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  1. JJxvi
    Seems like a West Ave style mixed use apt complex would do well in this area on a parcel of this size.
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    http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2014/06/galleria-area-development-site-trades-hand/
  3. JJxvi
    High rise?!!! I live within 1000 ft of this thing now! OMG! Revolt! Traffic! Out of scale! They're ruining the neighborhood!
  4. JJxvi
    Its hard for me to see how those single family communities nestled right up to Uptown Park, 4 Oaks Place, and Riverway are going to successfully argue that highrises and big commercial developments are a problem for them.
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    TheNiche

    JJxvi replied to crunchtastic's topic in Way Off Topic

    The actual neighborhood is dead, killed by WalMart. Nobody even lives there anymore.
  6. JJxvi
    Which reminds me of a Ford dealership!
  7. JJxvi
    I like how he threw in the sunset reference to make it crystal clear he isn't concerned about views.
  8. JJxvi
    Isn't it green under those bridges right now?
  9. JJxvi
    From that angle it reminds me of the design for new Ford dealership showrooms.
  10. JJxvi
    This is an interesting location for a large multifamily development, IMO. Its going to be an apartment complex with no major road access in the middle of a sea of single family (though admittedly a sea of pretty dense large townhomes)?
  11. JJxvi
    You sound like a great person to do business with. If I felt that strongly, I'd probably just tell my realtor "No, I don't like the Heights" and move on to their next suggestion. Or maybe you wouldn't really do that and its all a crazy exaggeration.
  12. JJxvi
    I'd like to meet the powerful executive willing to snuff out careers from the strands of time in order to preserve his beloved tree.
  13. JJxvi
    At least it doesn't look like a jail.
  14. JJxvi
    Perhaps you're right and we'll wish that the neighbors had all done more petitions and put out signs to "Stop the Heights Hotel Driveway!" but I doubt it. Also this driveway is just the covered luggage drop off, not the main traffic driveway. The main car entry and exit to the parking garage is on 4th St.
  15. JJxvi
    Well, I'm a bit of an odd duck, but MY hope is that common sense would rule and that people would realize that this is obviously a commercial lot on a multi-lane access rd for a 10 lane major highway and is not remotely going to be dumping people into the middle of a neighborhood and grant a variance. Thank God we don't have property laws that are on stone tablets like the 10 commandments saying "THOU SHALT NOT BUILD THY HOTEL DRIVEWAY ON A RESIDENTIAL STREET EVEN IF THE ONLY PLACE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO TO AND FROM YOUR PROPERTY IS STRAIGHT ONTO THE HIGHWAY"
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    My goodness, I hope these Hotel residents won't get lost in the Heights. Hopefully they will be able to find I-10 somehow from the hotel's driveway.
  17. JJxvi
    I would have just turned and pointed a single finger silently. A helpful downtown direction giving version of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
  18. JJxvi
    I bet the Super Bowl would be totally ruined if they don't get that light rail extension done...
  19. JJxvi
    No effect.
  20. JJxvi
    I disagree.
  21. JJxvi
    That block is parceled up between 5 or 6 unrelated owners.
  22. JJxvi
    Exxon should expect to be annexed to Houston.
  23. JJxvi
    The problem I have with the current method of building higher and higher capacity roads that run further and further away from the city center, with regard to "efficiency" is that it is no doubt inherently more inefficient than building high capacity transportation in the central city. It takes exponentially more land, more miles, more vehicles, more fuel to cover the transportation costs of 5 million people spread over 10,000 square miles than it does to cover the transportation of 5 million people spread over 2,000 square miles. The only way it is more "efficient" is that more of the cost is borne by the user. And as time goes by, more and more of the costs are being shifted as even the initial construction costs are being financed by the future users through tolls, because its really damned expensive to have big roads to all areas 20-50 miles from city centers.
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    Freeways are cheap for government when you consider the ongoing costs are shifted to the user. The average I-10 driver probably uses up $5,000 (or more? $10,000? I duuno) per year in depreciation, fuel costs, registration and safety compliance, maintenance, some amount of real estate costs for storage of the vehicle, possibly financing costs related to the vehicle, insurance, etc. 350,000 times $5000 is annual ongoing costs of almost $2 billion per year paid by the users (plus on I-10 you also have fees being charged to some users as well). I dunno how that should get allocated to just I-10 (since some portion of the costs would be allocated to trips on other roads), but my guess is a significant portion of some commuters annual transportation costs come from miles on I-10.
  25. JJxvi
    I think in a perfect world Houston would consolidate freeway ROW in the downtown area. It's fairly useless to have highway on all borders, particularly ones that are just passing through without providing good access.
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