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    Rodeway Inn
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    Remington (Rosewood)… Ritz… Regis. I sense a pattern.
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    The St. Regis started off as a Ritz-Carlton. I don’t remember how long it remained a Ritz-Carlton.
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    My dad worked in that building when it first opened. While visiting him to see the building, we went up to the top (Oooh! Ear-popping elevator!) and I got a Mold-A-Rama Humble Building. What I really wanted was a Mold-A-Rama Domed Stadium. 😡
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    Somebody tell Ralph it's 44 stories, not 45. And it was completed in 1963, not '62. I mean, really! 😉😄
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    Just found this from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/05/houston-texas-jesse-h-jones-the-endowment-headquarters
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    IKR! I thought there were building codes prohibiting that.
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    “We acquire, develop and mange…”. 😮 Like we really need any more mangy buildings. From the same link: 2120 Post Oak Blvd. Deiso Moss is developing a 43 story mixed use tower on the coveted Post Oak Blvd in Houston, TX. The tower will consist of 25,000SF of retail, 100,000 square feet of office and 350 multi family apartments. How many families in each apartment? More than three is considered a downscale elegance.
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    I doubt it. Which is a good reason not to put any of them directly on Montrose Blvd.
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    “Vertical banding” is such a nice way to describe corrugated metal.
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    A year late, but, it is Rockefeller's.
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    And maybe a few sidewalks... without parked cars blocking them... that continue without just disappearing. And no ditches along the street like Rice Military would be an improvement.
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    What's interesting is, when I first starting going back to Houston (as often as I possibly could) after (unwillingly) moving to Alamo Town, it struck me how much denser and "tighter" Houston feels than SA. Not just downtown, but all over the Inner Loop. It first really struck me on Waugh, driving from Memorial to my friends' place in Montrose. ETA:Let me add that Downtown San Antonio is a totally different story.
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    😄 Yeah, I've heard that schpiel before. Listen, much as I'm loathe to admit it, I'm an old-timer Houstonian. The old-timer part is what I don't like admitting. My earliest memory of my hometown is when we moved back in 1962. Rome is organic. Houston is a mess. But, like the drunken mess of an uncle who looks and sounds like Bill the Cat, it's our mess and we love it. Most of the time. Some of the time. Sort of. OK, we know where to find the good stuff and love the food. And it's getting better. Except for that cr@ppy corrugated metal storage box.
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    💄on a 🐖
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    As I said, I was responding to the hotel’s ad. If I were a guest enjoying the pool area, I’d much rather see that skyline view than look at a fairly nondescript apartment tower. Not everything is about what I personally want. I doubt I will ever stay at that hotel, so yeah, for me personally, on the street or in Discovery Green, I prefer the new tower there. But as views from the hotel go, it kills what they had. ETA: I suppose the view of the pool is what “never gets old” to them. Honestly, I cringed when I first saw they were going to have a Texas-shaped pool. I’d rather see the skyline than the pool. I feel much more connected to Houston than I do to Texas.
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    It specifically appeals to the types of people who don't want "downscale elegances."
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    HOLY CR@P! Sometimes I think Houston developers should be officially designated “domestic terrorists.”
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    Pardon my ignorance on this, I haven’t been following this thread. Is this really being built… a self-storage on Montrose next to the bridge? Honestly, this is the kind of thing that happens so often in Houston and makes me feel more a more like giving up on my hometown. 😩 NEVER MIND! I didn’t make it to the last page. I see it’s already there!
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    It would have been terrible, although it would have made a great location for filming movies about dystopian futures.
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    I miss Sun Deluxe and Lucky Inn and the rest of old Chinatown so much. Around 1976, Sun Deluxe was the place that taught me that I actually DID love Chinese food after the terrible stuff I had when I was a kid.
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    Honestly, I find that mystifying. Something could have been built there that didn’t block the view. But anyway, my comment was in response to the hotel’s advertisement stating the view never gets old. My response to that is there is no view anymore. The terrific view from the pool area especially has been totally obliterated. Again, I’m responding to the hotel’s ad.
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    Are you guys kidding? (I’m including emoji reactions to my post.) I guess I look out, not down. Previous view 👇 I would have stayed in that hotel for this view alone.👆Now there’s not much point.
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    "This view never gets old. Experience it for yourself..." The view may never get old, but it has definitely gotten smaller... which is my only complaint about the location of the new building. Edited to add: Previous view. 👇
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