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Looks nice!

It's funny though ... the name translates in Spanish to "we have a place"... :-)

I wonder how many units ...

Looks good, thanks for the update.

I must protest the location.

Reminds me of the anadarko tower.

I wonder what percentage of metro Houstonians will ever visit this place... if it ever gets off the ground.

If one were to draw a circle of radius 5 - 10 - 15 - 20 - 25+ miles with this thing in the center... how would the visitor's numbers plot against their home addresses... What would the distribution curve look like?

I've noticed that the greyhound busses have moved to the old star furniture parking lot on I45.

Why would they do that? Is the station moving there? I thought that part of town was "up-and-coming"?

Awesome news! I usually go here on the weekends. Hopefully they'll sign a decent watch authorized dealer.

Let's all be nice here, eh?

Not yet, but exciting things are about to happen to the Stowers building.

Oh? Do tell.

Is it just me or does that seem like a small area for retail?

All the essentials (liquor, cigarettes, beer) will not take up too much space. I imagine most customers will be residents.

Also, it's impossible to believe that they could not obtain a real picture and carefully chop their building onto it.

Not too bad. It's funny though, it looks like a building that could be practically anything: library, college lecture hall, offices,

More like a jail.

I think it's horrifying. Ugh.

Looks very nice. What happened to the other building u posted?

Actually that's the way a normal distribution works. If we assume intelligence to be measurable and plotted on a bell curve then exactly half of the population would be to the left of center (dumber, as you say) and the other half would be to the right of center or smarter.

However I seriously doubt there is any correlation between the name of one's neighborhood "starting with "wood" or ending with "land" or containing the words "master planned"" and the measure of one's intelligence. Particularly considering the fluidity with which many people change neighborhoods throughout their lives, i.e. I used to live in the city of Houston now I live in Cinco Ranch. Therefore I am now less intelligent than I was or was significantly below the mean when I lived in the city and this lack of intelligence caused my move to the "master planned" community.

But what do I know? I live in "the burbs" so I am therefore ignorant and awful and have no valid opinions. At least as far as many on this site are concerned.

I know I'm off track and shouldn't bother but some times I like to rant also. What can ya do?

Relax. I was being facetious. Mostly.

The point I was attempting to make is that those in/from the outer reaches of a metro area tend to know lesd about inner city issues, planning, etc.

I'm probably less worked up about it than you think, but you're just the latest in a long parade of people on here who have tried to stifle conversation with this "What're ya gonna do about it?" line. The worst of them answered every opinion with a professorial lecture on neo-liberal market economics, and you aren't nearly as bad as that. But I do think that a vigorous and healthy climate of architectural discussion and opinion ultimately does affect what developers do, otherwise they wouldn't keep doing things here that would never fly in cities that care more about the interaction between public spaces (like Market Square) and the built environment.

The way this building is site planned, you'd think Market Square was on the Louisiana Street side rather than the Milam side. No developer in his right mind would try disrespecting an important square like that in Boston or New York or even Philadelphia; the public outcry would make his life miserable. And for good reason. Quality spaces are important to the public, and the public needs to guard them carefully.

Perhaps it is unfortunate that half of the public are dumber than the average American. And around here, half of them are from places that start with "wood" or end with "land" or contain the words "master planned". Some even think the Galleria is downtown.

It is. By 2 feet.

Ah... Thanks for clarifying.

Exactly what I was thinking!

501'

Are u sure? I thought Huntingdon was still tallest.

When are those going up? What part of town

In what measure? Land area? Population?

Reminds me of that proposed tower fir Denver. E really tall and skinny one.

I've not seen that before. Was this some kind of secret?

its about time midtown starts to make a presence in the sky... hopefully this trend continues so we can start to work on connecting downtowns skyline with the TMCs skyline through midtown and the museum district.

I've been saying this for years! What can we do to make this happen?

Who is Kramer?

Why not both? And why not mixed use?

I regularly grimace at your posts... but this one picture is one of the best I've ever seen - aside from Priyanka Chopra.

Good photo, man. Keep it up. :-)

Bam!

Nice!