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    They just need to toss a pilates/crossfit/barre place in there and I think developers could kinda just dust their hands off, in addition to the Montrose collective, and know that most residents would never leave the area ever again (people would just request to work from home).
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    I just said "oh my good god" out loud to that. This plus the Montrose Collective is too much for my brain to process. This could be real right? Like, maybe real? Is there a gofundme to help them out?
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    They had 4 of those rotating concrete trucks parked there early this morning. It seems like they were sending concrete up onto the top of the building since they had one of those daddy long legs-concrete mover that I've seen in pics of other construction sites. They've been moving super quick, rain or shine. They really want to meet that deadline.
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    La branch is getting worked on as we speak. I'm not sure if they are done paving or putting in new crosswalks, but they have been hard at it.
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    Those look kind of like the David Weekly townhomes you see in Midtown and the Heights. I ....like it? Alot of people focus on apartments and condos coming in the loop, but seeing such tight townhome in-fill is just as good if not better because it shows that Houston residents can embrace a house that isn't a 2500 sq foot house on a fifth of an acre. And it shows full families moving into these areas. Exciting!
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    Thats how you know they are going to be serving the best food and potentially have some late night snacks.
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    First, the city made Main and its surrounding areas nicer so attorneys could enjoy their brand new civil and criminal courthouse and tap into some great drinks and food pre, during, and post trial. Now they are putting in this park so going to the federal courthouse will be a relaxing experience and help attorneys get their mind right before going to court. I dunno which law firms and attorneys have been donating to make this possible, but god bless them!
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    My god, I haven't thought about Bayou Center in years. Remember when they would run all those lame clubs out of there? I agree, an Alamo Drafthouse downtown within a 10-15 min walk from the light-rail would destroy worlds. The market would be downtown/midtown/third ward/second ward/east downtown residents, your 100k downtown workers some of whom may want to catch a date/movie at Alamo before going home, and the constant influx of people at those hotels. The potential reminds me of the sawyer heights Target, where you go there on a Wednesday night at 8pm and you're like how are they out of dove soap (actually happened to me before). Just mind-boggingly busy.
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    Yeah I went to the November meeting and do live and own a place in the neighborhood and it is a bit of a mischaracterization . MPNA really, really wants to execute this Caroline Pedestrian-friendly Promenade vision of theirs (basically making Caroline this pedestrian-biking-running friendly street from the park to 59), which I think is a good thing but they are a bit narrow-viewed when it comes to that since I think in their mind this should solve the needs for bike lanes and other things the city wants to do in the area. I do understand why the Museums feel that way about the parking situation, the wait and see, but to be honest, its not like the areas around the train are being utilized now anyway. Everyday I go home and I'm like, can we get rid of the empty parking lots and build a multi-story garage with GFR plsssssss. I don't really understand the residential buffering thing, but I am a lot younger than my neighbors. Its almost like they're scared of something, when they should in fact embrace that this pocket of residential area could become some of the densest in the city if they just let it (its well on its way now with the apartments by the park, Southmore, boone manor, the new condos, and potentially the X if it gets built). And they just got their parking ordinance passed (got the letter in the mail) so I thought that has been solved? I always thought they wanted to be like old heights, but its more and more like they want to be west U.
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    By November? What in the what? That is fast. Also, Gensler and Harvey just lining up job after job and grinding these ambitious timeframes to try and get this work done. Its great that such a worthy cause and organization is getting the space it deserves.
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    Mann owns all that space? However long he's had it, he's going to get a heck of a pay-day. New, state of the art medical space close to the the med center but not directly in it so their patients can find parking a bit easier and it has #views? He's going to to be fighting off tenants who have been rotting away on south Fanin and other "close but not quite in the med center" office buildings with a stick. The asset and land only goes up as the Ion development matures. And incredibly he actually cares about what he's building and what it looks like. Like @Luminare said, having one consistent, maybe a little vain, vision that actually cares is exciting. The one thing is that the museum district, outside of Zaza and that motel/hotel across 288 on binz, doesn't really have a hotel space. Which is an intriguing part the proposed tower. I always wondered why the MD didn't have more hotel/motels. When I have friends visit and they stay in that area or in Midtown, its usually through Air BnB at the Southmore or townhouse in Midtown.
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    The long wait is over: https://abc13.com/traffic/bagby-street-remodeling-construction-set-to-last-until-2021/5829293/ Construction on Bagby is supposed to start this Saturday, January 11. I don't know how Nature feels about that, since Houston is supposed to have severe, crazy Houston weather on Saturday, but at least its starting now! I did not know it includes an upgrade to the drainage system and such in that area. We're going to have all these separate bike/pedestrian lanes and pocket parks across the city after this, Houston just needs a way to link East Downtown/Midtown to the Lamar/Bagby Spine.
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    Had a client in real estate the other day mention that he can't remember the last time there were so many cranes within the 610 loop. He said mayyyyybe 06-07. Then we joked that its still 5 cranes less than Austin at any given time. As a younger person who remembers old DT and old 3rd ward, these pictures are nuts. Thank y'all for them.
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    Krispy Kreme! Yes! Big Gulps! The best! The Midtown/Museum District is where its at baby, we're coming up! Best surprise of the year on HAIF.
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    "Physician ownership/investment" opportunities means HCA isn't the sole lessor in the building because they don't offer those types of investments for physicians. So it must mean this PE/IB company has some relationships in the med community they are looking to use. Those type of guys wouldn't build a single floor unless there have been other significant commits. So we're at least getting the MOB's. If built nicely, those are somewhat of a game changer because now they'll occupy what are now empty lots. But what a game changer a tower with GFR would be, jeez. And I guess they are making a mini green space? Thats cool.
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    What is the time frame on all of this? 10 years? Thats almost impossible to imagine with the way that area is now. I finally know how some of the older members on the forum feel! I like the synergy of this with the montrose collective building. Both incorporating impressive, by Houston standards, amounts of green in and around the buildings. The modernity of these designs almost feel like they are somehow even more modern than the stuff going up in TMC3.
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    This x100. People in the neighborhood clamor for that stuff. I mean, they begged the Boone Manor people to let museum district residents pay the developer to use the apartment gym. And they begged them to let the cafe in the apartment be GFR. The need is pretty clearly there, I'm not quite sure what the hold up is.
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    That looks like your basic multi-family option in the Sims.
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    Agreed with this 100%. With the opening of the foodhalls, I was wondering about conservatory's viability, and talking to the pho guys they said it had slowed a little bit. This gives them a chance to breathe and serve a community in need of late night eats. But I do hope the space is being preserved for other cool stuff.
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    For stuff like this, parking mins going away would primarily affect the amount of parking allocated to any retail within the building, right?
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    I have two thoughts that I've been mulling: 1) Considering how long its taken 288 and 610 to finish various projects (Post Oak exit says hello), is it fair to worry about the length of time this construction will take? This is probably going to take forever and a day to do during a time period where Houston is finally experiencing the type of densifying development growth you'd expect out of a city so large. Maybe do a smaller phase to see how that goes and what disruption that brings? I have zero confidence in any timelines that have been put out. 2) But then again, I do see the benefits of giving easier access to downtown from various suburbs. I feel like TxDot's selling point to why this works, to me, is Klyde Warren Park being the game changer for Dallas. This whole project change so much of what is Houston that it almost gives one anxiety to think about a project this big. However, Klyde Warren worked because of how disconnected the area towards Elm street and the farmer's market was getting from Downtown Dallas. There was no cohesion, and the thing that burying did was bring those communities together, let people who worked in Downtown (like myself back then) let out a sigh of relief that they weren't working in this barren concrete wasteland of excessively priced food and Concrete Cowboys, and partially shift the homeless away from that part of DT to make people feel safer about living there (and people certainly started moving into those condos and apartments since then). Burying a freeway and creating a huge park did all of that for DT Dallas. But if you don't get the parks, or the capped areas aren't utilized in a non-car centric fashion, then haven't you lost a significant portion of why this is worth doing?
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    Maybe I'm just younger, and grew up in apartments, but why do people hate high-end apartments? I could see why someone in a nice area would be upset at "affordable" housing, but the apartments in such an area would be higher end so...whats the issue? Is it just as simple as the bolded?
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    That looks fantastic. I'd take this every day of the week and twice on Sunday. The colors are dynamic, the stone is cool, and the greenery is well dispersed throughout the development. Love the idea of that walk-way between the buildings. I was walking to and around Hermann Park yesterday and it reminded me of how conditioned some of those drivers are to stopping for pedestrians going to and from the park on Crawford Street. You don't get that level of conditioning even at Memorial park, but I think developments like this will go a long way to adding enough foot traffic to get people in Montrose conditioned to the fact that they need to be looking out for pedestrians. I do love the building the library is currently in but putting the library in here may make it easier for people with kids/groups of people to go to the library. Ate at one of places in the Collective? Mosey on over to the library to check stuff out. Right now if you eat/go anywhere in montrose you have to get into a car and hope you get decent parking. I think the accessibility goes up.
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    Something is different. I think it’s 59 between midtown and Museum D. And potentially issues with the one between the montrose and Museum D.
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    Based on the movement in the Park/Museum area, I felt like this was going to be built eventually by someone. Seemingly anything near the three big parks in the loop is going to be built because those areas, as someone pointed out in another thread, are just now correcting for the under-development that occurred over the years. People like parks. Boomtown, to me, would be like the Ion (if it was private) or some of the Australian developer's eventual buildings (Condos/Hotel). If Houston can just make it 2021 and then TMC3 starts to get going, is it really a boom or just the new normal.
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