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  1. kdog08
    Some simple landscaping would do wonders, I'm thinking lots of pine and other native trees.
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    While most of these office buildings are mainly glass boxes in some variety, there's a lot of LEED office buildings going up that it appears to be the norm so hurrah for the environment. I'm no real estate expert but when would we be seeing a shift to more LEED upgrades and new buildings for class B and below?
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    A very pleasant surprise.
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    I think a lot of people here are confusing the presence of rail with actual efficient rail. I personally think DART overbuilt rail, as what makes DART "successful" also harms it. Lots of rail to it's many member cities and using abandoned freight lines makes for low ridership per mile. Over investing in rail at the expense of the infrastructure to support rail and a total transit system will have it's consequences. DART is a case of building rail where the people aren't and METRO unable to build rail where the people are (that being a very general statement). Public transit use between metros isn't all that different.
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    There's a big world out there, a big public transit world out there..... That's a pretty lame excuse.
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    Bottomline, this line would connect to dense centers with hundreds of thousands of workers/visitors/residents/students etc to another "dense" center with hundreds of thousands of workers/visitors/residents/students etc while passing through a "dense" center tens of thousands of workers/visitors/residents/students etc. This thing needs to be built so we can continue to build an actual system.
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    These surface lots will soon be gone.
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    I do enjoy this type of plan, convert it to some sort of park/flexible use with Texans and HLSR. I don't think it necessarily needs to be completely indoors as we can go a lot of different ways with the Astrodome as the centerpiece.
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    There are still affordable places, they are just shifting. I think Westheimer, if nurtured properly, could become populated and offer an alternative to inside the loop. I have quite a few friends that live alongside or very close to Westheimer, there are lots of apartments especially at interesections like Fondren, HIllcroft, Gesnner, Wilcirest, Diary Ashford that were once lower income and now being refurbished for under 1000k per month for a 1 BR.
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    I wouldn't mind this exact tower downtown, hopefully they follow the Skyhouse trend.
  11. kdog08
    Great news. I wish more of these non-profits and quasi-governmental groups would share the same building.
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    Texas has always been more conservative. A southern democrat is conservative. I believe cities and states become more progressive as they urbanize as density usually begets more rules. Not that is necessarily a bad thing if we can balance a better built environment with pro business environment.
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    Heck with shrubs, but plenty of cities accommodate mature trees. The more I travel the more I realize that Houston's "libertarian" and "free market" philosophy is just an excuse to go cheap. You would think with how well Montrose has been doing this past decade they would have similar TIRZ management districtt to Midtown or Kirby, but they seem to be utterly corrupt.
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    For that up and close touch, MMmmmmmmHmmmm.
  15. kdog08
    This all depends on what you could consider a worse situation: building a lot rail where the people aren't/aren't going to or very little rail, with little hope for more rail anytime soon, where the people are. Personally, I prefer Houston's situation hands down if we had some hope for a University Line before this decade is over.
  16. kdog08
    Great, this area needs to continue to add density.
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    Looking good!
  18. kdog08
    So wait, where is Mid Main office/garage going up relative to this? edit: Nevermind. However, Mid Main will take up two total blocks with office and residential?
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    This. I don't think inner city public golf courses make much sense in the inner city. I wish they would convert it to several baseball fields, soccer fields, and tennis/bball if there's room. Be awesome to have more youth and adult sports leagues.
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    Sigh. I understand funding is a big issue for this but I wish we could do better with our parking solutions for our marque park.
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    Midtown TIRZ FTW! Makes Montrose TIRZ looks like a pile of incomptent/corrupt crap.
  22. kdog08
    Not bad. Med Center quietly adding density.
  23. kdog08
    This is good news. We need more of this type of development along Westheimer and hopefully we can add a Quickline bus route (like Bellaire Blvd) in a few years.
  24. kdog08
    Perhaps it's a timing issue? Lots of units going up in the area.
  25. kdog08
    I would like more public-private partnerships with parking garages among the TIRZs along the Main St line. Houstonians who visit downtown will still need a place to park as surface lots make way for better use.
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