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  1. strickn
    That's funny seeing the pigeon exclusion net bib under the chin the Brutalist building in the foreground
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    IDK... hard pressed to see anything that stands apart from a newish suburb of Charlotte, Orlando, Nashville or Dallas, if I hadn't already known what I was looking at. If it had more pine trees I might have guessed The Woodlands. Every little bit could help I guess but what is so fitting for the nation's fourth largest city about this?
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    If that kind of vision still counts as visionary, though, then we're not going to be in the same design conversation as Chicago, Mexico City, L.A., Philadelphia or DC for some time yet.
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    To me this is a major sub/urban site. With South Main being the foremost automotive commercial corridor in the early post-streetcar-suburb days of Houston, but having been passed over in recent decades, it would be important to me to see it not flip from strip malls to garage wrap donuts -- or a pan's labyrinth of driveway loaded townhomes on the other hand -- if we're still imagining ourselves the next major metropolis. If this is accessible enough to the rest of the city *and* to TMC to be worth developing as mixed use now without marketing luxury product (luxury is not a potential that this site has) then maybe workforce urban shopping and living are coming of age here again.
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    Thanks. Is there a link available to an article saying this? I don't see it in this thread yet.
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    Thanks, never saw this photo before.
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    No he was cueing us all to come in chanting the Apple fan mantra
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    It works at what cost compared to alternatives though? Having BRT stations could carry more Houstonians (mass transit) at lower prices in more parts of the city. BRT stations inspire less developer confidence than rails in the ground, but the difference in cost could make for a whole ‘nother set of density subsidies like the downtown core residential unit program. That would probably cause more infill than spending on rails that don’t carry more riders than buses.
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    1900 West Loop South was the headquarters of 3D/International (formerly known as Diversified Design Disciplines; fka Neuhaus & Taylor) from its construction until they were bought by one of Southern California's defense and AEC (architecture-engineering-construction) giants, Parsons Corporation, in 2006. https://offcite.rice.edu/2010/03/LightTouch_Koush_Cite64.pdf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southfield_Town_Center https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-OK12 https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/2016/05/25/formal-again/
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    Yes, in this post:
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    That franchise never was disbanded, either.
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    Well, there still is one here at St. John’s https://mavs.sjs.org/facilities Not to nitpick but to nitpick… the team didn’t quite end like that, and won the AFL the next year too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Dallas_Texans_season
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    ”The naming rights contract with PNC Bank expired at the end of 2022.” oh! Is this the sort of change that will change the thread name too?
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    Wish they could raise the brick driveway and parking spaces to the current level of the credit union pavilion's slab, and somehow just leave the tall pillars & roof as a big open air pergola over some of the parking spots That would be great problem-solving and maybe civic respect Anyhow, I'd love to see it attempted.
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    Population biologists identify species with differing reproductive strategies. Some are called "r-selected" and some are called "K-selected" according to the limiting factor in an equation that calculates population growth with time. One type of species require a higher level of care for their offspring but the next generation can thrive in specialized ways within a stable local environment ... one type of species require minimal care and compensate for it by having tons more offspring and tons more mortality but the survivors can thrive in a wide range of unstable environments. Elephants and cockroaches are two extremes of this population biology spectrum. From a civic perspective we can relate this to the Buxton Index, which is a number that indicates how far ahead a group of people typically makes its plans. A stable institution may plan far into the future but have a lower metabolism, lower dynamism, and higher cost of buy-in or entry. Dynamic institutions or societies with low buy-in may be more welcoming but some of them aren't going to be around in the future. One is not better for everybody unless you know what the future holds. Youtube video maker urbanists merely have a moral preference for elephant cities over cockroaches.
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    As I understand it, that leaves the destinations for which I-45N is best as just The Woodlands and maybe Dallas. It might remain a little faster to and from Beltway 8 and 610 North Loop (if someone is coming from somewhere south of central Houston) on a good day as compared to I-69 -- and since the Hardy and 290 don't cross and reach downtown, respectively.
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    Yeah, but the featured projects on their site do account for at least four recent actual buildings that went vastly beyond tenant management. maybe e-mail them a link about the Howard Cottonseed warehouse listing while you're looking for active inboxes?
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    😊
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    Which they might have predicted, if extrapolating from the traffic patterns 1955-1979 like a responsible agency would do. I-14 will be a major rearrangement; Houston trucks headed to/from anywhere west of Bryan will find 290 more direct than 45-North, and anywhere east of Lufkin will find I-69 more direct than 45-North.
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    Could anyone please comment on whether TxDOT's press conferences about the demand for the widening have referenced I-14 at all? This is an interstate corridor that will run from West Texas over to I-95 on the East Coast, via Bryan and Huntsville. It will decongest I-10 by becoming the preferred route for long distance freight travel and road trips. I-27 from Lubbock and I-44 from Wichita Falls will very likely connect down to I-20 first, but then it is possible that they will also be able to tie into I-14. The segment from Fort Hood to I-35 is already open but several other segments just need grade separations / crossing closures as they are already built to interstate geometries. Bottom line, without modeling this shift it could be akin to TxDOT if they had predicted in 1980 the Gulf Freeway to need forty lanes by the time Houston grew to hit 7 million metro population.
  21. strickn
    Stacking just four of them produces a Wilson Tower tower of desktop towers!
  22. strickn
    Then may I introduce to you the one and only Mac Pro? Got a good feeling about you two...
  23. strickn
    “…energy companies in the area which are cutting square footage. Apache Corp. is moving its headquarters from Post Oak to BriarLake Plaza in 2024, a move that could shrink its Houston presence by more than 50%. Other downsizes last year include pipeline company Enbridge, which shrunk from 600K SF to 293K SF, and Baker Hughes, which consolidated and scaled down its office space by 62%.” https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/office/callon-petroleum-upsizes-hq-as-part-of-memorial-city-move-117012
  24. strickn
    Way to watch it
  25. strickn
    If a notary public is in here, I would like to bequeath to 004n063, 77, my medal for the most liked HAIF content on Halloween 2012, and the scrap metal value of my bicycle
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