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    Yeah, I think this is one of the few streets most driver's couldn't care much about. Unlike closing the Spur access in Midtown, which got a lot of resistance from drivers and local business, I don't think any driver will care because no one uses that street to go anywhere fast. And so few businesses, if any, use Main street as their main entrance/access point (the Hotels, maybe?). Pre-Covid people walked in the street for those three blocks of Main where the bars are anyway, making traffic miserable. These bars are going to need the street space real soon when more people get vaxxed and all of a sudden every person over 21 will be wanting to get a drink again at a bar. Its already sort of happening, which is why we're seeing Pastry War re-open finally. Big fan of all of this.
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    Holy S...they are taking down Almeda St.'s bridges? What is the timeline on that? Man, I can't remember the last time the city attacked infrastructure issues like this head on and so rapidly. I hope this does help with flooding.
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    I dunno what y'all are talking about, I like the use of different motifs represented by the glass. What y'all probably aren't thinking about is that in a multi-building development, you'll always want a building that uses all of the types of glass used by the other buildings. It kind of ties the whole development together, like a coda. That building is a coda.
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    omg, the Jury building is back? I never thought I'd see the day. An unintended consequence of that thing being destroyed was the square was kind of lifeless, whereas before you'd see workers and lawyers and stuff eat/hanging out over there. It's actually a nice space, hope people utilize it more. Glad its finally redone.
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    This is probably a dumb question, but why let all the grass grow if you were going to raze it all again? Was it to prep the soil or something?
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    The people standing in that pic gives it great perspective. Also, I thought for something of this size it would take years, but they are MOVING. If the endcaps are already on site as they said on reddit, the slowdown in traffic must be helping this along, right? A person working on the project on reddit said they've already brought in the end caps and someone else mentioned "Yeah our company installed the arches we finished the longer sections last week so it’s these two that are 280’ long and I think the longer sections are 420’ long" I checked memorial's page about this, I didn't see actual mention of the length of the tunnels, but that is massive. Just short of the length of two football fields. And yeah, that digging is for the creek that @Tritonmentioned:
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    From Reddit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNG39Nqp8kv/ The second picture really shows how huge this is going to be. Immediately will jump towards the top of "if you're in Houston, you must go see/do X" type lists. If the Eastern glades is any indication (its awesome), I have no doubt this is going to be spectacular. The views alone will make it worth it.
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    Is this going in that amazing looking space with all the chairs that faces binz/bissonnet? A michelin star chef? Food in Houston is seriously going places, what an amazing get by the Museum.
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    @HNathoo is right, they paved over the lot next to them and it makes sense since they have slowly migrated the construction equipment over to the garage lot and they don't seem to be in a huge hurry to star that. I feel like you're already seeing quite a few apartments pop up within half a mile of the redline sort of anticipating demand like this, which I think is purposeful because it helps them market and raises their walkability/transit scores. And I'm not sure the type of people basing their operations out of the Ion are really looking to buy or rent on 1-10 by 99.
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    I mean, this place closed back in 2015/2016 and served dope seafood, seemed to do with inability to pay back rent. https://www.zagat.com/r/eleven-xi-restaurant-bar-houston Man, Austin street will be blowing up if they get a nice restaurant and bar along with gypsy poet, which is already kind of a neighborhood fave.
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    I would imagine now that the vaccine is going to be available to all adults starting next week, everyone wants to get their developments going ASAP to be there when the local economy starts to hum again and the general public feels completely safe going back to restaurants, bars, and dentists and other non-ER/important surgery type medical offices. I know we don't track these types of things here, but there have been quite a few remodeling of smaller office spaces in Midtown into things like pain clinics and mini imagine centers lately. Excited for this, those bars/restaurants will be busy just from the people living on that side of Midtown, saying nothing of all the clients coming through there.
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    This came up when the Museum district people were fighting the walkable and transit oriented ordinances' applications to the area. As @wilcal mentions, no one has and it is indeed due to the fact that they hadn't even put together the application process as of August of last year. And the process will take time because to get areas to sign up, it sounded like the city will be sending reps to the neighborhoods to garner interest and actual sign ups. During the Museum district hearings there were 2-4 (can't remember) developers who showed up to advocate for neighborhoods to sign up, so it seems the business interests at least in part aligns with the city's interests.
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    Yeah Houston is right, they have crews out there intermittently. I saw one two weekends ago early morning. Are the vines even a city thing? I assumed it was the local super-neighborhood given how robust the vines are and the amount of trees. I don't think the vines need to change at all, they'll pop back. That part of 59 is the greenest (but not right now) highway we have, what could we change it to? The other contender for green stretch of highway is 610 by the galleria during the summer when all the trees are at their peak.
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    My favorite part of all this is the park will go into STCL promo materials as "enjoy the heart of downtown Houston," or they will host events at the park. I hope they make some kind of wall that seals off the parking lot from the park, and grow some greenery on it. Maybe a wall of trees, that would be cool. Otherwise it will be VERY on-brand for Houston to have this beautiful park that is built around a very visible parking lot you can't park in.
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    Where would the poorly driven ubers drop people off at?!!? Pre-pandemic it was wild to me how many uber drivers weren't familiar with downtown and would try to drive right up to the main street to drop people off. I had two drivers mid 2019-early 2020 go the wrong way on one way streets in midtown.
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    Do HOV lanes actually work? Is there evidence of that? I don't understand why we keep building HOV lanes when I'm on a traffic packed 45/288 and I'm like one of a handful of cars zooming into town.
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    Tx-Dot's proposal, outside of the elevated bus lane (which would be cool to see), is so dumb. I also am impressed by them wanting to add lanes and do other construction stuff right on the doorstep of the Heights. Like, none of this makes a nice area any better and in fact just does more to increase car related incidents and all the externalities that come with living near a massive highway. Living most of my life near freeways and feeder roads in less desirable parts of Houston, I genuinely thought increased lanes on highways and stuff didn't happen when you got closer to more affluent areas. The only piece of this part of I-10 that gives me headaches otw home is getting on 45. Other than that, this part of i-10 doesn't feel as busy as some other freeways around town.
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    Why does that glass look so attractive? Is it the color of the glass, or is it because its new? I can't tell, but that brick plus that glass is gonna look great. Also, I know we lamented the loss of the old library, and some part of me does too, but a rooftop reading deck sounds great.
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    Yo, that is some great planning. It looks like they are getting at least some of what they want. Bayou Place has always seemed odd, I did not know it was converted from an old convention center. I swear, Blue Fish made more money from attorneys who couldn't find parking and just paid to valet than what they made from serving actual food. Would love to see that place go, its kinda whatever. But please have a small screen theater over there. Its nice to be able to go there for movies.
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    Gonna be real sad if those things are parking lots for long. I know people will say you can drink across the highway, but the whole point is to, you know, be around the park doing stuff, maybe stop in at the merch store before going to grab a drink. I wonder if they will do like a foodtruck park in those lots on game days, that would be cool. Otherwise, 4 years is a long time to wait.
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    This seems like a lot to me, but I'm not quite an airport/airline expert like y'all are. I used to travel a lot, and was kind of embarrassed by both Houston airports until the reno's in HOU were done, then it just left IAH (minus terminal B). I liked the United wing of IAH, but everything else felt like it was from the 90s. I saw the video and the renderings from that pdf @Houston19514 posted, so is this a massive overhaul of the airport, or just an update? Can I finally be happy with my city's international airport? Plus, is the new baggage system a big deal?
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    Hines' developments around town have been super mindful of bikes and bike storage, I'll go out on a limb here and the lane and bike usage in general will be heavily integrated. Especially so given what they are aspiring to with this development. Doesn't the Tap basically die right there anyway though once you get across 288?
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    Thinking about this, the area around the stadium has always been a very affordable gameday experience, especially those two bars. Alcohol/food was reasonable, and atmosphere was generally v relaxed. While I hope they build something exceptional and inviting, I also hope they don't lose sight of the general astros fan. It can't all be 8 dollars beers and 15 dollar craft burgers for the faithful showing up at 1 on a Tuesday or a Fri/Saturday game during a season when they suck (and the astros have had more than a few of those). The dynamo organically have a great gameday experience because the bars around it satisfy multiple price points and offer different gameday experiences. Whatever they build, hopefully its robust enough to make a person say "we have to get there 2-3 hours early, I want to eat at X and drink at Y and if we're a little late getting inside thats OK because they show the game in the plaza." Without destroying their wallets.
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    all that broken concrete...is this really Houston 😭 I hope this reno is massively successful, then we see some tree's around this area and you might actually see joggers and what not actually taking the city in at < 30mph.
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    For real. The two/three tone stone looks great from the highway, and those balconies look nice from the street. I had low expectations, for some reason, but this looks like a good addition. Also, check that rendering, museum district has to be nearing some heightened (for Houston) amount of density, right? You'd think at some point it would start to attract some kind of retail or something.
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