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7 hours ago, texas911 said:

Wow! Bellaire is underserved for retail. Hopefully this will give options for one of Houston's richest zip codes.

“While this project is not a real development at this time, our study shows how it is possible to create a vibrant mixed use development of office, retail, restaurants, and grocery in the heart of Bellaire. ”

That are unnecessarily huge and take up half of the sidewalk.

Drift Bar opens on W 20th in the Heights tomorrow, 01/10/20.  Huge sports bar with a ton of massive TVs.

2 hours ago, rechlin said:

The condition of the original façade looks better than I feared but it's still far worse than the Main Street Food Store building at 1101 Main, which was reportedly already hard to justify restoring.  It appears the columns between the windowed sections were totally destroyed.  But maybe we'll get lucky -- I'd love to see that 1929 façade back.

 
I assume that it could just be hard to restore on a convenience store budget.

It is 5:52 and my ParkMobile app will only allow me to pay for a max of 8 minutes.  I think the rules are unchanged.

It would make sense for him to make the New Hope property additional premium parking but I think that this site is much more likely to be in his ballpark village plan.

Yeah this sucks. Conservatory is great as is in its current space.  Big loss for downtown.

Former Houston Press building, demolished earlier this year.

Looks like we should see how this looks underneath soon, they are removing the panels.

https://imgur.com/gallery/X6fzahX

(Can't figure out how to get the photo in the post)

I tried to walk there to watch a World Series game and they were closed - so at least a couple of months.

But your spices from Phoenicia.  They grind them in house so they cost as much as fiesta (cheap) but they are super potent.

Any idea what their current proposed start date is?

But it’s not just those cities.  Denver has a great walkable downtown. As does Seattle.  Austin is getting there.  We just need better developers.  We get hideous automated parking garages while other cities get great walkable developments.

Yeah this is an embarrassment to Gensler. 

If that happened it would be the most houston thing ever.  

Yeah this sucks.

Five Hobos peed?

11 hours ago, BeerNut said:

Nearly 27% of residents had their rent increase in the last 12 months, according to survey results. 

 

I would have expected 100%.  Inflation adjustments?

1 hour ago, cougarpad said:

Still trying to figure out how much of the skyline this new tower is going to block from Market Square's sky deck and pool. Would suck to have paid rent for the amenities in Market Square including the scenery to now have it obstructed. 

Lucky for them it's rent and not mortgage and if you live downtown, you have to know that can happen.  

Finn does have the worst food of all of the downtown halls IMO.  They could retool quite a bit.  I liked Mala but they are gone right?  Yong is good.  

I walked by it yesterday and there were people eating inside and dish society cooking that I could see from the sidewalk.

1 hour ago, Houston19514 said:

How deep has the water gotten on that property during our worst floods?

I would assume fairly deep.  That should change when the white oak bypass is complete but they would need to plan for that contingency either way I would think.

3 hours ago, CREguy13 said:

It looks like this site closed this month and was sold to Woodbranch - the developer of Market Square Tower.  I would not be upset if there was another MST quality project here...

I assume that they haven't sold MST yet? That worries me slightly that they won't go very tall to preserve MST views.  That said, their MST investment (and this land investment) would both benefit from development here, so I wonder if they decide to go short to protect MST or just go tall as most views are going away with the Preston anyway.

El Real did have the best cheese enchiladas in the city.  It will be missed.

It's not their customers as much as their loiterers.  If a liquor store opens - cool - if it has customers who get hammered outside and pass out and yell at other customers/pedestrians - not cool.  This store tends to be closer to the latter in my example.