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    METRORail Green Line

    cspwal replied to a topic in Transit

    I can understand why they want the tracks to still be concrete when in the middle of the street (allows emergency vehicles to use the lane, cars if there's a blockage, and doesn't require the fancy trucks with train wheels for Metro to maintain it) but I don't understand why when they are in a dedicated right of way (like the purple line going through the townhouses in East Downtown or the green line going under the tracks) they still use concrete. Wouldn't it be cheaper to use the standard ballast and ties? I think that's what Dallas does (?)
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    Even adjusted for inflation that's only $900. That's insane, both how cheap it was and how expensive it is now
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    Either they are filling the building in with a lot more units than expected, or this garage is built for a future tower. Maybe they were inspired by the 16 story parking garage that just went up on Louisiana Any estimates on how many units they might be dividing this up into?
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    http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2015/05/fastcasual-pizzeria-comes-to-houston-with-big.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_houston+%28Houston+Business+Journal%29
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    Chimney Rock goes all the way through, but it's also pretty far west of Post Oak to be used as a reliever. The natural choice would be Sage RD, but it would have to be extended across the bayou and through what looks (on Google Earth) to be a very ritzy neighborhood. If it went straight across the bayou it would land in a mansion's backyard That being said a Sim City mayor would have no qualms demoing the couple of houses for a road
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    They'll lease to people who need a place to live, who don't have time to check a hundred different spots to see which is the best, who are moving from out of town.
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    What knowledge does that give them to do a study on a public transit proposal?
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    Drove by this block this morning, and it looked like there was a green construction fence up around half of it. Don't know how long its been up though. (The block facing the park, north of Leeland)
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    Isn't it more likely whoever owns the IT block will want to sit on it until it makes sense to build the tower - and rake in the parking revenue until then?
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    The prefab parking structure looks so out of place right now
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    The blue historic house sitting in the foreground gave me a 1 am quality idea - historic style townhouses on that lot, sold to baseball fans with season tickets
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    I think I slightly prefer the main street side over the rendering, but the Pease side is definitely worse
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    The main thing that Block 334 has done has made that Goodyear look severely out of place
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    http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/offstreet/docs_pdfs/Chapter26_Ordinance_march_2013.pdf It looks like you're right - the parking minimums are mostly waved for downtown, except for residential buildings. I think.
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    Never, if parking minimums are kept the same
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    I know it's not a good indicator, but I do see cars coming and going from Skyhouse more often, as well as the street parking on Leeland more used during the day Incidentally, is the Skyhouse garage resident only? Or will retail customers eventually get to park in it?
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    Would they have to do remediation if it was turned into a train station again?
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    One of the articles made it sound like Whole foods wasn't interested in a one block development but a larger size did interest them. Maybe they want their floor plan to take up more than a block on the first floor?
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    From the rendering it looks like that vehicle entrance is where Rosaile is - think that it might be a thru alley similar to Skyhouse?
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    Also the construction of the giant trench across the street might bother the residents if they want to go anywhere
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    Concrete army
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    It looks like from this rendering from a while ago that the windows will have the multiple panes like the horror they have up right now, but it looks like they are filling up the whole frame, not inset
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    Because the opponents want to stop it before it gets a full head of steam
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    They won't know how much tax payer money might even be used until after their proposed route is approved by the Feds. They have stated publicly multiple times that they want to build this with private funds - however, they still have to cooperate with TxDot because they are making a transportation project in Texas. They won't do the in-depth study for how many bridges going over how many roads, and how much that might be, until they get the approval. I think they are telling the truth, and most of this is just paranoia not wanting another Trans-Texas corridor.
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    The photo from May 2 looked like it had one less floor, so I'd say one floor a week give or take. At that rate it'll be done in 30 more weeks or so? About 7 months I would guess anyway. Probably longer than shorter.
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