become more medical offices.

Well we officially have zero apartment/residential towers over 50 floors, so I think the point still holds. Of course I wanted it to get built, just wasn’t holding my breath.