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ugh

6 hours ago, Amlaham said:

This building is up for demo!

About time!

It was almost completely "demo'ed" about a year ago by yet another vagrant fire.

On 5/6/2023 at 10:03 PM, monarch said:

^^^ actually, "the homeless" are not only human beings, they are citizens of our fair city.  please BE BETTER!

I will when they stop harassing me on a daily basis

Nice to see a lot of seating for the homeless to set up house.

Is this the I-45 rebuild north Houston highway tread? It sure doesn't read that way

The crime rate in Montrose as already dropped considerably since Covenant House has moved out.....

2 hours ago, scarface said:

You sound like the safety police 😄, but ok. I see what you're saying.

Maybe it will be overall for better for the city of Houston, but that view coming into downtown from 45 will be severely diminished by paralleling it with 59.

"Safety Police?" 😆

I personally think that the view coming into downtown is a lot more impressive from a distance ... when you get right on top of downtown you lose perspective of the "Emerald City-esque" skyline. Besides,from what I understand  the western portion will remain as a spur to allow access into downtown.

37 minutes ago, texan said:

An interesting compromise would be to remove alternating sections of each direction of the freeway to allow for park development underneath as well. Green space in the sunlit sections of the ground level and playgrounds/exercise fixtures in the shaded areas. A multilevel park would be really cool and wouldn’t just be a copy of the Highline that’s 2-3x as wide.

I'd be down with leaving a few sections up, but ONLY where it crosses over streets ..... it would preserve  possible "vista" points into downtown while still leaving all the blocks for future development into housing and offices. Over time these could be connected into an elevated park/walkway system between new buildings built all along the section..... essential a second "street" level much like what is done in many large cities overseas

11 hours ago, BEES?! said:

I think METRO wants to work on the Inner Katy BRT regardless of the HSR project (on their project map I think the extension from NWTC to Northwest Mall is only shown as conceptual) because 1) it’ll be another (maybe faster?) route into Downtown from Uptown and also serve people living along the I-10 corridor. I believe The University Line stops at Wheeler Transit Center and you have to transfer to the Red Line. Inner Katy doesn’t require any transferring. They badly want that connection- one of the specific reasons they’ve given is because they want to link the hotel capacity between Uptown and the east side of Downtown (so…GRB, basically) since the BRT extension will also run along the Green/Purple Line alignment downtown and to St Emmanuel St without any transfers).

Inner Katy BRT transfers at Northwest Transit Center and (i believe) the future west terminus of the LRT in the city courts area. That makes at least two or perhaps three transfers to get to mid downtown from the Galleria ..... the University Line route would also be two  (Bellaire and Wheeler).  Most people don't like even one .....

On 10/3/2022 at 10:02 PM, Justin Welling said:

Yes, all the roads and sidewalks along the BRT corridor will be rebuilt. 

I wish, but if history has taught me anything, they will rebuild all the sections of the BRT route except the stretch from the spur through Shepherd .... they obviously think that rotten roads and broken sidewalks add "character" to the neighborhood

1 hour ago, scarface said:

I am kind of with Ross, but I'm kind of not. 

Tearing down Pierce will take away one of the most majestic views in the entire state, which will be a major loss for the city of Houston.  But i'm all for burying or capping parts of the 59, more specificially by George R. Brown which will connect downtown with the rest of East downtown (Eado). 

I don't consider the Pierce elevated to have "majestic views" either from on top (safer if eyes are on the road) nor underneath it (dodgy parking lots / homeless encampments/ high crime rates).

For Houston's sake ..... TEAR IT DOWN. Sell some and make a few other parts into parks. The inner city will be much better for it and property values in midtown will soar.

Next question .... how will the cancellation of this project affect the proposed BRT link along I-10 as future transit demand along that route was predicated on the Texas Central being built. Anyone still wanting to get to the Galleria from downtown/Medical Center will still be able to use the "University Line" (a less expensive buildout) so why build spend the extra funds at this time?

12 minutes ago, Texasota said:

You've apparently never been between the ages of 18 and 30 and living paycheck to paycheck.

All this does is formalize an arrangement a lot of people are in anyway.

No, I skipped over those years ....there was no money in it.

2 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

If I could have a dollar for every time a HAIFer predicted failure. . .

True, L O L , but who really wants to live in what is essentially a dorm if there are other options

My prediction is that this concept will fail within 5 years and it will be converted into 1 and 2 BR apartments

Blah, blah, blah, blah ....

Heavy equipment on site

Wow, that is going to look like s___

They should have gone with faux windows along the front

Can the moderators add the tag "Austin" (or whatever city outside of Houston) to the titles of those out-of-town projects? This is, after all the HOUSTON Architecture Info Forum.

On 7/26/2022 at 6:32 PM, jmitch94 said:

What are you basing this on? Bing inside the loop is more desirable than its ever been. I saw recently that two thirds of Houston construction was inside the loop. 

Perhaps your data only counted construction within the city limits ..... the metro suburbs, which are  mostly outside city limits (by design),  have been growing at almost an uncontrollable rate.

11 hours ago, aachor said:

I wish that the state would reexamine how property taxes are structured. For example: Right now, taxes are based simply on the property's assessed value. I think there should be separate assessments for the land and for improvements, with the land being taxed at a higher rate than improvements in major cities.

In a way it already is ..... the VALUE of the land are segregated out, and if the land values go up due to location desirability then the taxes go up.  Unfortunately, the desirability of being inside the loop has been dropping or stagnant for a decade or more compared to the Houston suburbs where most people look to buy for better schools and/or larger yards/houses for the same money.  Increasing land taxes inside the city will only make things worse as it will continue to drive people out.