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  1. shasta
    Form follows Function!
  2. shasta
    yet...Houston manged to "self zone" a huge Medical Center, two giant parks (Hermann and Memorial), a Museum District, a number of downtown pocket parks, two major University Campuses (Houston and Rice), an Uptown, a downtown, a Mid Town, an EaDo and an Upper Kirby District among many others. These Houston bashers fail to understand that cities develop in layers and it is the connective tissue among the major districts that help make the city charming. That takes time. I can guarantee you that Houston, Texas is more developed and impressive than London, Paris, NYC, etc at AGE 187!
  3. shasta
    An uninspired glass box on the doorstep of downtown Houston...Yay! Come on, Hines!
  4. shasta
    ....has to be a typo, right? It is interesting how Austin has zoomed past Houston & Dallas in the minds of those outside of Texas. Architects pull their best projects out of the drawer for different cities. A 50 story building on Miami Beach , or Austin now, is going to get a better design than a project in 2nd tier cities like Houston or Dallas. Designers have a hierarchy for which "ideas/design concepts" they want to use where. Obviously, they want their best designs built in high profile cities.
  5. shasta
    This development is an embarrassment. This project started in 2007..yet they still have empty retail spaces. The restaurants in the spaces, with the exception of the Flight Club, look like VE'd crap you'd expect in a strip center in Pasadena..not on the front door of River Oaks. Autry Park got it right...Regent Square went for cheap and they did so with extreme incompetence. ..and of course this build out is not done (albeit it is a HUGE improvement over Georgia James and Pastore) Has it even started?
  6. shasta
    Wow, well played, Acqua! I'm assuming they just sold for a huge profit. I'm guessing, the developers wan to be close to the Ismaili Center and Garden
  7. shasta
    THIS is what I was expecting from Jim Crane and the Astros
  8. shasta
    An Astros themed district would be cool. I've been to about half of the stadiums in MLB and you can definitely tell which ones have a " cohesive district", similar to as you mentioned, and which ones are a hodgepodge of establishments hoping to become a district (which we are) and then some with not surrounding establishments at all. That is more of the NRG Stadium model.
  9. shasta
    I've been there also. It feels baseball. As far as it being dead, that probably has more to do with St. Louis having one of the worst downtowns in all of America.
  10. shasta
    look like one of those international style housing block whereas the Cardinals one LOOKS like a Baseball Village! How hard is it to continue the aesthetic from MMP? Even the apartment across the street tried to match the stadium. Come on Houston Astros!!
  11. shasta
    So they scaled this project back? I was thinking it was going to be multiple blocks similar to these Baseball oriented villages in other cities. The rendering doesn't scream "Baseball" or "Astros" to me. Just looks like a hotel the Houston Astros are investing in.
  12. shasta
    Is it one building...not a village? Doesn't look very baseball-ey (i.e the district around the St. Louis Cardinal's stadium
  13. shasta
    According to this article, the Houston metro population is going to balloon to 31.5 million by 2100 easily passing NYC ....so we are going to need many more 58+ story tall buildings...and soon! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-12637061/Is-future-America-Texas-Dallas-Houston-Austin-poised-replace-New-York-City-Los-Angeles-Chicago-largest-cities-not-77-years.html
  14. shasta
    yes...in the late 90s/early 2000s Pittsburgh (2001) near downtown Charlotte (1996) downtown Denver (2001) downtown Baltimore (1998) downtown Cleveland (1997) downtown
  15. shasta
    MMP was built in the right spot, wit synergy developing all around it. NRG/Reliant, much like the Houston Texans franchise decided to be stubborn and bucked all of the current trends about urban stadiums and built it in a seas of parking and then denied all development opportunities. Why...they wanted the parking $$
  16. shasta
    I like how it celebrates the original campus that the Cullen family donated to start the University. Landing that $1.3 Billion, from Prop. 5, will be another huge step in transforming The University of Houston from a Regional Public School, with little outside interest, to a Nationally renowned Public Institution with students all over the country wanting to attend here.
  17. shasta
    It's as if Regent Square wanted to be a high quality development but chose to turn itself into a valued engineering strip center type of development. There are plenty examples of successful restaurant design within blocks from RS... Go look how La Griglia integrates it's patio space with the street and then look and Georgia James and Pastore and the head-scratcher is that these were designed as Restaurant tenants!
  18. shasta
    When is phase two scheduled to break ground? Hopefully Building #2 & #3 are built sooner than later.
  19. shasta
    University of Houston jumps up 21 spots, in the USNW rankings, to be ranked the 70th best public University in the United States! https://stories.uh.edu/2023-usnwr-rankings/index.html Goal still remains to be a top 50 US public university + AAU designation and then we will focus on blowing by UT- Austin and TAMU-College Station!
  20. shasta
    Yes, there will be 3 buildings.
  21. shasta
    When does phase 2 break ground?
  22. shasta
    I only have two words for you..... ROLL TIDE!
  23. shasta
    Cougar Paw= Do a hook-em horns hand signal and then throw up a middle finger
  24. shasta
    MOD: Delete Post. Ban User. Ha
  25. shasta
    Serious question- what is taking so long for these tenants to move into Autry Park & Regent Square? I don't remember City Centre and River Oaks District having such a hard time finding tenants. Covid is no longer an excuse...nor is the economy. The malls and other similar developments are packed right now!
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