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cool, hopefully we see some renderings soon, if everything works out.

If that's the rendering for the fire museum on that site, than it looks pretty cool, from that angle atleast.

I like this article, it has some good idea's in it as well. Hopefully someone important reads the article.

doesn't look like a bad building.

I am glad they are going to be brick. And I think at first they were planning on making them rentals, but not to long ago, if I am not mistaken, they switched to own.

Coolgreen park? This city isnt very good at coming up with origianl names is it?

That sounds awesome. Any event downtown that gets activity going and lets people see that there actually is activity downtown, so they can feel safe about living there, is good.

I wasn't alive during the 60s, but I did like the rockets that you could build in the early 90's, that came in the little packages. Don't know if we're talking about the same thing though?

Awesome article. TMC has so much potential.

That's a disappointment, that's where the NIMBY's should be stepping in. It's like reverse progress.

Will this one have retail or any distinguishing architectual qualities that stand out or will it be one of those office park type buildings?

Is LYME the nanotechnology company from Boston? I forgot, the address sounds familiar.

Cool picture, I wish I lived in one of those.

Oh, I didn't know it was fenced off, hopefully some way they can make it open to the public, or next year if not this year. If it was open to the public than I think a lot more people would attend.

Oh, well hopefully it does soon then.

so any retail or restaurants??  will this be residential or commercial?

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It will be residential, and it looks like from the renderings that it will have ground retail, but im not sure.

And has this already broken ground?

Im glad it returned to downtown. I take a fair being held in a parking lot as an insult somehow. Also this could help people decide if they want to live downtown, because it just adds another activity for the downtown residents to enjoy. And if we're lucky it could bring out a slightly positive effect.

I agree with all of you, unfortunately they don't do their best to satisfy everybody that they have effected, it's just about how fat their paycheck will be.

I wanted to.

This really disappointed me. Hopefully we can do it without him.

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yes, nothing wrong with a little brick now and then, even if its just one side!

Not to sound negative, I am glad that there is development going on, but those are just plain ugly to me. The white material on the outside and then red and yellow doors. Yuck.

Saw this on last nights news.

New home for downtown homeless?

06:18 PM CST on Wednesday, January 5, 2005

By Jason Whitely / 11 News

Click to watch video

A Houston church is finding it tough to forgive unholy acts by some congregates. It's an example of a larger problem that began when dozens of homeless people started gathering in one area near downtown.

KHOU

The Pierce Elevated has long been a popular campground for the homeless.

At the Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, folks have prayed a lot about this problem. Dozens of homeless have encamped under the Pierce elevated.

Vagrants allegedly threaten parishioners, try to steal offering boxes under prayer candles and even panhandle during mass.

"These are desperate acts of people," said Noel Cowart with the Downtown/Midtown Residents Association.

Noel Cowart lives nearby and says ever since the stadiums moved downtown and the park across from the Toyota Center was closed, the number of street people under the Pierce Elevated has grown to almost 200.

So have the problems.

"Is it the city's fault? Is it the state's fault? Is it the county's fault? TxDOT's? Nobody wants to take responsibility for it," complained Scott Munroe who owns a nearby McDonald's. "I think I heard this is basically a park."

"This is a park. Pierce Park Plaza," agreed Cowart.

The city leases the land under the freeway from TxDOT. The Parks Department cleans it. But no one's kicking the homeless out.

"Where are we going to go?! Where? Nobody will help us," said Lori Jean Edwards, who is homeless.

That may be changing. Councilman Michael Berry tells us he's looking for a solution within the city. But another group of homeless shelters, agencies and downtown organizations says it already has one and is about to present it.

"Immediately we hope to move them from the street to a stable environment," said Anthony Love, President/CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless. "Then once we get them from the street to a stable environment, assess them to be able to transition them to a more longer-term place of residence."

It's unclear how quickly the program will begin or how many homeless will move to temporary housing. But a similar idea worked ten years ago. Many hope it will this time, too.

^lmao, but seriously, what a shame.

I know some people that give the homeless canned food instead of money. haha.