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    Yes, they are kind of hidden. Some are actually in the skywalk. Some deli place is suppose to be opening up. Also a Walgreens and Starbucks will be opening on the first floor.
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    I guess you do not know how development and public transportation can co-exist. Metro cannot invest and build transit oriented development* because it does not have anything to do with P.T? How do you think public transportation gets its passengers? Unless you believe it is exclusively used just by the poor. *A transit-oriented development (TOD) is a residential or commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport, and often incorporates features to encourage transit ridership.
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    Is this from those gated townhomes at Hutchins and Holman? BTW, what is that huge blank wall?
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    There should be a "............" at the end of this sentence. Prices have gone up for reasons that the Afton Oak's crowd are oblivious of. Prices have gone up for certain reasons that you cannot admit but you will blindly criticize METRO's efforts even if they are trying to kill two birds with one stone by zoning land that will aid the transit agency to improve their services and responsibly develop land that has been sitting vacant in Midtown. ONLY in Houston I tell you. I forgot conformism gets you further than actual THINKING.
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    You made your stance clear with your first post. You are entitled to yours, but lets not act like there is no government intervention when dealing with the opposite style of developing. Funny Houston's few zoning laws actually prohibit the building of communities that advertise smart growth. It was also post-war government housing policy that encouraged construction of new homes and the highway system (also government funded) made it economical to build new homes far away from the center city.
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    Overkill don't you think? I understand the convenience but that's a little too much. I could understand a Walgreens or CVS at every station, but only if the density was there. Have you seen the new CVS they are building at Elgin? Again, I do not think people are against the company CVS, but they are totally care free when it comes to design. The backside, possibly the drive thru pharmacy window, is facing the rail line. The whole block strip mall format is bad enough. How it is situated just screams bite me.
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    LOL
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    Good stuff Jax. Glad to know they have a market in Houston and it is amazing that the first tower sold out so quickly. Maybe they can settle in other hot areas and do the same.
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    That sign has been there for ages. Lovett and Mixed Used sounds funny anyway.
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    I agree, but maybe I am bias since I believe stadiums are the worse "infill" ever. The stadiums and convention center do just as much damage as 59 sitting there in my opinion as far as the community being cut off.
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    I definitely hope this would mix all four uses. The way that Mandarin has hotels opening in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and Las Vegas in the next two years has me hoping. Especially when looking at the Chicago and Dallas designs with the same concept.
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    I found this in the Houston Compilation thread at SSP and I was trying to find out of anyone may have any knowledge on the project. Looks like it is located at Texas and Main. Found under Multi Family residential http://www.kobikarp.com/site/
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    rendering
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    Funny the city population is basically the Inner Belt (yeah I made that up) population.
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    Yeah I took some photos. I just need to get them off of my camera. I'll have them up tomorrow morning.
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    I have to admit I have never been attracted to the actual park at Market Square. I think one thing is the view that is from the "square". It feels to open if that makes sense. Do a flickr seacrh of "market square houston" to see what I mean. Adding more mature trees wouldn't hurt either. Not just on the square but on the sidewalks that are in the vicinity of the sqaure. Too much concrete is visible from that place. Baldwin Park in Midtown has a more enclosed feel than Market Square.
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    Your thinking of the city density. Harris County's density is around 2200 ppsm while Dallas' has around 2800 ppsm. That said, Harris does have around 1,000 more square miles than Dallas'.
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    I'll try. So what is the exact intersection?
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    Yeah I did my #'s wrong. I was looking at the first column for all of them when dealing with percentage growth. I'll do them later. With that said, you could probably add .1-.2 points to each of them. edit: percentages corrected in original post.
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    I only did counties with only half of a million people or more. Bexar: +39,006 (2.6% growth) Collin: +37925 (5.7% growth) Dallas: +37,288 (1.6% growth) Denton: + 29,244 (5.3% growth) El Paso: +15,127 (2.1% growth) Harris: +123,363 (3.3% growth) Hidalgo: +21,982 (3.2% growth) Tarrant: +51,629 (3.2% growth) Travis: +31,464 (3.5% growth) Source: http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/tabl...T2006-01-48.xls
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    ^^ Those are from the flash site.
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    [sarcasm]I don't.[/sarcasm] Of course we do, but it would be nice if developers did not half step the many projects coming to this part of downtown, so we can see it at its full potential. One Park Place, could have had a better design of course, is at its full potential IMO. Although I would have had the small grocery facing the park instead of the opposite side of the building. I echo the comments about the people who said this park would not have an impact on future development of the area and an "evolving" park would have been better. :closedeyes: Nice to see so much is happening before construction is even finished. That part of downtown already looks totally different and better from a couple of months ago. Exciting stuff.
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    You got to start somewhere with retail though. I'm sick of seeing just another pretty structure in downtown that does nothing for the vibrancy of the community. Something that killed our downtown during the building boom and removed dozens of blocks like the block at Preston Station where St Pete's sits. No point in going to that area if all you are going to walk by our walls with an entrance for employees only.
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    No way. I would love to see how that fits the lot.
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