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  1. N Judah
    People 30 years from now will use libraries in a completely different way. Assuming this renovation is intended to last that long, I think a cafe and all of these other extra things are definitely appropriate. As someone else pointed out, it's not abnormal to find such amenities in a public library.
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    This board gets excited when a new H-E-B opens. I think this is more interesting. I'm a little surprised mainly since I tend to associate La Quinta with freeway/suburban hotels, not so much downtown. I wonder how it will look.
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    Cougar Place is sitting on land that would be better used as part of the LRT stadium area they have mentioned before (if not directly, as subsitute parking for the chunk of the lot that will inevitably be taken up). I like that MacGregor area best as a park, but who knows what they could do with it in the future.
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    So when will they be done with the new dorms?
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    For the bricks? Maybe there's some 4th Ward TIRZ that can be set up to do the job, in that case. Beats the heck out of shiny streetlights/street signs.
  6. N Judah
    Take out those bricks - to put in the power lines or whatever - but then brick-ify the whole neighborhood. That should be an acceptable compromise, no? If anything it's a good excuse to do something that can only help the neighborhood as a whole. I think a ton of people would love to live in houses/apartments that line brick-paved streets. And now they finally have a legitimately authentic reason to pave the streets with bricks, or something similar to bricks.
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    The pursuit of authenticity!
  8. N Judah
    Houston has a lot of places like that. It's definitely not limited to this development.
  9. N Judah
    We need to get all the density we can get out of these non-deed-restricted areas. That's what I think.
  10. N Judah
    I drove by today and it would be incredibly easy to take a pic without anyone noticing. However, there's still not much there to take pics of that hasn't already been posted.
  11. N Judah
    Can they really do that?
  12. N Judah
    If stuff like this could replace the system of deed restrictions, I think I personally would not mind at all. however, i want to see what happens in this case before i can say for sure.
  13. N Judah
    I think that neighborhood works better with the kind of development that is proposed, rather than just a bunch of single family homes. If they are so worried about it they should have lived in one of the many, many other cities with zoning.
  14. N Judah
    I am not disagreeing with you that that this is a problem. However, I am saying that from a practical point of view, these wealthy people would have made themselves better off by pre-emptively putting in the effort to improve other parts of the city. To avoid such battles in the future, the government could create QOL incentives that would redirect these massive highrises elsewhere. It would fit in better elsewhere. (I think it is too late for that, however.) I wonder if the developers anticipated this and over-reached in their initial sketches, expecting to scale it back. Also, I wonder if changing the design itself would appease the neighborhood.
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    Houston should (with the aid of the wealthy people in neighborhoods that don't want the development) create incentives (design/QOL-related incentives, not just financial) that make developers want to put these big highrises elsewhere. Or in other words: what is it that could make this developer want to move this development someplace less "disruptive"? Maybe in the future these well-connected people would find out what that is ahead of time and make it happen, thus pre empting these battles. But at any rate, this particular development doesn't seem that bad, other than being unattractive.
  16. N Judah
    What the heck? Either DT is in a slump or it isn't.
  17. N Judah
    Deck chairs on the Titanic? Is that what downtown Houston has turned into? Or is it just another "phase" like we've come to expect from Houston?
  18. N Judah
    If that is even true, that must be a *very* recent development. Having said that, UCLA has 2-3x as many incoming freshman as USC. Once you account for that, it's not even close.
  19. N Judah
    Is it by the same guys as this one in Sugarland? http://www.thecoffeegroundz.com/ I haven't been to either -- has anyone tried their coffee?
  20. N Judah
    I happen to disagree. I think the pictures posted on this thread look way better than the renderings. They look like they are in the style of 2222 Smith which I think is a nice, safe look that isn't trendy or fake but isn't hard-core utilitarian either. When I saw the renderings I thought it would be some kind of pastel faux-Miami thing, but thankfully it is not. Does anyone happen to have any interior pics we can all look at?
  21. N Judah
    No, not Texas Monthly. I guess it was the News week list -- whichever one was on the stands last week. Edit: Here's the list -- Bellaire is in the top 100, and DeBakey and Memorial are in the top 200. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18757087/site/newsweek/
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    Are we speaking of the same list? I am referring to the one that was available as of last week. I read the rankings while in the grocery checkout line. Do you remember which magazine it was? I am trying to find it online.
  23. N Judah
    I think Newsweek recently came out with a listing of the top 100 public high schools in the US (or if not Newsweek, Time or US News). Several Dallas schools were in the top ten, and the only Houston school to make the list was the one having to do with health professions.
  24. N Judah
    I like the idea of those pedestrian arcades going through blocks. I forget what they're called in other places; I saw some pictures of ones in Melbourne and it looked really nice.
  25. N Judah
    I dunno...it is still pretty fake-looking, if you ask me.
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