houstonsemipro Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 White tigers move into Downtown Aquarium10:14 AM CST on Wednesday, December 1, 2004From 11 News Staff Reports HOUSTON -- The Downtown Aquarium is now home to four white tigers. They're part of a new exhibit called White Tigers of the Maharaja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Next: YAKS.I think Tillman has finally lost it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new major on the block Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Hey alot of people buy in to that sort of stuff so it couldn't be that bad. It just might bring more citizens in to downtown and shop, eat, and help business. I think though that even Tilman has his limits of what he might bring in. Gazzels maybe, but yaks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pineda Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Tilman is the P.T. Barnum of the restaurant business. Why, just this year he was honored as Man of the Year by the Greater Houston Restaurant Association! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 White tigers move into Downtown Aquarium10:14 AM CST on Wednesday, December 1, 2004The Downtown Aquarium is holding a contest to name the baby tiger, which was born on October 4. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I vote we name it Bill. Bill White. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 *holds head in hands*Im just waiting for the leech exhibit to open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Well since the city likes to name things after Bush, I say we name it "George W. Bush Jr." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmancuso Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 the only issue i have them being there is space, they're gonna be cooped up in a relatively small area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 I agree with Mancuso. If there's room enough for the tigers to "breathe," so to speak, then I'm fine with everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 only in houston. it does add an interesting dimension to the growing list of downtown "residents". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 only in houstonNo, they have already done this in the Denver location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 White tigers I can go along with. It Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw2ntyse7en Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Considering Tillman spent some time at UH, I would like to see him bring Shasta back to the UH Campus.That was cool.Or at least let Shasta live DT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pineda Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Local & StateProtests aside, aquarium introduces more wildlife to downtown night lifeFertitta predicts the 4 white tigers will make a splashBy LOUIS B. PARKS, Houston ChronicleTALE OF THE TIGERS Downtown Aquarium's white Bengal tigers include two females and two males that will appear in the new exhibit in pairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 White tigers I can go along with. It’s the gaudy, ostentatious blue lights that make me wanna puke! I can’t believe the City allows them!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I've thought the same thing. It just doesn't look appropriate for Downtown. And how about the ferriswheel? What's next, a juggling clown riding a unicycle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Well, he could always set Buffalo Bayou on fire every night. That oughta draw attention to his place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Well, he could always set Buffalo Bayou on fire every night. That oughta draw attention to his place. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ......that cracked me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pineda Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 interesting background story about the Aquarium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Otto Mation) Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Bill Jacomet has added a photo to the pool: Click here to view this photo at the HAIF Photo Pool on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post largeTEXAS Posted August 28, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) This has probably been mentioned, but ran across this the otha' day: I don't know much about the project, just saw it. Looks like they're trying to expand the world's finest under-freeway amusement park! Edited August 28, 2015 by largeTEXAS 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 ^^^ i have not heard anything about this interesting proposition thus far. please largeTEXAS, by all means elaborate further.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I don't understand what I am looking at here... Are they removing Preston? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largeTEXAS Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) . Edited August 28, 2015 by largeTEXAS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 That seems like a disappointment. I have always hoped for an Aquarium expansion, but wanted less theme park, more aquarium.. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 That seems like a disappointment. I have always hoped for an Aquarium expansion, but wanted less theme park, more aquarium..Houston needs a real Aquarium like the one in Atlanta. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 9, 2019 by Timoric 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adr Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 N2IT. Step up your game, post office! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Think of the possibilities post I-45 re-route. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Think of the possibilities post I-45 re-route.Yes they accumulate every traveling circus ride under the sun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pragmatist Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Now all they need is a Gravitron, and Mr. Fertitta's dream will be complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Some of you sound like curmudgeons. Ease up. Children love this place. I know it looks out of place but so do many of other things in our haphazard and dynamic city. There are few places for the little ones in the DT. Watching the children enjoy themselves adds to the downtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) Some of you sound like curmudgeons. Ease up. Children love this place. I know it looks out of place but so do many of other things in our haphazard and dynamic city. There are few places for the little ones in the DT. Watching the children enjoy themselves adds to the downtown. I, for one, am all for it, and am serious about wondering what would come post-45 downtown. You see, people embrace the whole “Keep Austin Weird” thing, which is all well and good, but they just have a bunch of bad bands and pot smokers, which has really ceased to be anything but marketable commoditized “cool”. Authentic weirdness requires stuff like interstate-side Ferris wheels and 80’s “Hypermarkets” that become Chinatown. Fertita is a local treasure in an eccentric rich uncle kind of way and people do love his stuff. It’s all good clean fun, if a bit gaudy. Beats pretention 10 times out of 10. Edited August 28, 2015 by Nate99 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I don't understand what I am looking at here... Are they removing Preston? they better not be.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Some of you sound like curmudgeons. Ease up. Children love this place. I know it looks out of place but so do many of other things in our haphazard and dynamic city. There are few places for the little ones in the DT. Watching the children enjoy themselves adds to the downtown.The rendering threw me off, as they look like identical rides to what they already have. I don't expect them to build anything other than kiddie rides, but hopefully something different from what they already have. It's a shame the aquarium is mostly restaurant space. It gives it more of a carnival feel, like a money vacuum, rather then something educational. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 they better not be....Appears they have for this expansion to be viable... is that part of the future I-45 construction or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 It looks like where the swinging pirate ship boat is replaces Preston. There goes one of my return routes from late night Sonic runs... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrow Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 If they're going to remove this section of Preston Street, they may as well also remove the section up until Smith Street--it wouldn't really serve a purpose. Even better, don't remove the Preston Street bridge itself, keep the bridge structure, make modifications and dress it up to create the pedestrian bridge that is in the Theater District master plan between Preston and Prairie and save a few dollars. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 "I don't know much about the project, just saw it. Looks like they're trying to expand the world's finest under-freeway amusement park!" omg that description made me laugh out loud!!! thanks! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I would have expected performing dolphins. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Nope that's too much like a real aquarium. This is an aquarium with a tiger - never forget 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intencity77 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Unless it's a full fledged theme park (which I realize there isn't any space for one near downtown), then it's going to be lame. Not to mention, this looks cheap, too kiddish and out of place near our high density downtown. It's as if Fertitta is trying to recreate his Boardwalk/Pleasure Pier on a smaller scale in downtown Houston and that style development looks just plain wrong in an urban setting. IMO, if a developer is trying to attract a family/child demographic to their downtown attraction at least try to be aesthetically conscious of your urban surroundings in your development! Discovery Green is a great example of doing just that and tastefully. I guess we can't expect much change from Fertitta's usual cheesy projects. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 comes to downtown houston.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Actually, what I like about this concept is it brings more families downtown, diversifying the area. Although it may not draw families to LIVE downtown, at least there be some in the vicinity. I don't want a downtown made just for the childless. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Actually, what I like about this concept is it brings more families downtown, diversifying the area. Although it may not draw families to LIVE downtown, at least there be some in the vicinity. I don't want a downtown made just for the childless.I don't want to see, hear, or smell children. They belong in the suburbs. Unless they are well behaved. Which 99% of the time they are not. We need a wall. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Well, I guess this is trying to fill a void in Houston. Agree that we could use a real aquarium--a draw like that could be an anchor to revitalize and develop the KBR site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregpet Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I vote for getting rid of Preston between Bagby & Franklin....Pretty much duplicates Franklin and we could get rid of a bunch of concrete (street & bridge). Bring a little more green to downtown (enlarge Sesquicentennial park). And this could get done much quicker than the 45 re-route which is a really long way off (if they even approve)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 There also going to be a bunch of people living on Preston, so access for them might be a good idea to keep open Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I don't like the idea embodied in this rendering. It looks like schlock to me --- Disney for Dwarfs. As the 4th largest city in the country, Houston CAN do better, IMO. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I think we finally found something HAIF likes less than a surface lot 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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