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Oh, Totally.   If you could figure a way out a way to introduce transit lanes and keep two main lanes of traffic, that'd be ideal.  In fact, I'd love to see Post Oak style BRT from NRG Park all the way up Kirby, to Allen Parkway and into Downtown.    

J_c, All it takes is driving up or down Kirby, at almost any time during the day, to realize that it is a very busy street, through a very commercial stretch, which includes a major feeway intersection right in the middle of zone we are talking about, to realize that the street doesn't need a road diet.  The volume of traffic on Lower Westheimer or 11th, doesn't even closely compare.   Traffic data isn't required.  

It'd be a nightmare.  

^^  Past the 610 bridge and into the turning basin, Yes.  That is as far as she could go, without radical changes to the bayou (widen, deepen, straighten) and all the bridges (remove and rebuild) that cross it.   

They did the same for the trail head (Building F) at East River.  It sat for a couple months then it was leveled off. 

https://spacecenter.org/space-center-houston-reimagines-itself-with-a-bold-new-vision-turns-30-and-launches-new-brand/

^^ THANK YOU! 

Goofy,

Thanks for your work, but you do come off as flip, without acknowledging the many, many generations who fought, protested, took great risks and even died for future generations of gay people. The work is still not done, but we are Light Years ahead of where we were just a couple of decades ago. 
Sorry that you were never able to connect with the community that you sought, but I still find the community that I found supportive, entertaining and important to me.  No, the bars are not the whole community, but they are an important part, so when you say destroy it and replace it, it definitely comes access as something only “thankless child” would say.  

I’ll be looking forward to gathering with new and old members of the community, out at the bars, next Sunday, as I often do. Your, welcome to join. 

That's a shame.   That grove of cypress trees was lovely.   Maybe, at least, it'll open up the Station Lobby again.   

All a result of a good team.   :-)

The Laura is the apartment part of Phase one. It’s named after a riverboat that used to run between Galveston and Houston…which makes it a good name rather than an awful one. 

Quaint...in a lunar surface kind of way.  

Bookey, If you look at the photo above your post, you'll find the answer to your question.   Of course the school took flooding in account when they designed these buildings. 

This is that Building, that if we ever were to have an earthquake, it would be the one that would tilt right over, in one piece, and land on all the cars parked underneath.   

Yesterday was Sweet!

It wouldn't be present thinking, if it did not offer enough parking spaces for the tenants and users of the development. 

So, it definitely was a mistake to leave the trolleys where they were when they got flooded.  Had they been on the seawall, where there are tracks they would not have been flooded, in the case of Hurricane Ike.   I have been told that in the event of a Major Hurricane, where a significant storm surge is anticipated, this where they will be taken.  That's a reasonable plan.  The Seawall has never been overtopped.  Certainly the trolley's could sustain some damages from wind, rain & Spray, but nothing as extreme as immersion.   Certainly, if there is a major storm with a significant surge forecasted, it would not take a herculean effort to find 4x suitable lowboy trailers to move them off the island.  This region of the country has more heavy haul equipment, and talent, available then anywhere else.   

The trolleys can be moved off the island the same way that they were delivered…on flatbed trailers, over the road.  

Actually, the aerial photo is very recent (Note the construction of the Par3 Golf Course, Townhouses north of Clinton, East River construction lay-down areas).  Just the 3D models of the old warehouses on the site old.  

Sounds like the two "River Pavilions" / Restaurant spaces South of The Laura.

A second crawler crane has been set up, more towards the center of the Phase one.  I figure that this crane will be used for the other/commercial parking structure.  It will be needed for all the other structures aside from the residents of The Laura.   Hindesky, you are probably correct about the bridge, although it seems a bit early for it.  

How the hotel will be run and staffed, including the security component, of which there certainly will be one, is the business of the Hotel Manager and management company.  To ask the developer just how that will be handled is a bit premature.  I am sure your concerns were noted...but asking him to comment or commit to what will be done, is premature...don't you think?  If there is a need for some enhanced security measures I am sure that they will be address then.   It is the business of the hotel to ensure that their guests are safe.   

Oishi on Richmond, is a great option for the money...if you are willing to wait for a table.   It's as much a cult as it is affordable sushi.    

SE Corner of Fannin & Holcombe, where the Prudential Building was.    

8 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

IIRC, there WAS a Mattress Firm here... and across the street, and on the next block.... and a half mile away

Then Hanover built a mattress shaped building down the street, with mattress shaped windows and named it the The Hanover Mattrose, as a permanent reminder.   

I already plan to be delayed when I use this intersection (daily).  This is wonderful news.  Thanks.