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phillip_white Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 On 8/14/2021 at 4:16 PM, hindesky said: This seems like it's going to take as long as the Caroline St replacement. It's starting to look that way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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phillip_white Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 They've finished grading the parking area and placed some of the forms. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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phillip_white Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Brooklyn173 said: I just noticed they cut down the oak tree that used to be next to the telephone pole. 😢 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 17 hours ago, phillip_white said: I just noticed they cut down the oak tree that used to be next to the telephone pole. 😢 I thought a city ordinance was passed a few years ago that forbids developers from cutting down mature trees on the ROW. Of course, if it was on private property there's probably little or no action the city could have taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Talked with the superintendent who said the top floor is already leased out to a doctor. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 The address on this should be changed to 2204 Austin St. Even the banner on site says 2204 Austin. @Highrise Tower @Urbannizer @editor  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I think Hines could build another Texas Tower before these guys finish. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Tranquillo whey tranquillo 😂 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 This is dead in the water, zero progress in months. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 I wonder what's going on with this project. They were making good progress, then all of a sudden nothing. I have noticed a car has been parked on the property at times, which I'm assuming is hired security. Hopefully that's a positive sign. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 On 1/9/2023 at 5:38 PM, phillip_white said: I wonder what's going on with this project. They were making good progress, then all of a sudden nothing. I have noticed a car has been parked on the property at times, which I'm assuming is hired security. Hopefully that's a positive sign. An employee of the GC had the gate open as I was driving by. They confirmed the project is stalled, but didn't mention the issue. Construction will be moving forward when it's resolved. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 They brought the project back to life. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Workers are here daily during the week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Still not in love with the design (wish it fronted Austin or Caroline instead of Webster, for one thing), but man, it is nice to know that it won't just be a half-comstructed mess forever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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phillip_white Posted June 13 Author Share Posted June 13 Scaffolding is back up along Austin. This seems to be moving at a brisk pace after a long period of inactivity. Wonder if they finally landed a tenant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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j_cuevas713 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 I hope this project sparks more in the area. The overall design is nice, clean and not overly complicated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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j_cuevas713 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I hate when highway access is a highlight of the property 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 16 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: I hate when highway access is a highlight of the property I agree, but it's unlikely to change soon for business-to-business advertising. But yeah, it's a stroad mindset. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs315 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Dont, wait! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 39 minutes ago, 004n063 said: it's a stroad mindset Stroad? I didn't find it in my dictionary. A combination of strange and toad, or a typo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 1 hour ago, editor said: Stroad? I didn't find it in my dictionary. A combination of strange and toad, or a typo? It's a portmanteau of street and road. Popularized (to some extent) by Chuck Marohn the Strong Towns organization. Basically posits that there is a thing, for which we might as well use the term "street," and another thing, for which we might as well use the term "road," and that most North American urban planning and traffic engineering have collapsed the two into a dangerous, expensive, and ubiquitous hybrid that we might as well call a "stroad". Marohn (a former traffic engineer) differentiates the road/street dichotomy from the heirarchical approach (access/collector/arterial/highway) by focusing principally on function and purpose, rather than traffic volume capacity. The platonic ideal of a street is a place - a platform for building community wealth. A successful street is likely to be filled with all sorts of traffic-slowing activity, be it shopping or dining or kids playing basketball. The traffic engineer's goal here should be safety and universality of access; automotive speed and throughput should not be considered priorities. Some of the world's best streets don't permit any cars at all. The platonic ideal of a road, on the other hand, is a high-speed connection between two places. Funnily enough, these also don't require cars. Some of the best roads in the world are railroads. But it might be best for our purposes to think of a rural Farm-to-Market or interstate highway. Where it gets dicey is when we try to combine these functions by developing our arterial roads into our primary commercial spaces (or designing our primary commercial spaces like highways). We end up with stroads (think all of, but especially western, Westheimer) that are not particularly nice places to be but are also not particularly efficient roads. Thus when a building advertises to businesses by trying to come off as both an appealing place and a place suited to high-speed car traffic, it is exhibiting a stroad mindset. But you're better off reading Marohn's Confessions of a Recovering Engineer than my explanation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 14 hours ago, 004n063 said: It's a portmanteau of street and road. Popularized (to some extent) by Chuck Marohn the Strong Towns organization. Well, now I feel a bit foolish, because I've seen that word a thousand times before, but somehow didn't recognize it this time. Thanks for the clue-by-four! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 The classic stroad picture 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 On 4/18/2023 at 5:57 AM, 004n063 said: Still not in love with the design (wish it fronted Austin or Caroline instead of Webster, for one thing), but man, it is nice to know that it won't just be a half-comstructed mess forever. It's a long narrow, piece of property, an Insurance company owns the property/building facing Caroline St. They had no choice but face it toward Webster St. and I'm glad they put the parking behind the building instead of in front of it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 19 minutes ago, hindesky said: It's a long narrow, piece of property, an Insurance company owns the property/building facing Caroline St. They had no choice but face it toward Webster St. and I'm glad they put the parking behind the building instead of in front of it. I think that's the most important thing. The parking is in the back and pedestrians don't feel like an afterthought for the neighborhood. I actually like the design though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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