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  1. shasta
    Mexican Sugar is EXACTLY the type tenant they need to create synergy! Hopefully, Georgia James and Pastore will vacate soon and they can replace them with a tenant that finds a create way to design their lease space, like MS
  2. shasta
    We first heard about this project FIVE YEARS AGO and have yet to hear anything substantial about it and no renderings or presentations to speak of. During that 5 year span, the Astros have been to the ALCS FIVE times and the World Series THREE times and the stadium has been packed and has been one of the most successful/profitable franchises in the MLB yet still .....crickets!!! Is Crane waiting for the Astros to stink before announcing this project ensuring it won't get the foot traffic to be successful.......or as successful as it could be TODAY? We are seriously in competition with Dallas ...and now Austin to be the most vibrant exciting city in the Texas Triangle. We need developers to STEP UP...not down!
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    Why haven't they released the master plan/ renderings for this yet? Shouldn't this be a huge marketing event for the Astros- something they would want to celebrate wit their millions of fans? Why are they keeping it secret?
  4. shasta
    WOO HOO! THEY ARE NO LONGER MEMBERS OF THE BIG 12. THEY ARE THE SEC'S PROBLEM NOW!
  5. shasta
    It just doesn't make sense because GID spent years working on the master plan. They hired some of the best planners and architects around the nation to make this a jewel project ...they even built an office across the street to proudly display their vision.....yet FOR WHATEVER REASON they scrapped their masterpiece, turned the master plan into amateur hour, value engineered the buildings into the cheapest look imaginable, had no clue how to cater their tenant spaces for restaurants and then choose NOT to attract tenants. How long has this been open and how many boarded storefronts do we STILL have? No excuses... RIVER OAKS IS YOUR CATCHMENT AREA- the richest urban neighborhood in the state of Texas! Did City Centre have this much trouble? What about the River Oaks District? What about the urban centers up Kirby? Build something urban...a coffee shop...a casual restaurant with patio space...something! Instead they build a cheap version of Georgia James yet nothing about thr facade screams "nice inviting restaurant". You enter the restaurant through a mouse hole! A new owner and a new architect/planner can still save this development but it will take re-imagining it to be on par with Hanover. No...this isn't hindsight...we were all predicting this fate AS IT WAS HAPPENING!
  6. shasta
    they had to...they are a G5 conference not a Power Conference which means they can't land the established programs that are "move in ready" They had to go after growth stocks in desirable markets. The Houston market was already proven with UH but getting Rice to UH's level is going to be the challenge. I can tell you the trough urinals in the Men's restrooms are 50 years old and disgusting. Their stadium need MAJOR renovations or a wrecking ball.
  7. shasta
    They CHOOSE to take Houston's spot in the AAC when UH got the bump up to the Big 12. The AAC isn't going to let Rice ignore Athletics anymore. They are going to pressure them to improve many aspects...including facilities.
  8. shasta
    They can still save this development it will jut require a new owner to improve the mistakes made by GID. They went cheap with every aspect and every single detail of the development which is mind blowing because I know , for a fact, the previous designs cared a whole lot about the details as, at that time, this was one of the premiere projected projects in their portfolio. Again, I know for a fact, that many details were discussed and in the built version..those same details were IGNORED. How do you build a development set around restaurant tenants yet provide no interaction between the restaurant and your development? How do you build an apartment building and totally forget to raise the parapet to cover the roof top condenser units? How do have a un-leased tenant spaces, despite starting this project IN 2007?? I'm guessing what happened is that the crash happened in 2009-2010, they scrapped this project as a HIGH PROFILE project, and then revisited it as a cheap quick profit project. before they involved a number of a architecture firms, a master plan by noted planners, and paid attention to EVERY DETAIL. NOW....Urban Vomit! They do have contact information listed if you want to inquire about the status of the current block or th efuture phases of this project:
  9. shasta
    I'm hoping they take over the Kroger's site on West Gray and build a urban mixed use HEB on that lot like the one on Washington.
  10. shasta
    Isn't there a HEB just down the street?
  11. shasta
    TOWER OF TERROR!
  12. shasta
    With the current high % office vacancy rates in Houston, and in Texas, we aren't getting a tall office tower anytime soon. News of the RO breaking ground next month, with their office tower, was surprising but then again, they already had an anchor tenant secured.
  13. shasta
    so no mid rise residential? Now it will be a 2 story retail?
  14. shasta
    I placed a call to one of the contacts listed on Regent Square's website asking about renderings for the future blocks and I was told: There are none, but they will be similar to what is constructed on the finished block, and not the 2009 renderings, and that there are NO IMMEDIATE PLANS to start construction on the new phase. I also cleaned up the development map, for that area, for projects that are 'Under Construction' or 'On The Boards'. I'm anticipating, that at some point (when- nobody, knows) the Post Office site and he Kroger's site will be in play. Imagine HEB building a large mixed use grocery + residential building on the Kroger's site similar to the one on Washington. and YES! the market can support it, both the HEB, on West Alabama and Washington, are always packed and this one would capture the Kroger's customers.
  15. shasta
    I do.. A LOT and I'd say our "grand" districts are not as "grand" as other cities in the class we strive to belong with. Yes, I am referring to the top tier of cities because I believe we are in that class...
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