SmellyHoustonian
-
Posts
32 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by SmellyHoustonian
-
-
On 7/16/2019 at 4:57 PM, H-Town Man said:
Do the billionaire wives actually use Memorial Park or do they just have expansive lawns to look out on?
The Bayou Club is on the western edge of the park and makes the River Oaks Country Club look inclusive and diverse.
-
3
-
-
1 hour ago, TheSirDingle said:
considering the size of the crown is a decent deal higher than 609 in both pics, it should be able to breach the 800 ft mark even if it's 48 floors. I'm also wondering if the crown will have some type of lighting scheme. But, I'm not gonna lie this tower is gonna make a pretty big change to this part of the skyline.
That crown would have to be huge. 609 Main has 48 floors - will the crown really be that much taller or the height of each floor that much bigger to push it more than 10 or 20 feet above 609 Main?
-
1 hour ago, Triton said:
It's incredible to see how massive parking garages are nowadays in floor to ceiling height compared to their counterparts from decades ago.
Edit: That was the nicest parking lot we had in downtown.
lol Guess they made a quick penny on it though for a few months while it was open.
The parking has not even been complete for a year - it finished right before Harvey - I wonder why they even bothered putting it up given this was in the works so soon. It's also extremely annoying that this sidewalk is out of commission again - it's been nearly 3-4 years since we've been able to reliably use it!
-
Renderings for the tower were posted by the Chronicle
-
1
-
-
Our move-in date to the building has been delayed from May to July. I'm ready to move out of our current space!
-
1
-
-
If the payments + HOA fees were low enough, they would be good investments to purchase and rent out UH students for $800-$1000. 30 Year mortgage on a $120,000 unit (assuming $20k down) is about $500.
-
1
-
-
There is not a lot of business travel between Houston and India. There are a lot of Indians in Houston who travel to India though, but when they fly to visit home, it's a personal trip so usually a cheapest fare Kayak or travel agent ticket is bought rather than full fare business class tickets that United likes to count on for its routes
-
I think a block away in downtown might as well be a mile. This thing is far enough from the residentials.
Then again, Exxon is surrounded on about 7 sides by empty or partially empty blocks. Residential could almost encircle it.
I would however be more concerned with the residential on San Jacinto and St Joseph being so close to the sketchy activity under pierce and south of that.
There are three new residential projects that will be within a block or two of this development (Skyhouse 1 & 2, and Alliance). I don't know, I just don't find courthouses to be helpful to growth.
-
does putting the courthouse there impact the new skyhouse and alliance developments?
I can't imagine it could be good for residential growth in that area
-
Agreed, except I have the same opinion of Turner.
Costello and G. Garcia are it for me. If Janiece Longoria (Port chairwoman) ran, it would pique my interest as well.
-
Knowles has way too many skeletons in the closet: particularly getting his mistress pregnant leading to his marriage ending in disaster.
Any chance State Senator Sylvia Garcia (D-Houston) might run for Mayor ?
She's been elected citywide 3 times as City Controller in 1997, 1999, 2001 and winning 2 countywide elections as County Commissioner, Pct. 2 in 2002 and 2006 before losing reelection in the Tea Party wave of 2010.
Garcia will not run, she has that State Senate seat on lockdown forever now, so why give it up.
Announced Mayor Candidates so far:
Sylvester Turner
Stephen Costello
Oliver Pennington
Chris Bell
Laura Murjillo
Rumored Candidates:
Adrian Garcia
Michael Kubosh
Bill King
Ben Hall
Gilbert Garcia
Anne Clutterbuck
Jack Christie
Sue Lovell
You
Me
everyone else in Houston
Out of announced candidates, I like Costello the best, he's been a good council member, and championed the right issues for me. Plus, I figure having a guy who ran a civil engineering might be the best choice for what I believe Houston's biggest problem is at the moment, the state of the roads.
I'm not sure what Turner wants to do other than just be Mayor, I'm not sure what he brings to the table other than being a power broker in the legislature. The Mayor of Houston is also the City Manager, so I'm not sure I want a wheeler and dealer installing his people as the heads of major city departments
Oliver Pennington is 150 years old and has done nothing that I can recall on council. I can't remember a single issue he has spoken up about, championed, pushed for, advocated for or anything with the recent exception of campaigning against the HERO ordinance (I'm pro HERO, so that doesn't sway me).
Chris Bell has the same issues as Turner for me. I think they're essentially the same candidate.
Out of the potential candidates, I like Gilbert Garcia, he's done well by METRO, and has pretty strong private sector credentials. He's also Parker's guy, and I'm a huge fan of Parker, so would vote for her endorsed candidate if she made one.
-
1
-
-
I'm just going to say I find it hard to believe someone's credentials when they come blasting them all over the place....so if you come on the internet and say you're part of Parker's inner circle, I am hesitant to believe you, mostly because if you were found out, you would be shitcanned in like five seconds for being a leak (politicians love those).
The other people on this forum, are understated, come with information, but don't really let us know how they come by it, but we get the impression from their scope of knowledge that they are in the development or commercial real estate industry.
-
2
-
-
It remains to be seen when the rash of new apartments lowers prices overall. So far it hasn't happened.
Most of the new apartments have not come online yet.
Parts of 2400 West Dallas, Hanover West Gray, Hanover Rice Village are the only ones that have really come online recently.
This summer is when the bulk of the new construction hits.
-
Well, I'm currently in the market, so it's been rather disheartening. I rented a brand new 2/2 in Camden Travis Street in 2010 for the same price as a 1/1 now.
The specials are starting to come back. 2900 West Dallas, the new Finger property by the Whole Foods is offering a free first months rent, but of course that is on a 940 sq ft apartment going for 2000 per month
-
Park Place is minimum 2000 for anything. To get 1200 a month you need to go to older complexes like Calais. New structures are 1300+
-
Opens up for tenants in May 2014.
Prices for a 1 br run about 1600-2000 depending on square footage
-
Can you ban undergrads during finals? and also not finals?
-
1
-
-
Did you have any coffee or other drink there? Just curious cause I may swing by there on Tuesday.
Yeah.
Yesterday I had the Chai Latte, and today I had the regular tea.
Both were really good, and also very reasonably price. It costs probably 40% less than Starbucks.
-
Suggestion for the Nook -- ban those e-cig/Vaporizer things. Undergrads forced me out of the place with those things.
-
The Nook Cafe officially opened today
Im currently posting from the nook.
Gonna camp out here for law school finals.
The Nook Cafe officially opened today
Im currently posting from the nook.
Gonna camp out here for law school finals.
-
The Heights as a whole tends to be very liberal. Do you really think that a liberal is going to vote against Parker, an openly gay woman mayor of Houston? The ordinance had absolutely zero effect on the mayorial election - heck it was not even an issue for her opponents...it impacts such a negligble number of people in this city that to devote time to it would be
Your takeaway is reading way too much into something that is not there.
I agree that in the city as a whole it had little effect, the surprising thing to me is that it had little to no effect in Heights specific precincts that are almost entirely contained within a historic district (with the Woodland Heights, entirely contained), she received between 70 and 90% of the vote in Heights precincts that are affected by the historic district.
My takeaway is that even Heights residents don't care, and the ordinance does not bother them one bit. It's just the people on this thread and maybe a few others that actually care about the ordinance. No one else gives a damn, and y'all are wasting your time on this message board fighting among yourselves and having the same tired hashed out discussions over and over again.
That takeaway seems correct.
-
This is a very interesting map regarding the recent Mayoral election. I would assume the historic district drama would've affected Parker more negatively, but she still received between 70-90% of the vote in the Heights.
Maybe the HD pushed her total from 85% (like it was in Montrose) to 70%, but that's it.
My takeaway is that no one really cares about this issue except the four of you that post on this thread attacking each other (or ganging up on the one pro preservation person)
-
Marlene Gafrick resigned as planning director for the COH.
Get your ducks in order, and lobby for a candidate to replace her that represents your views on the historic district.
-
What I wouldn't give to be able to de-annex the Heights from the City. Y'all get so worked up over the most ridiculous stuff.
lol Guess they made a quick penny on it though for a few months while it was open.
TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
in Traffic and Transportation
Posted
This is a very stupid project to spend $350MM to fix a problem that occurs once every few years for 12 hours or so. Not to mention they are not going to do this in coordination with their other planned elevated managed lanes project and the METRO inner Katy BRT project.
This along with 45 will manage to screw over the one good commuter bike path in the City for a full a decade (MKT trail from the Heights to Downtown).