august948 Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, urbanize713 said: Noooooo...I was in Denver recently and this renaming of areas has run amok there. In my opinion, we should avoid it anywhere we can. Once you get professional marketing folks involved it's all downhill (DoHi). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Highrise Tower Posted October 10, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2019 Cafe announced for future park in downtown Houston https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2019/10/09/cafe-announced-for-future-park-in-downtown-houston.html Quote When a new downtown park opens, it will have a café from by a familiar company. La Vie de St Concepts, the owner of Tout Suite in East Downtown and Sweet in CityCentre, will operate a café tentatively called Tout Suite SoDo — SoDo being short for Southern Downtown. The café, along with the rest of the park, will break ground March 2020 and will open March 2021. The park park will occupy three-fourths of a block bounded by Bell, San Jacinto, Leeland and Fannin streets in the southern portion of downtown Houston. The property currently is about three blocks northwest of the Toyota Center and two blocks southwest of the mixed-used development GreenStreet. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 On 2019-10-01 at 5:15 PM, august948 said: Once you get professional marketing folks involved it's all downhill (DoHi). Hopefully, if something is too artificial it will meet a justified demise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 38 minutes ago, Specwriter said: Hopefully, if something is too artificial it will meet a justified demise. SoDo isn't any more artificial than EaDo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 At least EaDo is an easy to define area - downtown east of 59, mainly centered on St Emanuel street Where is Sodo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 43 minutes ago, cspwal said: At least EaDo is an easy to define area - downtown east of 59, mainly centered on St Emanuel street Where is Sodo? Sounds like it is the area north of the junction of 45 and 59. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) "SoDo isn't any more artificial than EaDo." I agree, august948. SoDo is neither more or less so than Eado. 😊 Edited October 11, 2019 by Specwriter removed extra word 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 So are we going to call the area around the historic district NoDoz? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 If South Park can have SoDoSoPa, then we truly deserve SoDoHo 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Now that we are naming areas of downtown proper, we'll also need to rebrand EaDo to the more geographically accurate SoEaDo so we can free up the EaDo moniker for area around Discovery Green and Minute Maid. I'll propose DoDo (Downtown Downtown) for the very center. 4 hours ago, bobruss said: So are we going to call the area around the historic district NoDoz? Given the number of homeless in that area, shouldn't we call it NoDough? Edited October 11, 2019 by august948 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 We can call the areas with high concentrations of homeless NoDough as august 948 suggests and the areas with the big banks MoDo, and areas that flood as LoDo. I especially like the suggestion of DoDo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 NoDoz - the neighborhood that never sleeps. Catchy. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 We have GRASS! 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 It's too bad the park didn't take up the entire block. It's such a Houston thing for a tiny park in Downtown have a big parking lot attached to it. I wonder if the DRA tried to acquire that parcel but couldn't, or if they intentionally left it there because of Houston's ridiculous minimum parking requirements. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 On 7/29/2018 at 12:09 AM, cspwal said: So they had the planning meetings this Thursday and Saturday, and I went to both. It is very much still in the planning stages; the Saturday session was a full on brainstorming session with the 21 people who showed up. A few details that I learned: They were only able to acquire a 30 year lease on the good year property and the parking lot at the corner of Leeland and San Jacinto. The land is owned by a trust that won't let them sell it but they can do a lease. The Southern Texas College of Law didn't want to give up their parking lot to let this be a full block park - the current plan is a fence between it and the park. The project is already fully funded by the Downtown Redevelopment Authority Goodyear's lease is up in March, and they expect construction on the park to start in April. They're targeting a Summer 2020 opening date. Here are the boards from the happy hour with the categories they're looking at. I couldn't figure out how this broken forum software could let me embed the photos. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/928/29833049758_609bf90afd_k.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/934/29833051638_dd53b58186_k.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/857/43656374522_78fddc6f41_k.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/859/29833051348_756790e647_k.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/862/43656371632_d549f53e73_k.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/860/29833050268_82c6d5236d_k.jpg 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 48 minutes ago, Howard Huge said: It's too bad the park didn't take up the entire block. It's such a Houston thing for a tiny park in Downtown have a big parking lot attached to it. I wonder if the DRA tried to acquire that parcel but couldn't, or if they intentionally left it there because of Houston's ridiculous minimum parking requirements. One thing we know with absolute certainty: It had/has nothing to do with any minimum parking requirements. (There are no minimum parking requirements in downtown Houston.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanjorade Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, Howard Huge said: It's too bad the park didn't take up the entire block. It's such a Houston thing for a tiny park in Downtown have a big parking lot attached to it. I wonder if the DRA tried to acquire that parcel but couldn't, or if they intentionally left it there because of Houston's ridiculous minimum parking requirements. I believe the lot is owned by South Texas law school. Apparently they didn't want to sell. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 53 minutes ago, Sanjorade said: I believe the lot is owned by South Texas law school. Apparently they didn't want to sell. Hate that they don't want to contribute to the revitalization of down 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Houston19514 said: One thing we know with absolute certainty: It had/has nothing to do with any minimum parking requirements. (There are no minimum parking requirements in downtown Houston.) Well that's good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Supposed to start in September. Scope of work: https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2020020931 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Park as of August 22, 2020 - all traces of Goodyear are gone 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 10:02 AM, Houston19514 said: Lots of Interesting stuff regarding plans for Segment 3. Scroll to page 29 Trebley Parc (or Park) as the suggested name of this park. See Page 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 What is Trebley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HNathoo Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Apparently bids came in above budget. Looks like the ground breaking will be delayed: http://www.downtowndistrict.org/static/media/uploads/Board Books/201008_hdmd_board_materials.pdf Southern Downtown Park: Following public advertisement (July 16-30, 2020) for contractor procurement, two valid proposals were submitted on August 20, 2020 per the competitive sealed proposal method. A 5-member evaluation panel reviewed both proposals. Based on the evaluation process, staff presented its recommendation for the preferred general contractor to the Authority’s Capital Projects Committee (CPC) on September 3, 2020, which subsequently directed staff and consultants to initiate a value engineering process with the contractor, as both proposals received exceed the project’s budget. Staff and the preferred contractor were not able to achieve sufficient savings during the VE process. Upon advisement from the CPC, the Authority intends to re-bid the project later in 2020 which results in the project construction and final delivery being postponed, likely during 1Q 2021 but the specific project timeline has not been finalized as of this memo. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staresatmaps Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Today 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Avossos Posted December 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 4, 2020 1 hour ago, staresatmaps said: Today that parking lot is extremely annoying 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staresatmaps Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Nothing new 7 Jan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HNathoo Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Here is some info from the TIRZ regarding this project: The Southern Downtown Park is a 2021 capital improvement project of the Downtown Redevelopment Authority. Bidding documents are currently out to contractors, with bids due January 25th. If all goes well, we will seek board approval on February 9th to enter agreement with contractor who provides the best proposal, with an estimated one-year construction schedule to commence in early March / final completion in early April 2022 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post staresatmaps Posted March 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2021 Groundbreaking for "Trebly Park" because it is on block 333 and has 3 corners due to the terrible parking lot. Estimated completion of March 2022. Will include Tout Suite cafe. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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