WesternGulf

45,000 students? So, UH is the third largest university in Texas, in one of the U.S.' largest?

45,000 is nothing more than a goal to be reached in the next 20 years. As stated above UH's enrollment is currently around, and has been for a long time, 35,000 students.

Interesting shots danax.

That doesn't seem like much. But I guess I'm thinking in comparison to UT or A&M. What's their total student undergrad population and current on campus population right now? Or is that 11,000 including on campus graduate students?

About 4000 students live in dorms and apartments in and around campus.

By the way, if the goal of 11,000 students on campus is reached that would be about 25% of the 45,000 students to be enrolled in the university. Five percent higher than A&M's current student body living on campus.

Are they trying to focus on becoming a more traditional school rather than having so many commuter students?

Exacty. In the next 20 years I believe they want the student population living on campus around 11,000.

Wonder how much consideration has gone into building under as in the downtown tunnel system. Classrooms underground why not? I'm sure its being done elsewhere and maybe here too?

PS, if ever around the campus visit the Channel 8 studios, totally cool.

I don't mind underground classrooms but I hope UH never goes the route of connecting buildings through underground walkways. I can admit it can be sometimes tempting when walking in harsh weather (heat or rain) around campus, but in the end I personally would never want it just to keep the vibrancy of the campus.

1st, I am proud of what we have and just want to see us improve it, thats not ignorance. 2nd, I might be ignorant on how the sky is reflected but the point is Galveston's Water is not a clear anything and other Gulf areas such as Padre and even the Gulf coast of Florida have nice clear blue or green water thats not brown.

That's the thing. I do not think Galveston's case can be "improved". I believe most of the brown along the coast is a "problem" from the Mississippi Delta all the way to this side of the Gulf. Even on some of the most cloudiest or overcast days, a mile out from the coast of Galveston is just as blue as any part of the southern Texas coast. Plus the disappearing and eroding beach in front of the Seawall is not helping either. The water will naturally reflect what is being washed away from the coast which is the brown clay type sand of the island rather than white sand that you will find on Florida beaches. By the way the whole ignorance was not totally geared towards you. Most comments that I hear about Galveston have to do with the mundane characteristics that you find on the beaten path. Nevermind some of the most historically beautiful neighborhoods in Texas fall on the island that put Houston Heights to shame. (No offense to heights residents, but come on.) All we hear about is how brown the water is, Moody Gardens, gift shops on the Strand, and what people we see on and off of Broadway.

It is just more proof that some Houstonians can be proud of the wrong things and ridicule or just have an overall ignorance of the things we should be proud of:

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The new mixed use graduate dorms.

Also on the College of Optometry site there is rendering for the new Vision Institue:

http://www.opt.uh.edu/Development/vision-institute.cfm

You don't ask drugstores to put an apartment building on top of their stores. You DO ask drugstores to put their stores in the first floor of your apartment building. If Midtown would have asked me to do that, I would have laughed at them, too. It sounds to me like the Midtown people don't know what they're doing

Ditto.

An example from the 1001 Ross mixed use development in Dallas:

Good news. What building is that going in?

Where the Courtyard by Marriott is. The Humble apartment building.

In about 3 weeks you'll be able to buy some really friggin' cool athletic shoes across the street from the Pavilions at Main and Polk. The Tipping Point, in my opinion, will be cooler than anything in the Pavilions.

Yeah I see it almost everyday at Main and Polk u/c. Exciting stuff, but only 3 weeks though? Looks like they have a long way to go.

Reliable sources tell me HP has been quietly signing up some more interesting tenants, bringing a broader range of retail, such as:

Lucho Boutique (high-end menswear)

BCBG Max Azria (womenswear - I think fairly high-end)

Journeys Shoes

Old Havana (not sure what this is...)

It's about time. Note the only decent place to buy athletic shoes anywhere near downtown is the Village.

WOW. I am actually surprised they asked for lofts on top! If building up to the sidewalk and not taking up the whole block for a single use development was too much, the former would have been a hassle. Very sad.

Okay, so I drove down Kirby today and I may have been wrong about what I said regarding the walk from Richmond to the West Ave site. It doesn't seem so bad after all.

It's not that bad of a walk but know that it always feels different in a car.

Here are some interesting pics:

http://flickr.com/photos/59591398@N00/sets...57594507855666/

Wow. That looks sweet. Does anyone know why they have named this Development "West Ave"?

Who knows. It might ne the name of the private street they're incorporating within it.

Merge: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...=4312&st=75

I had lunch at Au Bon Pain today.

So did I. Meaning yesterday.

Ummmm... BLVD Place and the Whole Foods shown in the rendering, will be a good 5 miles from the Pierce Elevated.

I was getting confused too.

But my question in return to that answer is...where are all the parking spots for outside dwellers of BLVD Place? How can they shop there if there's no space for their cars?

Well from what I have seen the only setrbacks for BLVD Place will be on Post Oak. The Whole Foods will be stripped with parking, just not as abundant as your average Houston grocery store. Plus I am pretty sure there will be several parking spaces in garages for BLVD Place.

Question.

It's BLVD Place thats anchor is going to be a grocery store, right? And that's supposed to be a small "walkable" community, right?

Well, why can't downtown get a grocery store then? Doesn't downtown already have a population bigger than what BLVD Place intends to house?

You bring up an interesting point, but like Niche pointed out, the obvious answer is the grocery will not serve the development alone. Plus as far as amenities, I think the options in BLVD place, as far as retail and residential are a lot more denser than downtown as a whole. I am sure someone can take a few adjacent blocks in north downtown that consist of hotels such as Magnolia and Hotel Icon, residences such as Hermann Lofts, Bayou Lofts, Franklin, Byrd's, and others, retail such as Market Square and the rest of the historic district and justify a grocery coming in such as BLVD's Whole Foods, but the surrounding demographics have to support it also.

Either way it goes, I think we would have to evolve as a society to see the benefits of gun control. Australia has had severe gun control for generations.

I am pro choice but late term abortions have always made my stomach almost literally turn.

BTW, here is an interesting map:

but you had to have a strong stomach on winding days as that sucker would sway big time.

I want some of what you were smokin' on those days. J/K. Butr I never had the feeling of the building swaying.