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Porsche of North Houston is one of the top performance Porsche dealers in America and is a treat to visit. I see this being a mommy-mobile dealer with mostly the SUV's and sedans. I am excited to see this flanking the Audi dealers across the freeway though. 

I think it would have been awesome if this site was purchased or donated to Mfah and used as a space for certain collections similar to Rienzi. 

5 hours ago, Montrose1100 said:

That was sincerely the most cringe-worthy marketing I've ever seen in my life. 

It really looks like a parody of ridiculous marketing. I thought it was a joke at first. 

52 minutes ago, por favor gracias said:

In their respective contexts, they're both right. You can say it's "booming," but those numbers are coming from places opening up from the pandemic. That still counts, but to me it comes with a grain of salt. Of course, there's always the whole "booming for who" thing too. Depends on your definition/perspective.

Yeah it’s a grey area. The economy was roaring in the 20’s but only for a very select few. Things are definitely looking up but but jobs added numbers can be deceiving, a lot of jobs added in recent years have been second and third jobs because peoples primary jobs can’t support them. 

3 hours ago, ljchou said:

Why does every affordable housing complex look the exact same?

It makes them cheaper.

Sorry no pictures and I didn’t get a great look since I noticed at the last second but I saw a large bobcat loading stuff into a dump truck. I might be able to swing by later and get a shot. 

25 minutes ago, Skyboxdweller said:

Love this picture! Did you know that there is an open to the public pre-Civil War cemetery a few courtyards over from the one in the picture?  Quite a juxtaposition of styles and uses along this street. 

Came across it one day on google maps and it has a very fascinating history.

https://www.harriscountyarchives.com/Portals/1/Documents/Marker/Final Morse Bragg narrative with figures July 7.pdf
 

This goes into great detail and also shows a lot of what Houston was like pre civil war. This part of town was mostly one large plantation and little did I know but San Felipe was a very old wagon tail long before this part of town was considered part of Houston. 

Are they dents or is the metal of such thin gauge that it’s just warping and buckling.

Oof that’s a Ferrari rim I spy. 

One reason it’s going so fast is that the Kinders gave a $70 million donation specifically to speed up the development.  

This building couldn’t have worse street and pedestrian interaction unless they erected a wall with razor wire and guards. 

Has this actually started or are they still just adding drainage and shoring up the banks?

Is it just me or is this progressing pretty slowly? 

Storm water retention maybe? 

On 2/24/2021 at 1:07 PM, Triton said:

Reached out to family that has all the material (who would actually know) because I am not sure. Why, what are you thinking? We could submit those photos to them?

They would be stoked! Us history buffs love having objects from the past but generally is not the physical object we love it’s the connection to people in the past that used it. A historian loves nothing more that to find great stories and period photos of of something like this. 

42 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said:

I’m really annoyed no design has been released for this. And I’m even more annoyed both buildings were destroyed for a temporary parking lot. This is a huge loss for the area right before the start of the season. I’m worried this is going to drag on before Crane decides to ever do anything with it. 

I agree. I can see these remaining as a parking lot for a long time. 
 

All of this talk of the sinking of 59 has me pretty depressed too. That part of St. Emanuel is a lot of fun and has come so far in the past decade and it’s all about to be flushed down the toilet so some suburbanites can save 10 minutes on their commute for a few years before it’s just as bad as it was before. 

56 minutes ago, BigFootsSocks said:

$11k is a bit greedy too! Yikes, you could get a unit in another high rise for that much

You can be on the 30th floor in a high-rise with your car parked in a secure, covered, valeted garage. All while living in building with a bunch of amenities that this one does not for less than this price. 

5 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

All the illegal dumping around this site has me frustrated. There are now 3 sofas scattered around. I know the site is monitored with cameras.  Looking forward to Hines cleaning this place up.

A ton of 1.75 liter liquor bottles get dumped here every few months, pretty odd. Just a mass of detritus and broken glass surround the site.

On 1/22/2021 at 6:39 AM, Kim Brown said:

Framing has started January 14th per owner's Facebook post.
https://www.facebook.com/GulfCoastHousingPartnership/

The max size of files that I can add is 28.88 kb and all the photos I have exceed that 😔
Not sure how can I save an image in order for it to be small enough to add here.
 

Go to “other media” in the bottom right of the comment creator, click on that and you can see “add image from url.” If the image is already hosted from another site you can right click on the image and copy it’s url and then paste it in there. It will then convert the link into the image that you copied the url of. If you have taken the photo and it is not hosted anywhere you can create a free account in an image hosting site like “Imgur” and then do the same. In fact Imgur makes it incredibly easy to copy the url and will have an option to copy the url right next to the photo once published. This is how people like Hindesky can have have 100 billion high resolution images in their comments. 

Anecdotally I’ve seen a lot of old small office spaces outside of major office market areas being torn down and replaced with retail or other more modern and useful development. Honestly would love for that to happen more. I’d rather lose 100 of those small outdated office blocks than one tower downtown.

People like this don’t have the time, money or energy to fight something like that. 

1 hour ago, iah77 said:

MD Anderson added several floors a few years ago to their main building, it was designed to be expanded as well.  

Texas children’s down the street did this. They added like 10 stories or something to an existing occupied building. 
 

This is no doubt a disappointing development on this project but I’d much prefer this to what is currently occupying the land.

21 hours ago, mls1202 said:

That might be the only hill in Houston!  It's practically San Francisco's trolley cars!

Lawndale/Wayside would respectfully disagree.

25 minutes ago, gmac said:

Would you feel any different if this was replaced with a dozen (or more) condos to increase density?

There are an absurd amount of empty lots in this city that can be filled up first, then the surface lots, then the shitty stucco strip malls, then...

We have so much space to add density without destroying historic structures.