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htownproud

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  1. I'm confused. The post you replied to said that it was not going to be a full degree-granting campus and not a UT-Houston. You agreed, and then said it would be like UT-Dallas, which is a full degree-granting campus. In other words, you seem to say it will be exactly what the original poster said it would not be. Perhaps I had too much eggnog over the holidays . . . .
  2. Again, I didn't go to either school -- all I care about is how this affects TMC3. If putting in a school worse than UT-Arlington kills TMC3 then I am against it.
  3. Fair point. I was being charitable. I should have said I would rather have TMC3 than something even worse than UT-Arlington, which as you note is what is being proposed.. If it won't affect the funding of TMC3, then let's hear that from UT officials.
  4. As someone that went to neither school, my two cents are that if this new campus threatens TMC3 then I am firmly against it. With no disrespect, I would much rather have (and think it would be much better for the city to have) TMC3 than another UT Arlington or insert other sataleite UT campus. Those UT satellites are fine schools, but it would not be a "game changers" here in Houston. TMC3 might not be either, but it's got a chance. I would like to see a clear statement from UT on TMC3.
  5. Do you mind my asking where you heard this? As someone that lives in Southgate (i.e., the west say of Travis), I would be very interested in plans to open it up at Holcombe. Would the city need to give public notice of any such plans?
  6. Yes it is naive to believe that people other than you won't think that a homeless shelter and soup kitchen in the middle of a trendy part of town is an eyesore and/or dangerous. There are certain areas of town that I think we should be proud of, and we should not plop a magnet for homeless people down in those areas. For example, I also don't think we should move the Greyhound station to the middle of the Galleria or line Discovery Green with nothing but halfway houses. This part of midtown along the rail is becoming one of those areas that we could be proud of.
  7. The press release says that it will also be a detox center for people just entering recovery. It also says that it will provide meals for the homeless still living on the streets. To suggest that this won't be an eye sore and/or dangerous is naive. No doubt these services are needed, but i agree with the point that perhaps the best place for this is not along the rail across the street from new "luxury" apartments, class a office space, and new retail/restaurants. They could have sold the land and moved just a few blocks off the rail -- with the money they saved, they could have offered much more in services.
  8. Does anyone know what the plans are for the track at University and Main? They tore down the bleachers there in August. I assume they are going to rebuild something nicer, but I haven't seen any renderings.
  9. Fingers crossed we get a mattress store there. It's so inconvenient to drive to Mattrose or the stores on Sunset/Kirby.
  10. My biggest issue with the homeless downtown is the drug problem, and in particular Kush. I would say that every third time I catch the Red Line going south after 8:00 pm at Central Station I am offered drugs. Last week there were cops there running people off for smoking Kush on the platform, but they are back the next day. Over the holiday, I took the train to the UH game, and there was a completely deranged woman that got on yelling at everyone. Most people got up and moved to the other end of the train. The conductor eventually stopped the train and said he would call the cops if she didn't get off. She got off at the next stop, and then jumped in front of the train to scare the conductor. She then walked over to the SE corner of Herman Park, which I understand is now affectionately referred to as Kush Park. My brother-in-law visiting from New York got the pleasure of explaining to my 6-year old nephew what drugs are, why people abuse them, etc. The drug/homeless problem along the rail line in downtown, wheeler station, and the SE corner of Herman Park needs to be addressed if the city wants to continue to take steps forward to be seen as a world class city.
  11. After reading this, I don't believe that you have been to Chicago. To suggest that the homeless problem along Main Street in Houston is in anyway similar to the homeless problem along Michigan Ave is ridiculous (hint -- there isn't a problem along the Magnificent Mile unless you include human statues that go home every night).
  12. Let's hope the repave Fairview as part of this and put in better sidewalks.
  13. Hopefully some day that will be true, but I think it would be pretty difficult today for them to suffice downtown. Between the homeless everywhere, lack of grocery stores, and lack of more than one pharmacy, I think it would be hard for them (and the construction would make it difficult for them as well). I'm with you though. In 10 or 15 years when there is a more urban environment in downtown, it would be great to see several of these downtown.
  14. Every gas plant and refinery construction site I've gone to require steel toed boots for all visitors that step outside the office. The commercial and residential construction sites I have been to have not required them (although it's been 15 years since I've been to one of those).
  15. I'm all for new density and mid/high rises, but this seems out of place. Maybe in 50 years there will be some mid-rises over by Fannin, but right now this seems more out of place than the Ashby High Rise.
  16. Good find, although I'm a bit skeptical of this claim. I would think other more urban cities would be the third choice. Chicago in particular, but also San Fran and Boston. Then again, I don't operate in this area, so I defer to these guys.
  17. Seems like this has been the view from my office since the beginning of the year.
  18. Good point, although I've seen it work in other cities. For example, Chicago's medical district in the Gold Coast/Streeterville area (i.e., Northwestern, etc.). Residential, hotels, shopping, and hospitals all together (I don't know if they have a trauma center there though), In my experience, if you're in a hospital room in the TMC, you don't hear the sirens, so I suspect the same would be true of apartments and hotels.
  19. Not going to happen with that occupancy threshold unless something medicine related decides to set-up shop there (it's close to halfway between DT and the med center).
  20. Missing from the depiction is the army of homeless that hang out around there.
  21. I like it, but agree that it will seem out of place. I will say that I had just assumed they were making a larger surface parking lot on this space (as crazy as that seemed to me), so this is at least better than that.
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