WesternGulf

Honestly, I do not think the current LRT is that bad if you are not using it for full commuter purposes such as riding from Fannin South to Main Street Square. Parking is still too cheap in downtown and 30 minutes on a tram is not better than spending at the most 8-10 minutes driving 288 to downtown. With that said, for anyone who has visited Portland and has been on the yellow line, it is very comparable to the current Red Line. The Red line goes to Downtown to Reliant Park and the yellow line goes from downtown to Portland's Expo Center. Both are about the same distance and average out to about 30 minutes for the 7 mile ride. Now why does the Red Line have almost triple the number of passengers a day as the Yellow Line in Portland? Our glorified bus route is doing something right.

I think the argument of being world class and aesthetics and overlooking what is sustainable does not get people very far. This is why I cringed when one man in the Pro Richmond Rail crowd was on multiple news stations stressing how is Houston going to be world class if...........? Personally I started to tune out. I would also love for rail to be on Westheimer but it will not work for obvious reasons that most can see on the surface. The fact that some on here are talking about Westpark having fewer stops and longer stretches of grade seperation is very telling. It almost sounds like we are talking about commuter rail rather than neighborhood transportation. The argument about placing light rail on Westpark rather than the heart of places like Greenway Plaza is like placing the current line that goes through the TMC on Almeda vs Fannin.

So did I. Meaning yesterday.

I was getting confused too.

It has some crazy photo shop but I believe this is it: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=372546757&size=o

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.

Might be fixed.

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.

Is this it? Center right:

Haven't seen this month's Texas Monthly but here is a slightly larger pic of Parkside.

A lot of companies in this part of the region still have issues with adding sexual orientation to discrimination policies. I have a cousin in Atlanta that had the same feelings as you. His immediate family is pretty open minded and progressive but what he feared the most were his friends. The sad thing is, it took an act of attempted suicide for some of his friends to accept him. With that said I find it unfortunate how so many have a blind eye to suicide rates in this country because they still think someones sexuality is as black and white as a choice.

I fell guilty but and probably true.

Think so. 200 units, 500 space parking garage, and 50,000 sq ft of retail.

I believe there is suppose to be two floors of parking below the library. Here is another angle from McGowen and Main. Notice the HCC building in the background.

I was looking at the Kirksey website and it looks like there is some sort of library proposal for the superblock in midtown. Here are the renderings: From Main Street http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8931/235w18pc2.jpg http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3900/409fargoym3.jpg Layout of Library. McGowen light rail station at upper right. http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7892/407heightshj3.jpg Anymore info?

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.

Let me be the first to say this is a story that would be buried in the newspaper in my view, but I seriously do not get this statement. Philadelphia does Mayor Nagin a favor to show how former blighted areas were turned around in urban areas, but his main gripe, don't know if he should have one at all, is how ugly Philadelphia is. How many situations have you ran across where public officials have done this? Specifically about Houston? He has a right to his opinion but you do not see anything barren about this situation? How race was brought up is beyond me in this particular case.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...ic=9037&hl=

You love it. Like I said earlier, if any of it was proposed or planned in Houston, it would be used to defend the city QUICK. If it is located anywhere else, the response would be "it's aight."

Only historical condo buildings in downtown. Some have balconies on their backwalls though such as Commerce Towers and Bayou Lofts.

I saw this on TV last night. Not the most informative report.

I am pro choice but late term abortions have always made my stomach almost literally turn. BTW, here is an interesting map:

Don't worry. I hate to say it, but if it was in Houston, it would be on our resume QUICK. Nice looking tower.

Google is criminally outdated. Here is a more updated photo of the area. Indika to the right.

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