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Nice!  The Crossroads area was great. Reminded me a lot of midtown with street grids and a street car. One thing KC apparently did (I haven't checked and am just going off my experience and uber driver's story) is they made buses and the light rail FREE. 

Whoa. I had no idea it was a small tower. Great for that location.

Not sure of the current schedule but I've taken the Amtrak to Tucson twice but it's been awhile. The train used to roll through town at well after midnight for westbound departures. 

Oh man. That was one of my favorite spots to bring my dog. Plus there was a pretty well hidden disc golf course running through there. Sure wish they'd start eating up some of the surface parking with development and garages rather than chewing up green and open space. 

Universities can interject a lot of life to the streets, especially if there are residence halls. It would be great to have 1,500 young residents giving life. I dream of STLC putting up a small residential hall on their campus.

Give the brick a few years and it will look better. This is way better than the fake stucco/cheap stucco stuff going up everywhere in my opinion. 

Follow the money. Tilman was a big Whitmire supporter. He's got lots of interests downtown that could suffer with a bigger and better Post. 

I am absolutely most interested in this project. This is a legit game changer potential development. Thanks for the info, Info!

It definitely fits the St Regis model which is surprisingly modern for their residences (Sunny Isles Beach, Miami, Boston,  Chicago). 

Interesting. The once wildly popular Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles closes at the end of January. 

That to me looks very clearly like a hotel (lower floors with smaller windows and curtains) with residential above (balconies and taller windows). 

That would make bank in the TMC. Especially if the residences had shorter term furnished leases available for families of patients.

Good to know. So this garage must be orientated so that it isn't facing residential. But it's still an open air concrete garage. Houston has way too many and keeps building more.

The glass box doesn't bother me as much as adding another exposed concrete garage inside the loop especially along the improved bayou. I'd hate to be the neighbors that get to look at that and the light polution at night. 

The buildings are quite striking. It's disappointing that the hotel and residential don't seem to have footing. 

The one thing that sticks out to me is the surface parking lot. Ugh. What parcel did that go on? 

Funny, but the places that were torn down on Texas always had crowds despite not being great. And the bar inside the Westin (Inn at the Ballpark) buzzes on game days. 

Build it well and they will come.

Ohhh. That's the Caydon property that went bankrupt (the Australians). 

In fairness, the area around Citi Field is a wasteland. Much more opportunity to build from scratch on a much larger piece of property.

That said, Crane owns enough land around MMP that he could go much bigger than this first leak. The problem with building piecemeal is that if it starts with just a hotel and indoor mall(ish) looking thing with a massive garage, it might flop and discourage any further development (see Green Street or ROD that had bold ambition, built small, and now are essentially dead zones). 

I know it won't face the interior of the original quad but I cannot believe they chose that design for the Architecture addition. 

It would be fine anywhere else on campus but I hate it there.

84% at those prices prove that there is demand for high end housing attached to hotel brands for the amenities. Let's hope this leads to a few more of these sprinkled between downtown and uptown.

TXDOT just removed 375 units at the Lofts at the Ballpark. I'd hope that any first phase would at least replace that number. Green Street's huge mistake was removing the residences and not building a hotel right away. If you went those first years, there was nothing to make you want to come back outside of concerts. You have one shot to make a first impression. This needs to knock it out of the park, pun fully intended. 

That looks awful. 

It is Green Street. Parking, a hotel, and retail that doesn't look to engage the streets at all. There's even a skywalk it looks like.

And I know it's early but we built a "throwback" park with brick and a nod to Union Station and the village looks to be a Galleria 5 from 1988?

Massive garages lining the bayou on both sides. Yuck.

Yikes. 

Is that just 1550 on the Green? Is there anything else under construction in downtown office-wise?