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  1. livincinco
    Normally I'm opposed to tearing down buildings and replacing them with surface parking, but in this case, I'd be willing to make an exception.
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    I love this idea because I think that it creates exactly the kind of symbol that we all would like to see this city have. Taking something that was futuristic and innovative at the time that it was built and repurposing it into something that is futuristic and innovative. If it could be developed in a way to utilize the sunken floor, that would mitigate a lot of the cost. This could also be used as a great festival space which was one of Ed Emmett's earlier ideas.
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    I believe that the occupancy rate you have used though is the occupancy rate you is the rate for the city, not the rate for downtown, which has the highest occupancy in the city. There are a couple of other numbers that I would question, but I don't know where you got your numbers from and I certainly don't know what the right answers are. I would suggest though that since Marriott has two brands in the building already then they should be able to project revenue and cost with a pretty high degree of accuracy. With that kind of data available, I would be really surprised if there's a high element of risk here.
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    So...we'll devote 100's of posts complaining about every bland design in the city, but when something truly cool (like the Asia House) gets built, virtually no comments?
  5. livincinco
    That was the best six minutes of my day!
  6. livincinco
    Do you mean this thread? http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/27694-grand-texas-theme-park-new-caney/?hl=%2Btheme+%2Bpark
  7. livincinco
    I don't know if it's really fair to imply that this is a problem that is specific to Houston, because this kind of demolition of historic stadiums has happened all across the US. Does anyone know of a successful example of repurposing a facility like this?
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    It makes sense to me. They are taking an 82 unit apartment complex and converting it to a 166 unit hotel so I think that there is significant revenue gain in that. It's walking distance to most of the major companies in downtown, it's located across the street from Pavilions, and it's directly on the light rail, so that strikes me as a pretty good location for a mid-range business hotel. Also, as they reference in the article, there should be significant economies of scale because they can consolidate operations for all three brands in the building. Not so close to the convention center, but I'm guessing that they probably run shuttles to the Convention Center already, so there won't be incremental cost there. I know that there are a lot of people disappointed by the loss of residential, but I do think that there's a lot of upside to increasing the number of hotel rooms in downtown.
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    I grew up in L.A. Memorial Park still has more mature trees than any park there.
  10. livincinco
    It looks bad if you compare it to what it was before, but you're right, it's still pretty great as urban parks go.
  11. livincinco
    Never thought I would see the day that construction of a McDonalds got this much attention.
  12. livincinco
    Clearly a sign that Apple is relocating their entire workforce to Houston and that this is the first of many buildings planned.
  13. livincinco
    Hopefully this will create a temporary lull in the "nothing cool ever gets built in Houston" comments.
  14. livincinco
    I meant it as an abbreviation for no more.
  15. livincinco
    I sense a new slogan - NoMo NoDo!
  16. livincinco
    Texas has a huge amount of recognition pretty much everywhere in the world for all of the reasons that you mentioned above. I can absolutely see why they would want to utilize all of that brand equity instead of trying to create something completely new and different.BTW, they have a website up. http://www.grandtexas.net/grandtexasthemeparkB.html
  17. livincinco
    I was going for trying to reduce the amount of traffic that moves on Westheimer. It's probably the best street in Houston in terms of having a mix of shops and restaurants that lend themselves to walking around, but crossing it can be pretty scary.
  18. livincinco
    IMO, that part of Westheimer would be perfect for a greenroads project. Reduce it to one lane each direction, widen the sidewalks, and route the through traffic to Richmond or Gray.
  19. livincinco
    I know that CityCentre took plenty of hits on this forum, but if Midway can get this even close to the success of City Centre. It will be a huge improvement.
  20. livincinco
    Don't care is probably more accurate.
  21. livincinco
    The Chronicle is reporting that construction will begin during the first half of 2013. http://www.chron.com/kingwood/news/article/Generation-Park-to-bring-more-than-100-000-jobs-4290344.php?cmpid=houtexhcat
  22. livincinco
    I was thinking more of overall entertainment options in the context of places like LA Live or CityWalk in LA. Those are primarily restaurant and entertainment driven places that have become "destinations" for a night out. The difference with LA Live is that it's built literally around the Staples Center which has three professional teams that constantly drive traffic.
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    Has anything happened in the last five years that should make any of us feel like HP is capable of supporting significant retail? IMO, Pavilions is (and may always be) a dining and entertainment complex that has a minor retail component. Regarding whether downtown can support two movie theaters, there were a lot of people that also questioned whether downtown could support two grocery stores, but that seems to be going pretty well. What kills me about HP is the lack of development that has occurred between there and Discovery Green/Toyota Center. There are about five blocks that would seem to be prime opportunities for development. Anybody know why that hasn't happened?
  24. livincinco
    I would think that there would have been a press release if those were actual tenants.
  25. livincinco
    I don't think that the Books a Million space is big enough for iPic, so that could be a significant additional win as well if it happens. IPic runs 43-46k sq feet in their theaters and it looks like the Books a Million space is 23k.
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