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43 minutes ago, samagon said:

I mean, I guess if you want to use disco green as an example that works, and may actually be a bad comparison, because 5 days out of the week it's pretty ghost-townish during normal business hours.

This is not true. There is always people there now unless its its a bad weather day.

13 hours ago, EaDolivin said:

I can already tell this bar is trash before I ever set foot in it.

As long as the drinks are cheap I could care less. If they keep everything from the last place, it was actually pretty nice.

Update. I can confirm that I also saw an actual taco truck at this location for a few moments, a very rare sighting downtown.

This is literally no difference to whats already there. There is already no seats. They are adding a bar so people don't fall(nobody has fallen).

5 hours ago, samagon said:

if Pitch 25, a bar owned (partially) by a former Dynamo player, isn't showing their games, then wow.

I mean, that's what I'm reading between the lines of your cryptic post.

That's the worst of them all. There are zero places in Houston that will put Dynamo games on voluntarily and its always like you're forcing them to put on an erotic movie. They might comply, but its gonna be at the shittiest tv in the corner with no sound where no one can see you.

I wonder if they will show Dynamo games on TV. None of the bars around there do unless you bring a big crowd with reservation AND the Astros are not playing AND no other big sporting event is going on. And yes Ive been to them all including the obvious ones you are thinking a million times and know what i'm talking about.

They could have at least attempted a pedestrian connection with downtown...

On 7/15/2021 at 8:54 AM, Texasota said:

I mean. Maybe pay a local artist to do something unique rather than paying who knows how much for something that's just a copy?

Because local artists only want to make recycled steel column statues.

On 7/2/2021 at 10:53 AM, H-Town Man said:

Has this been tried anywhere in the U.S.? Besides scaring a lot of investors out of Houston because you've suddenly dramatically altered how properties are taxed, it seems like this would have a decentralizing effect on development, as people would choose to build office buildings in suburban locations where land is valued much less and tenants would flee the dramatically high tax reimbursement costs downtown.

From Wikipedia

"Notwithstanding the change in 2001, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Business Improvement District employed a pure land value taxation as a surcharge on the regular property tax from 1997 to 2016.^[22] In 2000, Florenz Plassmann and Nicolaus Tideman wrote^[23] that when comparing Pennsylvania cities using a higher tax rate on land value and a lower rate on improvements with similar sized Pennsylvania cities using the same rate on land and improvements, the higher land value taxation leads to increased construction within the jurisdiction."

It would probably make most skyscraper taxes downtown much lower. Compare the property tax of a skyscraper downtown to the property tax of a same sized area of houses in the burbs. Now compare the land value of a block downtown compared to the land value of a same sized area in the burbs.

Also the value of empty lots downtown would go way down, because property owners would be forced to sell land rather than pay the taxes. Much of the value of lots downtown is due to speculation.

13 hours ago, Twinsanity02 said:

 Downtown surface parking lots may have to be placed in an  "endangered species". Their boom times were the 1970's through the 1990's. They appear to be disappearing. My concern are the hideous high rise garages which bludgeon the eye, such as one can sees at Main and Walker. The ideal would be high rise garages such as the one at Preston and Louisiana.

I'm all for high density parking with at least some ground floor retail. It's a million times better than the equivalent 8-10 surface lots. There's no point in worrying about beauty until we obtain the walkability to enjoy the beauty.

1 hour ago, wilcal said:

Hopefully they don't let them set up the pricing model for parking in the garage.

$1 parking + $.21 facility fee + $.39 environmental tax + .....

Only $1 for the first 10 customers that reserve their spot 15 days in advance. A resale fee of $5 + 10% will be charged on the Ticker Master website. The on site price will be dynamically set by an algorithm that scans the make and model of the car with an additional $11 service charge for sedans and SUVs. Once the parking lot reaches 50% occupancy the remaining spots will be set aside for $899 VIP packages that include a bottle of fuel additive and additional purchasable upgrades.

Oh thank god, please do something. Start selling alcohol or get outta that spot.

Nice, one of the worst companies on the planet.

Don't go Nimby on us. If it wasn't allowed it would be a surface parking lot by now.

There's another thread about this somewhere. Its the same building owner. Going to be a mixed use with probably a bar at the bottom and offices or residential at the top.

I vote The Rustic as the least inviting building in all of downtown.

Of course they're are going to have parking. How am I supposed drive home after drinking at a bar if there is no parking? /s

That would be good to see a block with both sides blocked off. Finn Hall and Flying Sauce suffer from overly tinted windows making them unwelcoming to passerbys. Hopefully this will help them out.

I hope they at least make use of the statues and very nice stonework.

On 2/16/2021 at 10:02 AM, mattyt36 said:

Does anyone know what's going up at the site of the old Hefley's that burned down (138ish W Gray?).  It looks to be a 2-story steel frame structure.

I believe its going to be a bar and possibly mixed use with some offices and a penthouse for the man himself on the upper floors.

It would be nice to have a route from Downtown to Chinatown/Bellaire. Nobody wants to go through Wheeler station.

Oh it was fantastic as a pedestrian. I was walking in the middle of the street between Crocker and Stanford just for fun. Can they do that every weekend?

Nothing new 7 Jan

On 12/11/2020 at 2:33 PM, j_cuevas713 said:

So this has no chance of being saved? 

If only we could just erase a few decades.