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  1. kbates2
    It is definitely time for Hanover to move into downtown.
  2. kbates2
    That garage on the left is the bane of my existence. Just reminding everyone.
  3. kbates2
    Man I hope not.
  4. kbates2
    Man that looks so good.
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    Huge
  6. kbates2
    Better than Aris?
  7. kbates2
    I've been waiting to hear what people thought of the stone as it was going up. I know the finished product is still to come and may look better but thus far, the stone is worse than I expected.
  8. kbates2
    Urban H‑E‑B should go by market square area, lots of residents there.
  9. kbates2
    This is like 3 blocks from Phoenicia.
  10. kbates2
    They just both accepted new positions with other real estate companies. I don't think it should have too much of an effect on this project.
  11. kbates2
    I always feel like the Union Station portion of Minute Maid is underutilized for such a cool space.
  12. kbates2
    I hear it called Bellaire sometimes. Doesn’t make any sense since they are just naming it after a Street and a Bellaire already exists. Most of the people I’ve talked to don’t know there is a Bellaire.
  13. kbates2
    I think that it’s been abandoned for many years. Used to be a club.
  14. kbates2
    I think similar to Greenstreet - the success of the project in the near-term, and thereby the chances of those reserved parking lots getting the future towers, is somewhat predicated on having a built-in market which the towers could provide. I'm still really excited about the project but the towers would just make it cooler and more likely to succeed.
  15. kbates2
    I saw people are already tagging the new colorful support columns.
  16. kbates2
    Yeah, it's looking amazing so far.
  17. kbates2
    I heard this a while back, like the first week of the shutdown. I loved the place and was a regular but I think there was always a problem with identity here. As honeymoon it looked like a classic cafe but they shut food down fairly early and tried to operate as a bar at night. The cafe feel just wasn’t conducive. When they rebranded to boomtown, they made it even less like a bar, shut down food earlier then still tried for evening crowds. It just never worked after about 2:00 each day. I think a more rounded design or a commitment to being either a cafe or a coffee shop or restaurant or bar would have made this more successful. I’ll miss it.
  18. kbates2
    Big issue right now is the massive homeless presence on the corner next to this building. Hopefully this helps with it. Got my renovation projects wrong, I was thinking this was the building next to the Hines Spiritual Center.
  19. kbates2
    Have we heard of its fate now that it is abandoned?
  20. kbates2
    I don’t hate the Arabella. I loved the initial renderings and think that the finished product has some ok features and some crap features. It isn’t bad overall but it is also far from good. I had hopes that it could be a beautiful building but then I remembered that Randall Davis was building it and it’s about as good as we could have hoped for from him.
  21. kbates2
    Toeflop is trying to catch Rowdy in terms of quantity. He at least appears to have a slight artistic bone in his body but volume taggers are idiots regardless if they can't take time to make real art.
  22. kbates2
    They don't spend that much on their athletic facilities.
  23. kbates2
    Hopefully they can fix the name to "Coog's".
  24. kbates2
    Still very excited for this building and hoping that this part looks ok but the first signs of it look pretty bad.
  25. kbates2
    They need to fix the broken path downtown by the old Spaghetti Warehouse. It collapsed during Harvey and hasn’t seen any love.
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