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  1. H-Town Man
    I get so tired of this attitude people have on here that people's opinions are worthless just because they're not a real estate developer with the financial power to affect things. Someone needs to start a Houston Development Cheerleading Forum so that all the sunshine pumpers have a place of their own, and the people who want to sometimes voice criticism and disagreement can stay on HAIF.
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    If it is my criticism of the garage you're responding to, it doesn't seem like you read it carefully. I have no problem with them reusing the existing garage. What I have a problem with is them devoting the frontage along Milam Street that isn't already taken up by the garage to what appears to be a long entrance to the garage from Preston Street. The building itself should be in that space, and it should have ground floor retail on the side fronting Milam Street/Market Square. There are many other ways for cars to get into the garage. I understand that the main façade will have to face Preston since the site is too narrow otherwise, but at least part of the building itself - not a covered driveway - should be on Market Square.
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    Hate to be a stick in the mud, but there's really no excuse for using the Market Square/Milam Street frontage as nothing other than a cloistered driveway for cars to get to the Kim Son garage. Put the building on Milam Street and put some ground floor retail facing the square. There are other ways to access that garage.
  4. H-Town Man
    So they didn't like Memorial or they didn't like the drive in from the airport? Can't imagine someone thinking this is the "armpit of Texas" after seeing Memorial, let alone River Oaks. And can't imagine anyone picking the beige neighborhoods of Dallas over the Memorial area - maybe the Park Cities which is basically a draw, but not Preston Hollow and certainly not anything else.
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    I don't like it either but that's how the rest of the state sees us.
  6. H-Town Man
    Where is that water tower on the left? I like it. Of course, as soon as I find something old-school like that that I like, it gets torn down.
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    The Woodlands is also one of the only parts of Houston (if not the only part) to escape the "Houston image" for out-of-towners, especially around the state. In Dallas, when you say "Houston," people say "Ewww! Gross!" But then when you mention The Woodlands, they're like "Oh yeah... yeah, the Woodlands is kind of nice."
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    Seems strange that Baker Hughes would attach itself to the teet of one oil major rather than showing equal affinity to all of them. Can anyone who understands the oil business explain that?
  9. H-Town Man
    Really hope Shell doesn't follow these other companies to the boondocks.
  10. H-Town Man
    Cough, every parking lot in the historic district downtown.
  11. H-Town Man
    I once watched a façade restoration in Chicago that took several months... all the stone pieces were taken down, worked on, then put back up. Glacial process.
  12. H-Town Man
    Like Brian says, I think the future of TMC is to the south, not the north. Land values in Midtown are likely too high for hospitals. And I think this is for the best. Do we want Midtown overwhelmed with traffic? I don't even think office buildings are good for the neighborhood - all the commuters going downtown are bad enough. I'm hoping for residential with walkable streets. I know people want to see skylines connect, but imagine if lower Manhattan's skyline connected with Midtown Manhattan - you wouldn't have Greenwich Village or all those great neighborhoods in between, it would just be glass and concrete. No thanks.
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    The prisons look decent enough from outside, and it's not like they let the prisoners out for recess. I see no reason why they can't hold the land on either side of the new canal and sell it off to restaurants. Let the thing take off, and in 20 years, the land under the prisons becomes a huge redevelopment site, with the county making more than enough on it to rebuild elsewhere.
  14. H-Town Man
    "Make no small plans - they have not the power to stir men's blood." - guy who designed 18 miles of Chicago lakefront park When you think about it, the stigma of a prison is probably the only thing that could've made land values cheap enough for this to be possible.
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    That is phenomenal. They will need to move the Metro bus barn if so. The 2003 (?) bayou master plan showed some exciting views of this stretch as a terraced waterway lined with restaurants. I hope the existing powers can team up to do this right, it's a unique opportunity.
  16. H-Town Man
    One thing about Dallas - ground floor retail all over the place in Uptown. Houston - still trying to split the atom.
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    It's not as svelte as the others. A little disappointing, since the BoA tower in Atlanta is the tallest outside New York or Chicago with only 1.2 million sf. The US Bank Tower in LA, "tallest west of the Mississippi," is only 1.3 million sf. It seems Chevron would rather have a skybumper than a skyscraper.
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    Ok thanks. Very nice building, but there should be an ordinance against curb cuts on a signature street like Texas, let alone access drives.
  19. H-Town Man
    Yes, but some are removed for the entrance drive.
  20. H-Town Man
    This might be the most architecturally distinguished of the new downtown residential buildings, although Hines Market Square certainly wins on the lower floors.
  21. H-Town Man
    I wonder if we are looking at Prairie and Austin or Texas and La Branch? If Texas and La Branch, those are significant shade trees on the Texas side that would be lost so they can have a suburban-style entrance drive. If Prairie and Austin, I just hope they don't leave a dull façade on Texas.
  22. H-Town Man
    Oh good gawd, you're right, and leaving an apparently pointless space fronting the park does not look good.
  23. H-Town Man
    Great link. I LOVE that Dallas was bigger than Austria, those people are arrogant over there, especially the closer you are to Vienna. I have no problems with Poland or Slovakia, but good for Houston and SA.
  24. H-Town Man
    Yeah you're right, there's 4.5 floors missing here, the link shows a base so there's hope.
  25. H-Town Man
    Any ground floor retail? Otherwise it would look fine on Post Oak Blvd.
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