WesternGulf

A forumer at another board made a pretty good pont. He is a member here, but I don't know where he's at.

The understatement of the day.

I have had that mindset for too long. Downtown can learn from the burbs but just with smart growth. Downtown could pretty much learn from the Galleria area just with responsible city planning which Uptown lacks, but they do have the population and visitors that keep that area busy while downtown is a ghost town on a Saturday from morning till about 7 in the evening.

Thank you. It's just that in this city, people's excuse or defense is "I don't care what other people or cities think." edit: and yes I know this park is no MP.

I don't know about all that. Have we seen a project of this status anywhere else around town that we can autmatically have all these mental pictures in our head? We have seen what you are proposing in this city, and I wouldn't call it a succes by any stretch of the imagination. People have had several meetings thorughout the entire year to come up with this park and I have not seen another project where the citizens of the community were so involved, atleast that's what my mom says. I hate to bring another city into this but Millenium Park in Chicago is just what you described as everything dedicated in one year. As far as my eyes can see, the citizens of that town could care less. Well I cannot speak for them but that is what I saw when I visited. Do I even need to mention how much a success that park is? Maybe editor can speak for me on this.

The rendering doesn't sugar coat at all. It looks lke it butts I-45 at the end of the project. But it sits right next door to the Post Property to the north. CAn someone tell me if I am exaggerating this, but Post Midtown should be right across the street as shown in this rendering right?

Oh goodness. I see nothing wrong with this and I am usually critcal of this city but this was a smart move. What do we want for that area? Another garage? I also cannot wait for this park. The plans are exciting. Some of the preferred plans in here sound like an extension to that boring park west of this location near Houston Center which has not done a darn thig for the cbd. Time to try something different which I find Houston has been scared to do lately.

I don't know. Bought a new camera and I am playing around with it to get use to settings.

Well I am interested in photography and one of the members has a photo blog and I saw his pic on the blog and I happened to see him on the street.

Unfortunately, comapred to the rest of Houson neighborhoods, it does have quite a few, atleast in the commercial areas. I saw one young dude walking in deep Westmoreland singing in a suit when I was taking pics. Most people stare at people who are taking pics but he looked as if it was a normal occurrence. Greater Houston Preservation Alliance. More than likely a walking tour. Did anyone go to the Courtland Place walking tour? If so, I was the only black dude there. So you probably saw me.

I ran into Montrose Neighborhood Cafe at the Art Crawl.

Bleh.

How many times have we hard the word soil samples? Thanks for the update.

Sounds like another 2222 Smith Street.

Question foe groovehouse. Did I see a poster of him at the bottom of this light pole?

3 stadiums in downtown? Stadiums and arenas do not make for attractive infill when there is an overload of them in one area, so I would like to see how they could incorporate it in downtown.

Isn't this the same topic? http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...owtopic=4402&hl

Just a little photo editing. Yes they are orange if you are wondering.

I find myself taking pics of the neighborhood's eccentricity so why the hell not post a photo a day? Anyone else have pics that they would like to shre, feel free to post. First up, Tremont Tower

I think this is the project. Small renderings inside. http://www.pm-lifestyle.com/lifestyle_cent...reek/index.html

All of this stuff came with urban renewal. Street car lines stripped up to serve the car, businesses torn down to make way for parking, skywalks because they thought it was forward thinking, although in Minneapolis, temperatures below 0 can be kind of harsh.

WOW. They really took the thoughts out of my head and put it down on paper. It seems like they have the right idea. To bad we are still catering to the tunnel. With every new building that goes up, it seems like it is accessed by the tunnel. Even the retail that is suppose to be at the new garage at Main and Walker is suppose to be connected. Its kind of like how we are hustling to get money for rapid transit but continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for new freeways and expansions, but with the whole tunnel deal I guess this city still think thats what makes downtown "cool" or unique.

That's the case with CVS.

Let's see here. As a person that has been in Seattle and Denver, yes two very hilly cities, is it really that much more surprising that their downtown and surrounding neighborhoods are more livelier than say Houston? Parking structures do not hinder the streetscape in their downtowns as much as this city and parking is premium as a whole, where as in this city for every building that goes up in downtown, so does 300 parking spaces. While Houston is booming with these three story towhomes with huge driveways and front laoded garges, Seattle, Portland, and Denver are booming with midrise mixed use residentials in their neighborhoods where people have the convenience of walking out their apartments and shopping at retail at the bottom floor of their building or the apartment across the street or around the corner. Well someone in Midtown Houston can say, "Hell, I can walk to the local Cold Stone Ice Cream Shop in the shopping Center around the corner from me and not have a problem." Well, does everyone has the same mindset as this guy when it is so much more convenient to park in that sea of asphalt in front of the retail center? Nooooo. It is obvious as diverse Houston is. How many transplants from some of the most lively cities in the world, like Hong Kong, New York, Mexico City, Seoul, etc change their lifestlye that they had back home when living in a car dependant city like Houston? If it is not for economic reasons, they will probably take the car route to go the grocery store that is 3 blocks away to pick up 3 things.

Thank you, but I must say that culture can be a little overrated. Most of the blame is put on the people rather than the built environment. For example, I hear people say, Houston is such a driving culture. It is not that we actually choose to be as people, but it is what is more convenient and more comfortable in this city. I believe we are not any different from the people in say Seattle, Denver, or Portland that have a whole "walking culture", but it is more how their city is built.