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https://davis-commercial.com/property/lease/314-Westheimer-Rd.html There was some brouhaha back in 2010 when Davis was marketing the property for $18/sf. Now it's up for $24/sf. Is this news?

Looks like they are down to one spot available. Don't think we knew about The Joint or Roosters? Rent is $46/SF NNN I walked by yesterday and Domino's looks just about ready to start making pizzas.

Quite a presence from the street

I'm torn on the neighborhood supporting a measure like that, but something a la the 10 minute parking in front of Izakaya would have sufficed. Fluff bake bar just moved out from that block, and she said that the constant break-ins, and the lack of easily accessible parking kept her from fully succeeding. I go down Bagby every day, and there were repetitive offenders taking advantage of the 10 minute parking area (one was a bright yellow Datsun pickup truck. I mean, you don't exactly blend in). Hou Parking is rather lax in enforcing parking anywhere, much less there 😕 For people not too familiar with the area, I marked the block we are talking about with the star. The striped marked area is the original market-based parking area. The non-striped additions were added 3Q19 and don't require parking in any form for residential or commercial.

Absolutely. The Houston Resilient plan and the draft of the Climate Action Plan both call for widespread extension of market-based parking within the next decade (like within 610).

This block is outside the market based parking area, so they would have to provide off-street parking. The place I live is not competing with these new high rises😂 I get what you mean, though.

Really going to try to leverage the construction of this to keep my rent the same next year 😂 Excited to see it go up, though. Was showing this dev to a former NYC planner and they were blown away that such a thing is possible "in the middle of a neighborhood". I still think that a small coffee shop open to the public would do really well here, but I know that it would likely cause tremendous issues with parking and having a public lot.

The "cut-through" that I was reference is that people are traveling 45S (like Heights area or whatever) and driving towards Sugarland and instead of going through the 45/59 interchange, their navigation apps are recommending that they get off the highway to drive Bagby to then get on the spur. Also, I don't think anyone is taking the spur to go to the Museum District. Can you clarify? Edit: Diagram of people "cutting-through" Red: Someone bypassing a highway by driving through a neighborhood. Green: Their normal route. Blue: The route that will be available to downtown commuters which will remain open. I meant shifting drivers over two streets to the other side of the same ramp onto the spur. The same spur entrance will still exist on Smith St. Because the traffic engineers said so? If you live in a highrise in Midtown why would they be trying to leave Midtown to go 59S during rush hour? Unless you are talking about somebody that is living in Midtown but then working in the Galleria or Sugarland, but then they would be reverse-commuting and not competing with traditional commuters.

Why will shifting over two blocks to use that entrance will "very negatively" impact you? Are you a downtown commuter or are you using it as a cut-through from 45 to 59?

I believe those are pre-existing. Not allowed to make sidewalks 4'. I believe they have to be 6'

Hutchins is paint only, so definitely a lot faster!

Sign appears to be at Cavalcade @ AIrline. Don't get too excited, I remember reading something about this before and along the red line it's sidewalk improvements only. I did find this PDF from the a public meeting held in June 2018 The TLDR is this from Airline to Irvington

Sorry if my comments came across as being a little too far last night, they were a bit too 'extra'. With that being said, I don't think that there are hundreds of thousands of people that are trying to get downtown because there's only just over 100,000 jobs in Downtown and I don't think that many people are going to court or getting a new passport. It will never be sustainable to have people drive their own vehicles by themselves from outside Beltway 8. Park and Ride ridership is up between 6 and 10% YOY and it needs to increase more. Metro really needs to make a better effort with more options from P&R locations direct to the Med Center or Uptown, etc. "No access" just means driving up to the ramp in Downtown. Not great, but it would be a mega improvement. Would gladly trade having to drive up to an entrance ramp instead of having all of those cars in Midtown. Would be interesting to see traffic reduction results from non-commuters having their Waze/Google Map "shortcut" blocked with no-through traffic signs. So we should never widen or improve highways then because the people living out there should know what they were signing up for? The streets in Midtown are grossly overbuilt except for the 1 hour in each direction that they receive rush hour traffic, and it creates a safety hazard from reckless drivers who treat them like a highway the other 23 hours of the day. There is wanton disrespect for HOV lanes/speed limits/pedestrian right of way. It's more akin to Shepherd/Durham than to West U/ Bellaire. Or we could keep spending $20 billion/year on highway expansion in Texas for a problem that can't be solved and only creates more upkeep costs into perpetuity!

From the Crowdstreet site, this is the timeline they posted: Closing: December 2019 Demo and Prelim Site Work: December 2019 - April 2020 Civil Work Begins: May/June 2020 Foundation and Podium: July 2020 - December 2020 Building Improvements: January 2021 - June 2022 Preleasing: August 2021 - August 2022 Move-in: August 2022

Midtown represents more than half of the market-based parking area and will likely be a heavy "participant" in the walkable places ordinance. It's uniquely primed with the red line connecting it to the two of the major job centers. We don't have plenty of options who want to live closer to core jobs and have extremely convenient public transit access. It will be interesting to see what the 2020 census info looks like for Midtown and inside 610.

It was open on both sides originally We are not talking about removing the spur. We are talking about removing one of the entrances and the exits to the spur. It appears your compassion is as keen as your reading ability. Of course it's a balance, but sending tens of thousands of commuters through surface streets (and having them drive 40+ MPH) through a rapidly growing neighborhood doesn't make sense. Giving people options on places they want to live near desirable jobs that don't require them to drive 50+ miles/day is the only way sustainable way forward.

Just... wow. Metro's Park & Ride has a very good reputation and is continuing to see increased ridership. Also, plenty of non low economic people take the bus. Also, METRO is not a city agency. They also cost a shit ton more money. Like 5-10X as much. A commuter rail to Kingwood would cost nearly $2 Billion and the Kingwood P&R serves... 800 people per day. Even if you add in Eastex and Townsen it's less than 3,000/day. Clearly the more than 12,000 people per day that ride the 82 on Westheimer should just buy their own car, drive down Westheimer, and traffic would be greatly relieved. Doubtful. There are significantly more BRT than light rail systems being planned around the world. Single occupant vehicles are more likely to be a thing of the past. I agree, but then again I don't think taxpayers should be subsidizing massive highway and road projects. Less than 1/4 of TxDOT's budget comes from car registration fees and gas taxes. If car drivers had to pay their fair share and we could use the $20+ billion/year in car subsidies to actually develop a public transit network that would work and get people out of cars. Why didn't Texas Central think to just move the station closer into town? It does happen to be about a mile away from the Northwest Transit Center which allows zero-transfer access to the Galleria and Downtown on BRT. Also, Texas Central is making a significant real estate play, which is additionally why they chose the old mall.

That is the existing road. It wouldn't go onto the spur. Edit: Also, I lived in Westmoreland for almost 5 years, I would be shocked if anybody that lived there would prefer to have a private spur onto the highway (and have traffic funnel through the neighborhood to get there) versus losing access into the neighborhood from Bagby.

Their site does say that it will feature a LifeCafe and it has a pic of a juice bar looking kind of thing, too.

Home Slice will be taking the former Sparrow location at 3701 Travis https://www.chron.com/entertainment/restaurants-bars/article/Austin-s-Home-Slice-Pizza-to-slice-into-Midtown-15047183.php Coming "Early 2021"

The rendering is 😍 I used to live in Westmoreland, and it is so dangerous crossing at Holman. This would be a real benefit for the area.

Life Time Fitness opening "Spring 2020" Life Time Work coming with no date https://www.lifetime.life/life-time-locations/tx-greenstreet-houston.html 👏

It's funny, I grew up going to the other Felix's location... in Beaumont when I was growing up. Evidently the original Felix's chairs went to El Real. I wonder what is happening to them now that they're closed.

Forgot to post, they finished the facade test a little bit last week and might be looking at a brick color change:

Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long. I live nearby, and there aren't really any low-cost pizza chains nearby. Papa Johns at Westheimer/Montrose (which is likely to be gone soon enough) and Pepperoni's and nothing in Midtown. Yes, there is plenty of pizza out there, but there is surely some demand for low end. Maybe they'll get some of the delivery ebikes like downtown has.