CREguy13 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I'm all for the DLI, but I personally don't think there should be more large-scale incentives like this for developers to come downtown. The nudge in the right direction was crucial, but let the market determine the rest. You have less risk for players to enter the market that otherwise should not have been in the game, w/o the additional funding. I want downtown to be a destination like anyone else, but let the invisible hand do the work. There does not need to be a retail-incentive package. You have the possibility of 5,000 units coming online in the next 2-3 years. All of these residents have the disposable income that will make retailers want to be downtown. The Allen Center and Houston Center proposed GF improvements will really enhance the street level bringing more people up from the tunnels and opening up more opportunity for retailers. Safe, walkable, and lively downtown streets will further promote downtown living, and removing incentives will make the market more competitive giving consumers the best finished product. The units under development will create a domino-effect and the outcome everyone is hoping for. All of the above is just my opinion, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nate99 Posted April 30, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2015 Thems a lot of pilings. Looks like they are about to construct a core. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Downtown Houston build an indoor public ice rink someplace, charge a reasonable fee to skate. Build a rock climbing place in the Warehouse District. Build a trampoline gym there too, and a big lazer tag place.Thank you, Timoric.I shall now steal your ideas and make untold MILLIONS from them. You are a great man indeed, a TRUE visionary! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Thems a lot of pilings. Looks like they are about to construct a core. Like the colors and saturation of this pic, whatever you did differently... (maybe tinted window?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Like the colors and saturation of this pic, whatever you did differently... (maybe tinted window?) Tinted window and I cropped it down from a larger file so there is less resolution than if I had an actual camera that I could set the frame from where I was. Totally accidental, but the sunlight angle was in my favor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largeTEXAS Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 (edited) I wonder if they could do a similar incentive for retail - something like a sales tax break on all groceries or dry-goods sold. (Yes I realize the grocery basics don't have sales tax but prepared frozen food does, toilet paper, etc - things that Phoenicia doesn't have anyway)There have been retail and restaurant incentives in place since about 2005. OKRA, Batanga, Oxheart, Honeymoon, Little Dipper, El Big Bad, etc used them to get open. Only soft good retailer I know of that used the retail incentive was the Tipping Point, which has now closed. American Apparel was set to receive incentives about 10 years ago before the landlord of the Sakowitz building pulled the deal from them. Edited May 1, 2015 by largeTEXAS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 From the ground... Residences at Market Square Houston by marclongoria, on Flickr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Have we seen in renders of this from the main street side? Wondering how it will fit in with the other buildings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie21love Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Have we seen in renders of this from the main street side? Wondering how it will fit in with the other buildings...There will be a pocket park… 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Triton Posted May 15, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2015 Residences at Market Square Houston by Marc longoria, on Flickr 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREguy13 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Great shot. I also like how you can see 609 Main rise in the background. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Looks like they finally finished redoing all the windows on the back of the State National building, too. At least it will look good for the residents who will be looking at it from their apartments! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted May 17, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2015 The big pour for the foundation is happening Sunday. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bob Fretz Posted May 18, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2015 This is today's mat foundation pour before the rains. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 ^^^ superb work hindesky! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Any good rooftop bars in downtown, current or coming soon? Or a building that SHOULD have one on top?There's one in the Hilton, 1 Shell (Houston Club), Total Plaza (petroleum club), but those are venues that you have to be a member or rent out. There's one ontop of the Wedge that's a restaurant but it has office hours. Spindle top on the Hyatt (restaurant). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 There's one in the Hilton, 1 Shell (Houston Club), Total Plaza (petroleum club), but those are venues that you have to be a member or rent out. There's one ontop of the Wedge that's a restaurant but it has office hours. Spindle top on the Hyatt (restaurant). I don't think those qualify as roofTOP. I think he is talking about outdoor areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 I don't think those qualify as roofTOP. I think he is talking about outdoor areas.Wedge has a balcony. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Just Proof in Midtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanize713 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Also the plans for the old Central Bank building called for a rooftop restaurant/bar facing dowtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 ^^ A "concept"...for the old central bank building... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 House of Blues has a patio by the Bronze/Peacock? bar. Granted it's not very high but it's kind of cool to be in the canyon of all the tall buildings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 House of Blues has a patio by the Bronze/Peacock? bar. Granted it's not very high but it's kind of cool to be in the canyon of all the tall buildings.If patios count, my vote is Bad News Bar. I love being slightly above a dense, energetic corner of downtown. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Nate99 Posted June 4, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2015 Reverse angle: 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 ^^^ and we're off! superb job nate99... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nate99 Posted June 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2015 Looks like my phone focused on the cars in the foreground rather than the intended subject... 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Looks like my phone focused on the cars in the foreground rather than the intended subject... Still a cool pic with an interesting perspective. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post amashgo Posted June 19, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2015 (edited) Since I have shamelessly stalked this forum since precon, figured I'd start sharing: Panorama from today (need to work on settings to get wider angle) And backtracking a smidge, pouring of the big cap: (again, bad panorama, the cap is not wobbly like that!) The post memorial weekend aftermath: View of north downtown from the crane: Edited June 19, 2015 by amashgo 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Well, my “hand over the fence” shots seem pretty bush league now. Thanks for sharing, hope the water didn’t hurt anything important. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Well, my “hand over the fence” shots seem pretty bush league now. Thanks for sharing, hope the water didn’t hurt anything important. Your hand over the fence shots were pretty good - we were speculating on whether you just got a good zoom through fence or climbed up something. Mystery solved! Progress is relatively important; I cannot wait to get elevated and get out of the mud! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Your hand over the fence shots were pretty good - we were speculating on whether you just got a good zoom through fence or climbed up something. Mystery solved! Progress is relatively important; I cannot wait to get elevated and get out of the mud!You the operator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 You the operator? Negative ghostrider. Would be a very cool job, but I am far to social to sit isolated for 10-12 hours a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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monarch Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 ^^^ cool illustration nate99! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Before these things get to the first floor, they sure take forever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 ^ Rain. It may not look like it, but we're moving. Stay tuned in the next few weeks. I have heard there is a couple of other projects in the state that have actually bypassed SOG because of mud and just went elevated because they couldn't get it dry enough to get select fill or if they could get dry material it wouldn't be for long. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 SOG? and yeah I was thinking the rain probably was hurting the time schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREguy13 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Slab on Grade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Before these things get to the first floor, they sure take forever. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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amashgo Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 For everyones viewing pleasure. I also get grabbed some shots of the other project across the park - those will be up shortly. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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