samagon

I'd hope that any extra police activity would at least slow the illicit activities.

well, if Greyhound had gone to the Heights, they would have probably had to design a 1930s style building so they are a contributing structure in one of the historic districts. could have been neat! for the city confusion on this, I think they have a valid point, they have that major transit center that was a block away from the Greyhound station, while it's true the Greyhound station on Harrisburg is a few steps away from a rail stop (same as was on Main street), getting to the downtown transit center from the EE Greyhound will be a lot less convenient, having to transfer from one train to another, and then you have to get to the transit center, vs just walking to the transit center. if the city/METRO could have worked with Greyhound on this, maybe they could have accommodated something at the Fannin South Transit Center for Greyhound to operate. at least people trying to get to the downtown transit center would only have to get on one train to get to the center, rather than 2. and certainly, accessing a terminal that would be that close to a freeway would be great for Greyhound themselves. that's pie in the sky talk though, as that would never happen.

that Nextdoor comment is a bit out there, but the safety and security around the station is going to be a problem. anyone that's ever driven by the midtown location can see that with their own eyes. McDonalds walked away from their midtown location due to the safety impact. there's a flea market right around the block from here with a great community, if the vagrancy that occurs around the midtown location follows to this location, it will be a problem for the immediate community. all that said, there's a fairly significant homeless population near Harrisburg and Wayside already, and they stay pretty well in that immediate area, so I would presume that the East End overall should be fine. as far as Eastwood park, I'd be not too overly concerned about that, Mason park, and the Brays Bayou trail in that area on the other hand... also, city leaders are pretending like they had no idea this was happening. https://abc13.com/greyhound-houston-magnolia-park-closing-in-city-leaders/14119553/

hopefully when Wayside is done being rebuilt, they will stop using neighborhood streets like Dismuke to get to the Greyhound station.

at the peril of ruining my 'back way' into Hobby from downtown area.. do not exit Broadway. stay on Gulf Freeway for 1 more exit, turn right on Monroe, then right on Airport. skipping Broadway and taking Monroe to Airport is exactly the same time. or go crazy and exit Reveille, it takes a minute longer than going Broadway or Monroe, but you are off the freeway faster.

no doubt TXDoT will say it needs to be expanded to 5 lanes of traffic in each direction with 4 managed lanes. rather than questioning the idiocy, everyone will nod their heads because they can't imagine any other way.

if it's timed with the i45 expansion, then yeah, that timetable sounds right. it's hard to for me to grasp even, looking at my daughter who is 2 now, might be old enough to drive when all this is completed. which inevitably means we are all going to be impacted by the construction for that long. sucky times ahead.

I am hopefully going to get a walkthrough of the hub in early December.

east end is growing :)

I hope someone can make it there.

well, maybe we can just accept that it is a space that still provides amusement for some, even though the park sadly shut down nearly 20 years ago now.

interestingly, I had written another bit that I erased before hitting submit. if you've ever been to wrigley field, you know it's in a dense urban environment, and it feels like it. that strip of bars on Texas helped it feel just a little bit like an actual dense urban environment, giving a hint of an electricity that you get at wrigley field. they might not have looked like much, but they were more atmosphere than we currently have, and probably better than anything that might be built, certainly better than another mega hotel.

even without your well thought and reasoned response, what things on that list of the Mets maybe amenities don't already exist in close proximity to MMP? conference area (George R Brown) park (Discovery Green, only 12 acres though) hotel (Marriott Marquis, Hilton Americas, Westin, etc) bars and restaurants (more than I can list) tailgate area (do people tailgate for baseball?) public plaza (if that's different from a park, then ok, there's the Avenida Plaza) solar panels (aren't there some on top of GRB?, and is that really something people are going to stop and say "hey, let's go hang out there, they have solar panels!") bike path (there's a few) renovated train station (do we need to renovate the rail stop already?) playground (I'm struggling to see why that is its own bullet when park is on the list already, and what's the difference between a park and a plaza anyway?) if we must though, disco green has some significant kid friendly areas food hall, and community space. is that seriously an amenity, and did they run out of creative names for public space after they used park, and plaza, so they just called it "community space"? other than that, there's a sportsbook and a casino, both of which are fairly illegal in Houston, pretty sure he'd end up in jail if he opened either. wouldn't the better use of funds be used somewhere else? maybe to make the team better so that more people come to an already flush downtown and are exposed to what's already good in that area of downtown?

article raising questions about how safe cap parks are (or aren't) for lung health. https://www.cpr.org/2023/10/30/colorado-built-a-park-over-i-70-to-contain-pollution-is-the-air-safe-to-breathe/

8 weeks left in the year, if they manage to get it open before EoY, it'll be close.

I would have thought this would have been a great Aldi's, or Trader Joe's location. I guess we don't have enough super sized gas stations in the area though.

see, if I were going to use this name for a place, it would be specifically for statements like this that I would argue that this needs to be the name. are we sure it's a night club and not a strip club?

and I guess it matters too that there are east facing patios on the 2 upper living levels.

I was imagining if something like this were tried in the Heights. which naturally led to me imagining the number of entitled drivers that would either run into this, or complain of how unsafe it is, or impossible to navigate with their oversized emotional support trucks.

I like that they have a rooftop patio, but facing west, that's going to be completely unusable at least 4 months out of the year. and whoever buys them has to hope that the rest of the land doesn't end up with a building taller than the patios.

I like the idea of being able to take the rail to pick up a rental truck (or drop off). the logistics of getting someone to drop me off/pick me up from the uhaul is gone. also, if I'm renting it for a few hours, I don't have to worry about parking in a sketch lot.

campaign contributions ensures votes.

if they're like the concrete curbs on Lawndale between Telephone and Wayside (where the residential fronts Lawndale), then people will still park in the bike lane.

or look at his campaign contributors, that has more to do with it than which side of the aisle he sits.

hopefully you didn't drive on the curbs!