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Looking at the map and the satellite view, it looks like the burger king is the only thing in the way of Travis going to Holcombe.  I don't know what you would gain with that however, as it would be so close to the Main and Holcombe intersection.  You would probably have to extend the median to block left turns onto Travis or from Travis.  I see why the city would like someone else to open it up with out the city having to buy the BK, but requiring it through permits seems...odd.  

The diamond is lit up!  Have we gotten pictures of that before?

I actually kind of like it, as it gives a little bit of a modern feel to the big "Home of Easy Credit" ad on Clark's.  It's only visible there, and a lively downtown needs a little bit of tackiness for people to complain about.  Way better than just a giant blank wall of a parking garage.

Hello Everyone- This is Jason Franklin with the Ivy Lofts- I have really enjoyed reading your thoughts on our upcoming project and would be happy to answer any questions you may have. I can do that here, or if you would like to contact me directly, you can reach me at jason@theivylofts.com.

 

I look forward to your questions.

What sort of parking will units have?  A normal 9 x 18 parking spot is 162 square feet, more than half the size of your smallest units.  Is this building going to literally be half parking garage?

Super close election - I was surprised though at how low the turn out was.  I know it was an OK turn out for the type of election, but when you realize there are a million registered voters (source) and there were only 212,696 votes cast for mayor, that's amazing to me.

Another way:

1,000,000 registered voters

   212,696 votes cast

   108,389 for the new mayor

Only a tenth of this city actually stated they want our new mayor for the next four years

And only a tenth of the city said they want someone else

What was everyone else doing?  Why does the overwhelming majority of the city not care? This is an election where your vote definitely would have counted, seeing how close it was

Ugh

Plans for Westlooptopia, with ground floor retail and inner loop theme park

http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-vertical-sprawl-and-other-high-concepts/2015-12-14/

If that is the rendering then we should expect this....

I would like to see a hotel that looked like a monopoly piece...but it would have to look good

So this will be two specialty HISD high schools on the purple line

Hinedesky do you ever record your route?  I'd be curious how many miles you're riding on one of these marathon photo missions - especially if today was cut short!

Oh so this building will have glass

It would have been nice if they had kept the facade somehow while it was a parking lot...

I love that tunnel.  I hope they do something with it.  There is hope - wasn't the Alexan Heights the one that had a display of bottles they found?

Any idea what they are doing in the second picture?  Some kind of canopy or something?

Looks like they are using a light grey slate for the main street square in front of the building.  I wonder how long it will stay nice

This one seems to be going faster, probably because no basement parking.  It'll be interesting to see which one opens first

I think they have 2 or 3.  They are working on the sidewalk on main right now, so that may delay the masonry work - can't do two things at a time

Yeah and block 334 started with a parking lot

Most things I've heard are disbelief that this will be actually built

Wow.

So let me get this straight. A structure like this is proposed to hold more cars and reduce traffic and the general concensus is that this is a great idea, we have the money for this, people are all for it, there is no opposition from local congressman or senators.

But if we were to build the exact same structures over our freeways or over the HOV lanes of I-10, 45, or 288 and then.......PUT A TRAIN ON IT that holds way more people than cars do, and SUDDENLY it's a HORRIBLE idea, it's completely not feasible, we DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR IT, and it would be a HORRIBLE APPROPRIATION of funds to spend any money on it, do I have that about right?

Man, **** **** ****.

Sounds about right.  More people would benefit from a train (because a train can hold more people).  Therefore you get more people moved per dollar.  This would be a smart decision.  The government is making the decision.  Therefore we get the highway lanes

It's that final dollar that pushed the winner's bid over the edge

This will definitely take land and more of it, unlikely to follow any existing easements, and won't face the same widespread opposition 

Agreed, I really don't see this as improving much at all. Looks like a bus lane that they've converted into a general express lane on account of the opposition to the Post Oak busway.

The Post Oak busway looks to be a separate structure from this.  I can't imagine why they would bother having 2 lanes at any point if there are no exits and the beginning and end are both single lane ramps.  It's almost like they were going to have it go longer distance or connect to 59 or 10 and changed their mind before going to the public

On the dual-signed interstate thing:

I-75/I-64 are dual signed outside Lexington KY https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0918376,-84.4773567,11.76z

I-35/I-410 are dual signed in San Antonio https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4809618,-98.3599459,12.34z

I-75/I-71 are dual signed south of Cincinatti https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9599493,-84.6211163,11.44z

Looking at the map, I suspect an I-14 would follow I-35 in Temple, but it could just as easily bypass Temple and intersect 35 where 190 splits off to the west. https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0681987,-97.4049968,13.46z

Hey look alleys!

Found something interesting in a case online from searching "Kirby Main Street"

https://casetext.com/case/jones-v-city-of-houston

 

 

 That Main street through said addition was dedicated by John H. Kirby, who laid out the same, to be a street 60 feet in width.

Today's demolition report on Swamplot included what looked like Recenter, across from 3800 Main.  It says something about "Kirby Main Street" which doesn't make sense really, seeing as Kirby is way west of there.  Anyone know what it's for?

http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-recentering-removal/2015-12-10/

Wired did a piece on an example of micro apartments in New York

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/nys-first-micro-apartments-actually-look-kinda-comfortable/

It does look like it should be a good amount of room for one person, but I just have to wonder - why isn't this in downtown?