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    Went last night, it is pretty great. It is VERY different from Conservatory and I think that they will complement each other if anything.
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    What a joke.
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    I guess maybe "quite a bit" was aggressive. The base looks altered as well as the North facing facade. The crown looks a bit shorter and the cut-out on the south-side looks less steep. I still like the rendering a lot.
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    Yeah looks like this has been value engineered down quite a bit.
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    I can’t believe that we haven’t seen any recent condo conversions. Seems like this would be a pretty great location.
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    Often times they don't even include the street name. "Where are you going?" "6141"
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    For me, Karbach is the worst over-hopped offender. Going to their brewery will leave your hair and clothes smelling like hops for the rest of the day. Now that they are also not a real independent craft brewery, it has only made the offense seem greater.
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    So GMac only shops. If we are comparing Uptown to Downtown, Uptown only really wins on shopping.
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    Uptown has a long uphill battle to catch up as there is almost no walkability. Downtown hands down.
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    Yep, Capitol Tower is the sliver just to the left of Chase.
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    Yeah I think we have more parking than any downtown that I have ever seen. I think the addition of new parking garages is a negative and just shows poor use of our current space.
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    That got me pretty amped.
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    That would be huge.
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    Los Tios just for the nostalgia for me.
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    It was the northeast corner that came down the slowest. If I remember correctly, it was due to a problem during the implosion. This corner held up to the implosion and posed a safety risk thus requiring the wrecking ball. As downtown residency was still below 4K, they did everything after business hours.
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    They imploded part of the Houston Club but took the rest down slowly with a wrecking ball starting at like 9 pm each night.
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    Amy, did you live in that unit during the demolition of the Houston Club? They took that building down with a wrecking ball and would run into the am hours. I was in unit 713 at the time and pretty close to where it appears your unit is. With white noise machines you can cover a lot of it up.
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    Downtown has tons of hobos and can be trashy. Uptown is boring with little life. I would choose the lively area over the dead.
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    Don’t forget the large open block along Main at Prarie. The International Tower is also far from certain and that block could support grocery.
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    Very solid post. My thought is not that we are down in the dumps though, I am just wondering if Austin’s 13k residents is close to a critical mass that we can shoot for in terms of reaching a level of recreational downtown to where it feels like a completely different place.
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    So I spent the day in downtown Austin last weekend. It was super packed and felt like a different city than it did even 3 or 4 years ago. It was prior to pride festival which likely helped but either way, they are still WAY ahead of us. I think that they have about 5,000 more people living downtown and that they are at about 13k. I wonder as we reach that number in the future if that alone will drive the type of retail development that Austin has here.
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    With those two, I don’t know that there is too much of a difference. Both are in the same location and winners. I am not sure of the amenity difference so it may just be a price question.
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    At least on the scale needed to be used by the masses.
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    True full driverless cars are just very far out at this point.
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    I think Trammell Crow’s tower is still not proposed to start until Q1 2019.
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