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  1. swtsig
    lulz
  2. swtsig
    please tell me you're speaking in hyperbole. please.
  3. swtsig
    or that the exterior design of the new convention hotel is actually very similar to the hilton? i wouldn't put much stock in this particular rendering... seems to be more of a placeholder than an actual design. and anyone who thinks it will be 2040 or 2050 before we see a handful of residential towers, a new hotel, and a soccer stadium is out of their mind.... hell, i will guarantee that most of those go up by 2020
  4. swtsig
    big fan of the top rendering... very nice.
  5. swtsig
    the one posted here was some random building in san antonio built in the 80's, i believe... how that became associated w/ the HB building is beyond me
  6. swtsig
    if you were trying to avoid traffic and density, dont move near downtown.
  7. swtsig
    the operative phrase in the whole article is "providing financing can be secured" who is financing $150M+ condo projects right now?
  8. swtsig
    sabbath>rush
  9. swtsig
    -1 point for liking rush
  10. swtsig
    signed, mainplace discovery tower one park place mosaic 2727 kirby cosmopolitan
  11. swtsig
    cant say i really care for that angle.
  12. swtsig
    do NOT rainbow up LTAWACS pity party
  13. swtsig
    it's crazy that it's taken this long to get a decent rendering of the westin on here... thanks puma. i love it, btw. they could've settled for something banal but didn't. more glass on the lower levels would have been nice, but it ties in very well with the MH tower.
  14. swtsig
    you're fooling yourself if you think the developers are going to put a pool on the roof of a 19-story building. atop the parking garage/meeting facilities about 3-5 floors up is much more plausible.
  15. swtsig
    yeah, not sure where the notion of the HOB attracting mostly "hip hop" acts came from, i'd say it's been overwhelmingly rock... hell, i was there for the black crowes last night and it was fantastic. but i stand by my notion that outside of the HOB/luckystrike components, HP is nothing more than a glorified outdoor mall.
  16. swtsig
    why in the world would the owners build the exact same concept as onion creek just a few blocks away from the original? each "creek" establishment serves a different crowd. seems reasonable enough to me.
  17. swtsig
    outside of the "entrance" where forever 21 and BAM are, i would hardly call this "street-side shopping." toured the place yesterday (virtually empty, but it was 3 oclock), and came away with the impression that this is just notch or two above an outdoor mall - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you're fooling yourself if you think having the store fronts facing the interior promenade as opposed to the exterior street is doing anything to truly enhance the actual downtown streetscape. this thing is put together like a mall, has all the similar features of a mall (especially the retail tenants), and it's architecture - save for the skywalks - just screams "mall." the HOB and luckystripe i was told that the ownership regrets not adding a residential component, though.
  18. swtsig
    because they're not native to the area? just a hunch.
  19. swtsig
    exactly. HP isn't shooting for the park shops redux.... it will be busy at lunch, that's a gimme. but if the place is not attracting people past 5 oclock weekdays or on the weekends, then the HP is a failure.
  20. swtsig
    the weekday lunch crowd is not a relevant barometer for HP's success.
  21. swtsig
    you sound like a riot.
  22. swtsig
    did you go to his presentation yesterday at the fed? really wish i could have attended that.
  23. swtsig
    damn, that is big news. and i should've already known that.
  24. swtsig
    just wait for the "typical houston" response... that'll be neat.
  25. swtsig
    got slight confirmation that both the hanover tower and the ritz are going to be delayed at least slightly... they still expected both to happen, but they will be phased in.
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