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  1. Texasota
    Yes. This is momentum. 4 adjacent blocks of residential/hotel, and ground floor retail starts to make real sense.
  2. Texasota
    The dichotomy here *is* pretty ridiculous, but if there's no market impetus to make "better" use of the site, then McDonald's will do whatever is in their best interest. "We" only have a say in the matter insofar as we're willing to change city ordinances, and "we" have pretty routinely voted against zoning of any kind, for better and for worse. *Although, wouldn't this be subject to transit corridor regulations? I realize that, as written, those are really more suggestions than hard requirements, but...
  3. Texasota
    Now we're getting somewhere!
  4. Texasota
    Except! Think about that site. Immediately east is Houston House; immediately west is the soon to be renovated Savoy. That's not to say just *any* retail would succeed, but I think it could work if carefully curated.
  5. Texasota
    I kind of really like that site plan. Dividing the block helps separate parking garage traffic from pedestrian shoppers. There's retail and a little dog park on Main. Retail on Leeland gestures vaguely toward toyota center, discovery green etc.
  6. Texasota
    ...And this is the problem right here. The idea that the tunnels are some sort of refuge from homeless people.
  7. Texasota
    I've never been a fan of the Market Street murals. There's one facing (I think) Lake Woodlands of a smiling boy holding some fruit. It is absolutely terrifying.
  8. Texasota
    nice. i do wonder what it would take to convince developers to build out canopies/ loggias etc to make our sidewalks genuinely pleasant even in the summer.
  9. Texasota
    I would love to see this integrate with the trails. maybe a little bridge.
  10. Texasota
    That's actually a great use in the short term, particularly considering its proximity to the bayou. Do you have a source?
  11. Texasota
    I for one *like* 19th street, which is why I want to see bars and venues go in to help diversify it. A commercial strip that shuts down at 7 is not sustainable, and the occasional evening artsy events just isnt enough. Adding bars and clubs doesnt usually involve demoing anything; actually they tend to renovate and repurpose historic properties.
  12. Texasota
    "No one going to a big bar or live music club is going to shop for antiques, boutique clothing, or home decor on 19th street before they go to see Sparkle Pony." Are you familiar with a little street named Westheimer?
  13. Texasota
    Yeah White Oak is fine. Not personally a big fan of Christian's, but White Oak has managed to stay pretty diverse despite adding businesses. I did prefer Beer Island to Little Woodrow's, but that's mostly just nostalgia. I don't want 19th to become Washington, but the fact that it shuts down by 7 or 8 *is* a problem and a wasted opportunity. The advantage of a venue over a bar or restaurant is that it becomes a destination. It pulls varying crowds depending on whos playing, and helps draw other bars in restaurants in to chase the new crowds. I'm not a fan of the fact that that area is dry, but, as DownHouse shows, that doesnt totally preclude new places opening. I lived in NC for two years, and the whole state is "dry" in the same way. You just get used to becoming a "member" of every bar.
  14. Texasota
    I really, really wish they would keep the church building and repurpose it into a "private" bar/club/venue. I'm not even joking. The biggest problem with 19th is its lack of nightlife, and, combined with DownHouse an alternative to Fitz's/Number's/Rudz etc would really help solve that
  15. Texasota
    That's... actually pretty underwhelming for $300 million.
  16. Texasota
    @daniepwils Great. Way more convenient to get home at the end of the night.
  17. Texasota
    Old Sears: http://www.houstondeco.org/1920s/sears.html My understanding is that it had serious flooding issues (as that link suggests) that made it pretty much impossible to restore and maintain.
  18. Texasota
    Yeah this is just weird, though very Houstonian. Integrating the mcdonalds into the base of the tower would have made more sense. I wonder if Astoria didnt want to deal with retail, or if the rent they would ask would have been to high? I would have thought that property values in that area would have made wasting a lot on a drive-through mcdonalds less than desirable
  19. Texasota
    mediocrity
  20. Texasota
    no complaints here.
  21. Texasota
    I'm also not sure I understand how this facility doesn't "fit." Montrose is still a relatively mixed neighborhood with homeless teens, starving artists and students. Yes, Midtown keeps marching west, but so what? Yuppies won't use a clinic they can walk to?
  22. Texasota
    Hooray! It's inoffensive!
  23. Texasota
    um, that part of midtown (though not that exact block) was washington before washington was.
  24. Texasota
    eh, i would argue that a parking garage with a retail component is actually perfect for the area, especially with the massive apartment building going on south of alabama. Like it or not, parking is necessary, and this seems like the best way to keep parking while still keeping the streetfront along main as pedestrian friendly as possible. it also avoids the various issues developers run into when mixing retail and residential in a single building.
  25. Texasota
    If you look at the render, Double Trouble's building *is* there, it just has a strange second story extension built above it. If I remember correctly, the original plan was to tear down the building, but when the developer actually started clearing it out he decided it was worth keeping.
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