Metro Matt

One way or another we're going to end up supporting these people for a long time to come & guess who will foot the bill once FEMA money runs out? All of a sudden you'll start noticing the cost of living going way up in this once lowest cost of living city.

I was just watching CNN HLN's about this, and Jim Pruitt, who is a talk show host, and a gun store owner, is asking Houstonians to arm themselves against Katrina Evacuees.

He is basically saying that once the FEMA money runs out, the crime levels will increase.

True statement?

Its not just him saying that, it was said by a actual NOLA stating that if he had to he would commit a robbery for some money.

The frenetic pedestrian environment of Diho, Sin Chao and some of the other neighboring shopping centers of New Chinatown has no real equal that I've noticed in the Metroplex. I've always gotten a rush getting an outdoor table at the shaved ice place Star Snow in New Chinatown and watching people walk all over the sidewalks and lots on a Friday or Saturday night in the evening! I've never noticed this kind of action in Asian-friendly Richardson up in the Metroplex.

I completely agree with you, but Houston's Asian areas are more "dense" & developed than what you find in Richardson, Garland, Carrollton, Arlington, Irving, & Haltom City. There are only like 3 distinctly Asian districts in Houston, where in DFW you have more of them, but they're a lot less developed & so spread out across the metro area.

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I was reffering to Southeastern Asians & Koreans, not Indian.

Captain Wick's in Seabrook is the one owned by my friends parents, they also own another seafood place down the road from there.

If you want 80's music go to Drink Houston on Friday nights when 106.9 The Point broadcasts live from the 8.0 Retro room.

You're missing one, its off the Eastex Freeway & 1960 in a shopping center.

Tuff Pinoy off Veterans Memorial closed up last I heard.

I've had Fillipinana & its very tastey

One of my good buddys has a friend that owns 2 seafood restraunts in Clearlake & they are Pinoy, I don't know if those are the ones you were reffering to or not.

Are you looking for a DJ? I'll spin almost anything except Hip Pop.

Plastic

Raves have been around in the United States since the early 90's. They peaked in popularity between 1999-2001. Throwing these types of "parties" on any large scale in Texas is illegal due to various laws being passed meant to ban raves. There are still parties that take place every now & then, but its more underground like it used to be before the "Kandy Kids" killed the scene.

Promoters these days are just too affraid (and with good reason) to throw massive parties anymore in an uncontrolled environment. The crowds have gotten a lot smaller & so have the venues.

Think of it this way Plastic...

Ravers in the 90's were what the Hippy generation was in the 60's. Everything is constantly evolving musically & culturally...nothing stays the same.

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Meanwhile, in the rest of the world...

Discussions of architecture and urban issues in other cities within the United States and abroad.

This thread has nothing to do with buildings going up in the city of Houston, TX.

This thread is in the wrong forum

The Grab in downtown usually has live bands or Dj's.

The Dallas skyline is big, but Houston's dwarfs it in height & number of buildings. Houston's downtown is more comparible with Los Angeles, while Dallas is more on par with Denver. If it wasn't for Houston's lack of zoning laws, allowing multiple skylines to be scattered through out the city, the downtown core would be even more impressive than it already is & would look like a smaller Chicago. There are some skyline views around town that capture this effect when you can see all of the skylines in Houston line up together perfectly to form one breath taking sight.

Houston's 3rd tallest skyscraper, Williams Tower is just a few feet shy of being as tall as the tallest in Dallas. The skylines of Houston make Dallas look small in comparison.

I guess it doesn't matter whether there is actually anything Chinese left about Chinatown, as long as we keep the cool name in a defunct neighborhood that within ten years will demographically be upper middle-class loft & townhome owners.

I wonder how many Asians here in Houston care that there used to be a Chinatown downtown? I could understand the fight for a historical Chinatown or Asian market downtown if it was led by the Asian community. However, at the rate of constuction out there on Bellaire, I don't think they (Asian investors, realtors, contractors, and residents) really care.

Its the older generation of Chinese & Vietnamese immigrants in Houston, the ones that have been here for decades already, raised their kids here whom have kids of their own, that keep what little is left of Old Chinatown alive. You would be suprised at just how many of the younger generations don't even know such an area even exists in downtown, its really pathetic.

With property being so much cheaper than anything near downtown, most Asian business owners choose to relocate to the far Southwest areas of Bellaire & beyond where everything is booming. Its also doesn't help that Old Chinatown is seperated from downtown by 59.

Ultimately, the point is that these comparisons are not very meaningful given the differences in geographic size. What really matters is the urbanized area - with which Houston and Dallas are very similar.

Exactly...

Just take a look at any satellite space images of Texas at night & you can clearly see the areas of Houston & D/FW are almost equally lit up with lights.

Back in the 80s when I was a student at Rice, a buddy of mine and I decided to go up as high as we could in Transco..........

We rode up to the top floor and found a stairwell that led even higher...... we climbed and climbed up until we found ourselves right there next to the motor that drove the spotlight around! And the pyramid roof of the very top was right over our heads. We could not have climbed any higher.

It was odd because the spotlight itself, whose beam we had seen night after night shining its great arc across the wide, flat expanses of our restless, beloved city, apparently emanated from a smallish beacon only about the size of a TV set.

Has anyone else ventured so high in Transco? This all predates 9/11, of course............

OMG!!! I'm lost for words! You are one lucky person, I'm sure the only people that have ever done that before are the ones that maintain the beacon.

The Greenspoint area has some of the highest crime on the Northside of Houston, nuff said...

I really like the Greenspoint skyline though, if only the city would step up efforts to eradicate the riff raff & make it more urban & less suburban feeling. I wish Metro would hurry up and expand the light rail all the way to Greenspoint & Bush Interconntinental Airport, that would be a MAJOR step in rehabilitating this once nice area. The mall itself has become a majority Hispanic & Black hang out, you deffinitely won't see any White or Asian people there. I made the mistake of going in Sears one time & if you don't speak spanish, you'll have a hard time getting any kind of assistance finding something if you need it.

I heard they were going to double its height.

Only in your dreams...

I know one thing for sure is I45 North of Downtown, all the way past The Woodlands is getting pine trees planted like crazy in the once barren grassy areas between the freeway & the feeder road. As a matter of fact, I see workers tilling up the dirt & planting them almost every day. I'll try to get some pix tommorrow for y'all.

There seems to be a lot of people hyped up about this latest news, I just hope most of you aren't diagnosed as clinically depressed when it doesn't pan out as the tower it was said to be. More than likely IMO, if this project does get built, it will be a much smaller building or buildings & possibly taller than the current tallest, but who knows....maybe this is one of those you see it once in your life type deals

A 900 footer surrounded by 200-500 footers? Its gonna be like a smaller, but denser Uptown Houston with pedestrian life at street level! This tower will deffinitely have that same over powering effect on the skyline that Williams Tower has, which for a town the size of Fort Worth might look rediculous, Houston can pull it off because of the no-zoning laws & its enormous size. I say build something smaller, like in the 600-700 foot range, Fort Worth doesn't have enough buildings to compliment such a structure.

I like how 1000 Main can change its lighting scheme on the top to make it pulsate, change colors, or move around the building. It kinda reminds me of what Reunion Tower in Dallas does, but with color & a box, instead of a sphere. On the lower sides of 1000 Main there are some cool looking glass squares that illuminate different colors too.

I live in far NW Houston & there are some very wooded areas around here. Basically any where on the Nortwest, North, Northeast, & East side are going to have the most trees, besides the Memorial area which is basically a Forest planted right in the middle of a huge metropolis. The further south of Houston you go, it becomes coastal plains, & going west towards Katy you have flat prairie farm land.

Yes, Houston for being the 4th largest city, as a whole is very dense with greenery. Another large city that comes to mind is Atlanta which is VERY green.

If you're going to be here on a Saturday between 10 Am - 2 PM & you want Asian food, be sure to get some delicious Dim Sum at any of these places...

http://www.chinatownconnection.com/dimsumres.htm

Texaco Heritage Tower had the office lights lit up in the shape of a huge star a few weeks ago, kinda like the way they had the number 38 for the Super Bowl.