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  1. danes75
    My question is that if the project is still up and running, why have they let everything on the property fall apart. Last time I was at the sales office, which, by the way, was closed on a Saturday afternoon, the water feature was broken and had missing letters from the name, was overgrown and had broken limbs and trash all in the parking lot. It looked like people hadn't been there in months. If its simply being re-designed.... shouldn't they still at least maintain the property and keep a salesperson there? Even if the floorplans weren't finalized, they still have a product. What the hell does "the very best of celestial living" mean? Some of the taglines from that site make me wanna puke.
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    its obnoxious to see crap like that... especially here. New York did SOHO and now everyone tries it. Oh, its south of downtown? lets call it SODO. Its north Houston? NOHO. North of Washington by the (new) Target? NOWATA-HO. Its cool the first time its done (and works...). Everything afterwards is just unoriginal. Most of the areas in Houston have had names for a long time. Use those instead of jumping on the bandwagon. I'd much rather here Rice Military than some stupid New York knockoff.
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    thanks for the info h-d. in that case, sounds like i might want to start looking for another real estate advisor for my project.... lol
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    you mean making up names like NOHO and SODO? :-)
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    I didn't know that was the same company as the "skyscraper" people. I lived in Dallas when they announced that crap (seems as though it was right after 9/11). They've bought land in several major cities around the US with the intention of building the "world's tallest skyscraper", all of which the city councils denied for one reason or another. The Dallas area one was axed because of air traffic from DFW airport and the fear that it would pull companies out of the business districts. Seems like they spend all their money on attorneys and buying up useless properties.
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    i'm just wondering if wulfe has actually bought the building or if they backed out for some reason. i've never heard of a developer announcing a building being built/renod before they've even purchased it.
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    hmmm... well thats odd. are there different types of office space? he had a developer that wanted to build a structure with retail first floor, 9 floors of office space, and 12 floors of residential. the developer (supposedly) was told he couldn't build something like that in houston...
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    i've always wondered about that building! so i guess the status is still "begining 2006". if they keep with the plan posted on the wulfe site it'll be a really nice building! edit: is this a PROPOSED project? because HCAD's information was updated 10/28/05 and the data on their site says its still owned by MAHARISHI GLOBAL DEV FUND
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    You mean metal sculpters? Like Dallas has had between Deep Ellum and Downtown for a couple of years now? :-P j/k If I'm not mistaken, one of the primary reasons the San Antonio Riverwalk was built was to control flooding. Could this not be done to BB? I think not offering any type of business along the river is a bad idea. People aren't going to want to walk up and down 500 flights of stairs in the middle of August every time their kids want something to drink or need to pee. Whatever the solution, I think the SA Riverwalk, using horses and packmules for construction, took less time.
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    yes... that'll be a lovely place. now if they'd just bulldoze that strip club. a real estate broker friend of mine recently told me that houston doesn't allow buildings to have commercial office space and residential units in the same building. does anyone know if that's true? i'm not sure WHY that would be. i mean, cummon, an adult video store can be in the parking lot of Dillards but office space can't be in the same building as residential? WTF?
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    whys that car is circled in the picture? was it about to get hit by the train? does anyone think that the foley's buyout might be a problem for this development? i very much doubt that macy's would leave that store open.
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    or a salesperson/contracted agent... how many "redesigns" did scamrock go through?
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    All those apartments? That complex is HUGE. It was ghetto too. I had a friend that lived there... lots of obnoxious fresh college grads having loud parties and throwing up off the balconies. I looked there once for a two bedroom, two bath. They originally didnt' have floor plans like that, so they knocked out walls between 1/1 and efficiencies. It was very odd, because then the larger apartment had two entrances in front and a back door in each of the bedrooms that let out into the parking lot.
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    Thats funny. Websites don't mean jack ____ ... domains cost 4 bucks a year and webhosting 4 bucks a month. I know companies that have been bankrupt and out of business for YEARS and their websites are still up.
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    i still think they horribly misjudged their audience. there aren't that many people that can afford something like that... and out of those... very, very few that would want to LIVE in something that looked like that... i think it would have been more successful in dallas where there are tons of silver haired old women that would love to live in a gawdy pink building with a gold flame on top.
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    Is it still going to be Trammel Crow or are they spinning this off with their hotel/residential business?
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    I don't think Houston has reached that critical mass yet. Too much of its population would rather have a McMansion and drive 1+ hrs each day both ways than to have a smaller condo-type home 10 minutes from the office. In cities with at least 1 million residents, Houston has the largest influx of daytime population in the nation. I think Midtown may have outpriced itself. When developers like Post say the property costs too much that is a problem. A month or so ago I spoke with someone from UrbanLofts who said they were actually pulling out of the Midtown area because property has gotten too expensive for the average buyer.
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    "We found much more demand for 2,000-square-foot apartments," said William Friedman, chairman of New York-based Tarragon Corp., which is developing the project with Florida developer Robert Day. i think its odd that, with investments of millions of dollars JUST in advertising, they didn't spend a little more time on research BEFORE all the hubub. how many multi-millionaires did they think houston actually had, and out of those, how many would want to live in a giant pink condo with a gold flame on top and no substantial retail close to it?
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    um... yeah... i lived in dallas for a long... long time and served on the Uptown Association board... no one, and i do mean NO ONE calls that area LoMac. kinda makes me chuckle thinking about those people who live in sherman/denison/durant and call it Far North Dallas..... lmao Trollygirl needs to get back on the short bus.
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    ha! well im not sure where he lives... but if it was anywhere in deep ellum, i can't fault him for wanting things fixed. there was a townhouse development under construction when i left, 5 units, 3 stories, starting price was 650,000. i pity the people that bought there.. i bet things aren't going well for them.
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    but his statement wasn't inaccurate... houston is spread out. personally, i prefer the nice areas of town to all be relatively close together. I don't like living in garden oaks and having the trash ghetto a block away... and the closest grocery store Fiesta and Foodtown.
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    um... that area's kinda sketchy... a block from city hall... BUMS BUMS BUMS
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    Who says Delay is backing rail? My father used to be a Senator in Oklahoma and this all sounds very familiar. IN HOUSTON Delay: "Rail is a bad idea." Public: "Hey, but we want it, and we elected you, so you get it for us." Delay: "Oh... alright. I'm at your service." IN WASHINGTON FTA: "Mr. Delay, these numbers don't seem to be adding up. Can you help us understand them?" Delay: "Um, well, if they don't they don't. Sorry to have wasted your time. Have a great afternoon." IN HOUSTON Delay: "Awe, shucks. Look, the FTA won't approve your request. I was in your corner and did what I could but its those evil, gay lovin', America hatin' Democrats. They killed this." Delay: "Well, since it looks like rail is out, here's a bus and a track in the road. See? Mass Transit."
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    I think commuter rail defeats the purpose of trying to move all of the rail lines out of town (which BNSF is trying to do). I live close to a rail and I'm personally looking forward to when its no longer active. If it gets turned into a commuter line... dammit. I wonder if the wham bam tram's saftey record is reducing ridership? Why can't we be on the cutting edge? A highspeed or maglev train from the airport to the downtown station. (talk about rail deaths...)
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    QUOTE(713 To 214 @ Monday, July 18th, 2005 @ 5:43pm) Not only are Houston's expensive neighborhoods spread out, but so are many things. That's one thing I don't like about Houston. It's too spread out IMO. But that's just me. I prefer a more dense urban environment. This is an inaccurate assessment. what is inaccurate about it?
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