LTAWACS

Everyone is missing it.

I work downtown and live nearby - downtown will never be vibrant (except for the tunnels/park shops at lunch) because of all the homeless and vagrants. At least a few times a week, I am having to push off beggers walking to lunch with co-workers.

The city refuses to deal with the problem. It's freakin unreal over near the ballpark. I've seen hundreds just sleeping on the side of the road and in every corner. There are several 1000 downtown because thats where all the handouts are located (particularly near the ballpark). What the city and all the churches that come down there to feed them dont get is that they just make the problem worse.

I wouldn't give anyone anything - they should make them earn it somehow.

I agree with you. They spread filth, disease, and bad morals to everyone around them. I never give them anything. Those churches that come to downtown from way in the hell out there (katy) should be castigated.

Barf.

They look good.

Perhaps they meant 600,000 square feet. I think that would be the size of... maybe discovery tower... I think the Chase tower is 1.1 mil... so around half that size.

Where is that old b@%(^#rd Lanny anyway?

I *think* it might have been a proposal for Enron back in the day

OR

It was a proposal for... HL&P, Entex - or whatever the light company was back then.

But 256 Block proposal is correct.

I doubt the very merits of this story.

Hrm... I read an article where the author was expecting some kind of alcohol being made on-site. Very entertaining.

hey there.

I am not sure how I feel about distillary 25 25 yet ( houston ave and white oak), but I do remember some kind of Veggie thing on the menu and you will be overwhelmed with wall to wall TV's.

I think it's not really a distillery.

77007, welcome to 77007.

lol

Texas City is a lot closer to me than GlenWood Pines out in the middle of nowhere on 290. Ugh.

So when are these things going up?

Are you serious? UGH!

Ah... I see now.

Interesting...

It looks bigger than that allen center building on the left.

LOL

Yes, the Transwestern/Kirksey team was one of the final four selected by METRO from dozens of applicants to present competing plans. In 2006, I think it was. After each of these firms had spent gobs of money to plan a development that only might have been selected (which is your cue that METRO was fully planning on selling the land below market value), an engineering report came out that determined that METRO's seven-figure expenditure to over-engineer the transit center so that a highrise could be built directly on top of it without interrupting service was wholly inadequate to that purpose. All of the proposed projects were too tall and too heavy to be feasible on the site. By that time, however, the point was moot. METRO had not communicated their intent to build an under-parked highrise with the Texas Medical Center, Inc. (per a written agreement) and so the TMC exercised their right to veto the project.

Is there anything - ANYTHING - the Metro cannot bungle?

The first shot is from one of the UHD parking lots. The largest one right before that bridge on Main/North Main.

I'm certain the first few shots of the vid are from an empty field next to one of the warehouses at McCall St @ Shiloh St.

For sure man. They had fireworks but they weren't as high as I wanted them to be.

They do this because they don't want ppl to get to see them for free.

How did it go?

Looks more like the new Taurus' little brother.

Houston city pass eh? Interesting.

not sure. one thing that popped into mind is that it's always been there... trailer parks need lots of land. cheap land. so back in the day when this thing started Missouri city and Stafford where not all the hype ppl think they are now.