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  1. citykid09
    Is the limit only 5,000 units for the incentive? Well it should surley be moved up in my opinion to at least 20,000 units. Midtown should also have these incentives and require that the buildings be at least 5 or more stories, no parking requirements, no set backs, power lines must be placed underground and the sidewalks must be as wide as the ones you see in NYC.
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    With the way the inner city is densifying, we are bound to hear an announcement sometime soon about a rail line (hopefully heavy rail) connecting the rest of the lines to uptown. Once the millennials and generation Z take over, I am sure Houston will finally get the heavy rail that is deserving of a city this size.
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    That Hong Kong skyline is unreal! Looks so futuristic!
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    Does anyone know if this one will have ground floor retail like the others?
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    Does any of you think that the trend of suburban shopping centers, suburban aparment complexes and subruban houses is over with for inner city Houston, or will that trend continue? I like that more "urban" development is going up in the city, but I hate that noting really matches up as in a larger over all plan for the city as a whole. Its just spots of development, no large overall area to just walk around and enjoy the urban environment. No area for tourist and locals to walk around and congregate.
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    Am I the only one who knew this was never going to happen?
  7. citykid09
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/business/target-is-testing-a-small-store-for-city-shoppers.html?_r=0
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    If not one skyline, it would be nice if all of the skylines were inside of 610. Uptown would be where River Oaks is and River Oaks would be where Uptown is. Leave the Woodlands skyline where it is. I like how that area is is becoming a whole other city. I prefer a city with life around its tall buildings, not parking lots, empty lots and shopping centers you have to drive to. Houston is finally sort of realizing the value in urban design.
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    For some reason I thought this was cancelled. Wasn't a downtown hotel recently cancelled? Anyway, good to see a big parking lot gone from downtown and from the inner city. When will we hear about all of those high end hotels they said we would see announced in Houston this year? Has work started on the Green Street Hotel? I thought they were supposed to start in July???
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    Greenway Plaza needs to be filled in with development like this.
  11. citykid09
    So is this officially, officially never happening?
  12. citykid09
    They should also look at the Atlantic Station development in Atlanta for inspiration.
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    I could understand if what was torn down was already walkable and urban, but it was a dirty old suburban style shopping center and old subruban style apartments. I know the HEB was really not built in an urban way, but it looks much better than a suburban strip center grocery store.
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    I hope to see some supertalls coming to Houston soon, but most of all I hope that Houston will continue the trend of building more urban style developments and never goes back to the days of stripmalls on every corner.
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    Love this! Just a few questions. Is this on the same lot that West Ave Phase III was going to be on? How close is this to the new Kirby Collection development? Who thinks Kirby is the new Post Oak Blvd, Rodeo Drive, or 5th Ave type street?
  16. citykid09
    This is really nice if you think about it. This area has gone from old run down apartments and a sleazy grocery store, to new urban apartments and a nice grocery store. If someone had moved away before the construction and came back they would not recognize the place.
  17. citykid09
    It’s not necessarily San Francisco’s MUNI rail that I am jealous of, it’s their BART rail. BART Their MUNI is still 100 times nicer then Houston's METRO, it also goes into a subway. MUNI If METRO had build Houston's light rail like this there would be no complaints from me.
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    Dallas is the 5th largest media market in the country, Houston is 10th. From the news clips that I have seen from the Dallas market, they seem to be more "big time" then the Houston market. The studio sets in DFW seem much more expensive to me, like what you would find in New York, Chicago or LA. But you are right, usually when people in the business leave Houston its for one of the big 3 markets or national. Many times they have the goal of just being in a top 10 market. Rank Metropolitan Market Regions / Areas 1 New York 2 Los Angeles 3 Chicago 4 Philadelphia 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth 6 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 7 Boston 8 Atlanta 9 Washington, DC 10 Houston
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    Why is everybody leaving abc13? for the past 1-2 years its been like a small town station where the people stay for a year or 2 and then leave. Is it the managment that they are not getting along with?
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    Do any of you see Park 8 making a come back now that Houston is booming? The design was very much Houston's old way of building highrises around the city (office parkish). I think if built today on that land that could come with something similar to city centre and it could become the more walkable Chinatown.
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    I don't believe in the superstitious stuff, but I would not want to live that close to a grave yard. They could have atleast put a tall fence inbetween their lot and the grave yard as well as put in a slim park behind the building for the residence to give some distance and just build taller.
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    Your talking about the Chicken Express near downtown Bryan? I remember that Krystal restaurant wa supposed to be the first of many throught Texas and the Houston area including Bryan-College Station. That never happened I don't know why, but I waited and waited.
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    If develpers can't put a 50+ story tower in Uptown, what area besides downtown would this guy see appropriate?
  24. citykid09
    This is ALL about obstructing his view. This guy acts like he lives in a small town. If he is so concerned about an ambulance making it in time in case he has a heart attack maybe he should move near the medical center.
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    You know the city requires 2 parking spots for a single family home because they say its needed because in Houston you have to drive everywhere you go. There are also so many parking spot requirments for each business. If the people in charge would undrestand that THIS requirement, poorly planned streets (only for vehicles not pedestrians, bikes, etc) and no shade tree requirement is the reason that Houston is being held off as a walkbale city, not heat and humidity.
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