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Look at this one they built in Italy. I like it 100% better. Its more class and less..... less...... "Mexico Style."

Have you actually seen the real thing (the Houston one)? I will note that I have not seen it recently, but it seems odd that we are judging it based on renderings when I believe it is nearing completion.

I thought the Turnberry proposal had gone by the wayside considering how long it has been with no news. But I guess they have just been waiting for the city's approval.

arghh...well my browser closed on me, so I will be more brief with this reply.

Sharpstown Mall-Crappy, Outdated, Dangerous, Dirty, etc.

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Meyerland Mall-is no more...

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Yeah, we got some nice malls here, like the galleria and memorial city, and im not trying to say shopping in houston sucks or anything, but its too bad we have all these blighted albatrosses in the city. I think Sharpstown could be saved like Memorial City if there is uber security, but for the rest i think they are toast.

I am not sure why Sharpstown would need "uber security" as you state. Have you ever been there? While it is not exactly a good mall in my opinion, unless you happen to be looking for sneakers (last time I walked through there seemed to be an abundance), I would not call it dangerous.

Also mentioning Meyerland is somewhat of a fallacy, especially when you later refer to the above listed malls as "blighted albatrosses". While it is true that as a mall it is nonexistent, its conversion has turned it into a very successful shopping area. On the whole though, I agree with your statement that Houston built too many malls.

Also, those white towers right behind the pavilions...I dont remember those. I thought the only thing of that magnitude in that area is Houston House Apatments.

Maybe my bearings are all wrong here.

The white building you see is 1301 Fannin. Assuming that is the one you are speaking of.

Also I just scanned through the last couple pages, but has groundbreaking occured? Or was that only for the House of Blues?

WIth the talk of a Galleria expansion, where would they build? I'm no visionary, so there may be a way around it, but it seems the Galleria is getting pretty landlocked nowadays.

Well there is a lot next to the waterwall. And there is the chance that church may sell (though I doubt it)

Then there is the parking lot north of galleria 1. Plus the parking North of Dillards. Perhaps a deal could be made where a larger parking garage is built for Dillards and they sell the rest of their parking. Then there are always the few strip malls near it.

Or they could just tear down the transco and expand to the east

Interesting ideas, but I think parking is in too short supply around the area to give up spaces for a plaza. I wouldn't be surprised if the Macy's location ends up converted into a parking garage.

There isn't much parking in front of Dillard's. Most is in the garage to the south and the surface lot to the north.

Way off topic- but two things I think would be cool. First, The Dillards store should be converted into a concert hall/theater of some sort. Though I had hope that the land at Yorktown/Westheimer would have been perfect for a concert hall/theater. Not necessarily the AD Players. In conjunction to converting Dillards, it's front parking lot could be a plaza/square. Of course- the gas station and exotic boutique would have to go and a decorative "sound barrier" erected.

And secondly, The front parking lot-Westheimer/Post Oak- of the Galleria also should be turned into a plaza/square.

How do you plan on kicking Dillards out of their building? Does anyone know if that would be structurally feasible? Since you would be knocking out all of the floors. Interesting idea though.

I think it was a lame attempt to be funny. We need better comedians on here.

Yeah,

I thought he was serious at first with the target/walmart

Are all of the above high-rise apartment, or are some mid-rise?

The lease or the condo?

Well the first line of the lease ones are mostly high rises, most of the rest are mid rises.

Good news

thanks largetexas.

^lol at your "typo".

you know semipro, alot of people said the same thing about the Pavilions project in downtown Denver. Many sad and believed it would never happen. But look what happened? It did. The exact same thing is happening in downtown Houston right now that was happening in Denver a while back (At the end of the 90's). Houston is more like a downtown Denver in the making right now.

Good point scarface, people act like only in Houston projects take a while, are cancelled, or have speculation about them.

EDIT: Oh and welcome to page 15!

If there's no movement between now and next spring, don't be surprised, cause I told y'all so. Then you going to see how good Semi really is.

Well it is a fifty-fifty chance to get it right? Even guessing is bound to get a few.

But at the same time, I'm rooting for a Galleria 6 to come up.

What about Galleria 5?

But on topic (kind of), does anyone know the odds of Macy's becoming a residential tower?

Ok, here it is.

woot 1000 posts

Just wait until his picture hosting service comes back up.

I wasn't saying I liked it, I was saying I was mad because it was that type of parking qand not parallel.

It sounded like you disliked parallel parking because you said "Now this is how I expect Rice Village to look".

He tells me that his family drives down to Houston's Galleria for Xmas shopping, and that his family has been doing so since the early part of the last century.

He has been shopping in the galleria area sice the early 1900's?

Yeah its gone for me also. But I am sure largeTEXAS will put it back up next time he gets on.

I wonder when Ziegler Cooper is going to put it on their website?

Keep dreaming

Now this is how I expect Rice Village to look! Look a little closer and you can see that it doesn't have parrallel parking it has front in parking.

Well the actual development doesn't (well on the left it looks like there is a car, but I can't tell if it is parked or mowing down pedestrians). Isn't that how some of the parking is now. Like on the south side of university.

Nice looking project. Do you know which streets it is at?

Why are you so pessimistic whenever you pop up on the forums now? What happened to your good old "this should have been built downtown".

BTW just because you think a rendering is wrong does not make a project a hoax.

Probibly figured that since there were 4 already, would it hurt to just have 3?

And while were Nit-pickin', why are there skyscrapers on the right in the far off distance? It looks like a Downtown.

It seems like they just forgot which way they were oriented.

EDIT: On second thought, the building on the left looks like the one right off 59 in greenway. But the rest seem to tall.

Was it stopped or just cut back? It turned out it was going to cost something like twice the original estimate.

I am pretty sure I read that it had been cut back, and now it has been completely cancelled. I may look for some more info tomorrow.

If they could just keep them up and clean them now and then, I think you'd hear less people gripe about them.

I don't know about that, just listen to what people are saying about something that will get rid of a surface parking lot and add street level retail.