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    It'll be way better than a parking lot that's for sure
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    First columns are going up, and the forms for the floors are staged
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    Looks like they are almost done with the third fourth floor
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    I like the idea, but I would prefer the park cap over 59/69/45 - it needs money to exist
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    Pappadeaux and a Pappasito's downtown? My family may never leave me alone lol
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    How would you fix the dark spooky spots beneath the elevated structure? I'm unfamiliar with NYC's high-line park, so I don't know what's underneath it there.
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    Yesterday I was walking next to Houston Center (the shops at Houston center - don't remember which number that is) and noticed there's big plastic panels that seem perfectly sized to be windows. Were there street level windows that were removed? That could really enhance its street level presence.
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    Seems like there's been a public announcement: http://www.chron.com/news/transportation/article/I-45-moving-sinking-and-shifting-from-Pierce-6216991.php#photo-7861743
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    One of the things I've been wondering is why they chose to have their GFR on the outside of the two buildings (Leeland and Jefferson) as opposed to having them face each other on Pease to create more of a retail corridor
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    METRORail Green Line

    cspwal replied to a topic in Transit

    The implication to me was it's not supposed to be a pedestrian bridge - the pedestrians have to jump over the railroad tracks
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    Probably another mattress store. The closest is over half a mile away
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    I was reminded by Facebook this morning that one year ago today, they were clearing out the lot for the parking - and an excavator was sitting on top of a pile of dirt. So I guess it only seems like it's taking forever
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    Hope not. It would be much better if they get the downtown post office site
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    http://urbanland.uli.org/planning-design/city-almost-no-limits/ This article is mainly about the lack of zoning here, but there was an interesting tidbit about the market square tower Did we know about this? I don't remember anything about the virtual golf simulator, and I didn't know if the grocery store was anything more than a rumor.
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    Nice action shot of them moving the scaffolding
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    I think that's sort of the Camden downtown plan
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    This could be a nice mediocre park in the meantime
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    This project has real gravitas - it seems to bend space-time around it
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    *face palm* I was looking at just the wood wow. Yeah May-June not July-August. I wonder how long it will take after the structure is up to finish out the building
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    Looking at the critical mass picture v this one, looks like its about a floor a month now that they're in the wood. They should top off in July-August then..
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    I wonder if AT&T will hook this building up with fiber internet - just have to throw a cable across the street
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    From the article on the Taiwan rail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_High_Speed_Rail#History There's no indication on whether they eventually did have to use public funds, but it at least started as a privately funded venture. Railroads in the US have almost always been ventures started by private companies, but many state and local governments (and the federal government too - the trans-continental railroad comes to mind) tried to encourage and support the rails using land grants. On a side note - if this bill fails and Texas Central keeps eminent domain power, couldn't they conceivably just buy the slightly expanded right of way to get downtown to the post office location?
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    I don't know - my company is looking at building a new scaled down building that won't serve our future needs. Investors/board members can sometimes be very conservative with their capital money now even with a clear savings in the next few years
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    High speed railways can be highly profitable - according to Wikipedia, Central Japan Railway made over $1.1 billion last year net income. And these are the people who are investing money to build out Texas Central. 6 out of the 13 HSR services that I could find were private companies making a profit. (I counted England as 1 even though there are 9 train operators) Quick overview: - Japan (Shinkansen) - private rail, makes a profit - China - government owned - France (TGV) - government owned - Germany (ICE) - privately owned, parent company makes a profit - Spain (AVE) - government owned - Italy - (NTV) is a private company, Trenitalia is government owned - England - Multiple private companies run trains on government owned tracks (Note on Europe - it seems most railroads are split from the trains that run on them) - South Korea (Korail) - private rail, makes a profit - Taiwan (THSRC) - private rail. The article sounds similar to what Texas Central is going to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_High_Speed_Rail - Turkey - government owned - Russia - Russian Railways is privately owned, but is operating at a loss - USA - (Acela) government subsidized private company (Source article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lines )
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    This article has a nice summary of the opposition to the high speed rail http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/04/meet-the-opposition-to-texas-high-speed-rail/390576/ The part about blocking applications to the Surface Transportation Board sounded new though
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