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  1. WesternGulf
    Homewood Suites.
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    I'm sure its your average fire station.
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    Yeah these are more than a dime a dozen in midtown/montrose right now. The actual well designed ones are a minortiy though.
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    Hmmm can you tell us more about the project that we may not know about.
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    Is this the scapegoat for every project? Don't make progress because of traffic?
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    ^^ You're trying to get this to page 23 aren't you?
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    Maybe I was young but I did think the Page Parkes building was interesting on the inside when I went there for some type of meeting.
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    I've never been but I am half your age. Don't think I ever will.
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    Why would you be surprised Philly has a better library, or even Pittsburgh for that matter? In a sense, Philly is larger than us.
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    and I am the only one who struggles to sit in those computer chairs? You need some serious balance for those things.
  11. WesternGulf
    So they are removing the red carpet? At first I thought this was about the historic library across the plaza. Nothing horrid about that library.
  12. WesternGulf
    are you xelee?
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    Believe me they are. I lived there for a very short time. Both are the epitome of sunbelt cities. Both have many business districts/edge cities that hurt downtown's potential, went through the same urban renewal patterns that plague both cities today, and they are both heavily street car suburban within their inner city. They are both trying to fix their problems and I wont mention who is doing a better job unless I want to be ostracized on this forum.
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    I guess this is good news. More retail, why not? Atlanta is the guinea pig in this situation since Houstyon and ATL are so much alike. I think Morton's really does nothing for their downtown, which I believe is in the Sun Trust building, but it wouldn't hurt.
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    I love how you are assuming I haven't. By the way, I am not talking about Main Street Square but the part where they eliminate cars only on the weekend where the streets look even more dead around Preston Station. People hardly walk in the streets anyway. I am sure we will need all the space we can get this weekend but we all know this concept is not even necessary on an average weekend in downtown Houston.
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    Isn't Denever Pavilions on the 16th street pedestrian mall? I am all for great urban planning but I am starting to hate the whole pedestrian mall atmosphere. I might be a minority but I wish they opened up Main around Preston station to car traffic again.
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    With some of those name ideas they mentioned on the news yesterday makes me appreciate 1836 even more.
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    Something about the palms at St Joseph look extremely out of place and not that attractive. I guess it does not contrast with the building too well.
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    I rather not see a hotel at the pavilion site so a hotel could take up another surface lot nearby. Also, is the Hilton Americas suppose to be mixed use? Did they introduce the project with ground floor retail?
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    wow. This really says a lot about the amenities located in our inner loop neighborhoods when we are anticipating a new Target to open. When I saw the thread title, I also though this was being praised for an urban design but this is nothing more than a South Main Target. I know many may disagree with me or for the most part really could care less but are population is hardly progressive when dealing with the development patterns of this city. Speaking of that Atlanta Target, I am surprised so many here know about it. I have friends who live in that neighborhood of Atlanta who claim that neighborhood sold its soul to the devil by building a development focused on nothing but big box retailers in a neighborhood where mom and pop stores are king. Atleast the development attempted to be urban.
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    I personally think they make the streets look even more dead. Especially around Preston station on the weekends.
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    Isn't this the new building for Austin? It is suppose to be designed by the same devloper of the Mosaic in the Museum District.
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    Don't we already know the success of pedestrian malls and pedestrian only streets in downtown Houston?
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    or we will become a low rise hong kong. the humidity in this city can make that more of a reality.
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    I love the Post Midtown Square design but it is hard to not notice the cheap materials. The "stucco" siding almost looks like fake fake stucco. I wonder what this city will look like when the new developments age with a whole bunch of patina.
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