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    I would really like to see a project go up with marketing in the vein of Very Good Building Company, from Parks and Rec. Something like "This will be a good building. Many people will live here. Some people will work here. Some people will buy things here. There will be a pool for swimming."
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    First, even a coffee shop would have been a nice for that neighborhood. But I don't think the problem with Tuam is where Tuam is; after all, the corner of Fairview and Taft like 300ft away has long been abuzz. The problem with that section of Tuam is that it's a thousand feet wide and somehow still manages to have a blind curve that cars take at 35mph or faster. It's a fundamentally unpleasant place to be. 101 Dennis is not that. I don't think it'd be a great spot for a full-scale supermarket with WF only a few blocks away, but I do think it could sustain a couple of restaurants, a coffee shop, and a small retail store like a bookstore. That is one of the densest neighborhoods (neighborhood neighborhoods, not superneighborhoods/districts) in the city, and currently everything they have access to requires crossing at least Bagby or Webster. It's not that it's some unforgivable sin or huge loss or whatever, just that with a bit more pedestrian-oriented/neighborhood-oriented mixed-use, it really could be the best example of fundamentally sound urbanism in the city. I mean it probably is anyway, but still. It could be better.
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    You're not in the minority. On the whole, it's a good development, even with the parking cathedral. I just hope the district generates enough vitality to convince the city to de-highway-ify Fannin and San Jacinto...
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    I mean, wood framing is basically every apartment building these days. For location, obviously being on the 288 feeder isn't great, but they will be easy walking distance from an HEB and Hermann Park, with solid bike access to downtown, med center, Rice, Rice village, TSU, UofH, and the East End. I'd live there if I could afford it. As for "crammed in" - that seems like a good thing? Better thab being all on its own with a big setback and lots of parking, anyway. Buildings in cities should be contiguous. Remember, this is purpose-built affordable housing. It's not gonna be the Dakota, and that's okay.
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    Damn right! This is a live oak city! White oaks are pretty sweet too, though. Really any dense shade tree'll do.
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    Why yuck?
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    Kinda underwhelming for the location, but it's better than a parking lot
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    Dang.
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    Any sign of GFR yet?
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    I didn't see any car-free streets; that helps some. But the point of a bike lane is access; if there is a street that is inaccessible by bike, that'a an accessibility issue. Right now Fannin, San Jacinto, Travis, Milam, and Smith are all extremely hostile to people on bikes, and Main isn't exactly ideal. That's a huge swath of Midtown with no north-south bike access. It's a pretty simple thing: if you can get somewhere by car, you should be able to get there (directly) by bike.
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    Yeah, the fact that street redesigns don't automatically include proper bike lanes in 2022 is pretty infuriating. I live in Midtown and use the protected lane on Austin all the time...to go to Downtown. Not really useful at all for intra-neighborhood trips apart from Retrospect.
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    You should see the other side! Fully protected bike lane, kinda like the one on Forest Hill Blvd. The wide sidewalks, though, seem to be a theme for all of the new bridges over Brays - 75th, Lawndale, Chimney Rock (I think it's Chimney Rock? One of the ones out there over yonder, anyway). I am, as kids surely cannot possibly still say, here for it.
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    Sorry, horsey. (But honestly this seems like a great thing to me.)
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    Thiên Ân & Pho Saigon are also worth a shoutout. Also, I personally love that the topic of this thread has now become Vietnamese food in and around Midtown.
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    I swear to god that wasn't there yesterday. Nice to get a sense of the height! Would be great for that metro stop to get some shade in the afternoons. Not a perfect angle for it, but for a decent chunk of the year it should give some relief.
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    I agree - very noticeable. Also, as with the BigTex one on Montrose, pretty nice use of highway-adjacent space. Gives shade and noise dampening to the adjacent blocks
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    But if you're comparing the 96 square miles within the loop (or, really, the ~50 square miles where the bulk of the development is happening) to the ~9,900 square miles of the Houston metro area outside of the loop, that's not really apples-to-apples either. If we are talking about the pace of construction within particular areas/neighborhoods on a per-square-mile-basis (which, given the financial risk involved in construction, certainly seems as fair a measure of "desirability" as total population growth compared between areas that differ in size by two orders of magnitude), or, ya know, price, it seems pretty clear that all of the most desirable areas are either inside the loop or immediately outside W610. Asiatown and Gulfton are definitely food capitals, but let's not pretend Mai's is even close to being the best Vietnamese in Midtown, let alone the loop...
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    Oh cool! Is that slated for the whole rest of the block? Also, any info about the lot on the corner Clay and Velasco (across the street from EaDough? I saw a varience request sign there as well a little while back but couldn't find anything about it. Would be really great to see trails like the CT (and MKT/HHB) get a bit of the Atlanta Beltline East treatment. (Recently experienced trailfront cafe life at Da Gama and am hooked)
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    This would be a huge upgrade for that parcel. Possibly unrelated, but I noticed today that there seem to be a lot of saplings (most or all looked like live oaks to my inexpert eye) planted in rows in the adjacent lot that abuts Velasco/CTRT - do you think those will be used for this project?
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    The "Circa 2003 Suburban Middle School" vibe is strong with this one. But I like it fine. Solid era for suburban middle schools.
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    Those are interesting data, but I don't think they actually refute the idea that densification is happening inside the loop. It's just that people tend not to realize how freakin big the loop is. We're talking about an area of nearly 100 square miles, with large areas that are underdeveloped (or purpose-built in a suburban layout like West U). In other words, the population within the loop is not evenly spread out, but fairly clustered around nodes and corridors, which is exactly what multimodal urbanization and rapid transit require in order to be effective.
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    D'oh. Northeast corner. Coolio. Thanks for the update!
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    Are they demolishing the apartments there?
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    Gross.
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    Are these still the only renderings we've got?
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