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  1. livincinco
    Way too early to judge the success of this project. Wait till we see what happens in the surrounding blocks over the next couple of years. I think that there is a good chance that additional retail development comes in to the south and the west.
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    They might be the second best team in the west right now, but I would love to see them trade a couple of their forwards for a decent back up center. They've got to reduce Yao's minutes during the regular season. They can't compete in the playoffs without a healthy Yao.
  3. livincinco
    From today's Chron - looks like the official opening is scheduled for Thursday. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...iz/6052683.html
  4. livincinco
    Is there an official opening date yet?
  5. livincinco
    Pictures???
  6. livincinco
    How can you say that so conclusively? The expansion of the GRB, the Hilton Americas, Discovery Green, Minute Maid and the Toyota Center are all in close proximity to each other. I don't see how you can say that the location of the stadiums was not a contributing factor to the development that is now occurring in that area. I think that there is an open question as to whether stadiums drive sufficient development to justify the public expense, but I would argue that there are too many cases of development that has occurred around downtown stadiums across the country to discount their contribution completely.
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    This is great. Keeps the positive momentum going in Downtown.
  8. livincinco
    Did you tell them - Yes, we liked it so much - we built a whole bunch of them!
  9. livincinco
    site plan for the redevelopment. http://www.fidelisrealtypartners.com/prope.../MarqEFLIER.pdf
  10. livincinco
    Strictly wishful thinking. Just appears from the outside that it was built with that option.
  11. livincinco
    I was walking by there today and it looks like the white concrete spaces could be opened up to street level retail. Can someone confirm if that is correct?
  12. livincinco
    There's a virtual tour on their website - www.hob.com. Looks great inside.
  13. livincinco
    Part of the reason that Houston has developed the way it has is that there are no natural constraints to prevent it from happening. Think about the geography of some of the cities that we're talking about. Manhattan, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Boston - all have had the growth of their downtown areas dictated by constraints of mountains, water or both. Atlanta, Phoenix, Houston - No geographic constraints on growth leading to sprawl. Suburbanites don't love their cars. Suburbanites love having a yard and being away from the noise of the city and are willing to accept their cars as a necessary sacrifice.
  14. livincinco
    Six degrees of Houston Pavilions?
  15. livincinco
    I don't think that's necessarily true. If you've got everything you need/want within walking distance and don't need a car, that's great. If you have/need a car, I don't think that the difference between 5 miles and 15 miles matters too much to people.
  16. livincinco
    I'm not sure I understand why those two lifestyles have to be mutually exclusive, especially in a city as large as Houston. The most recent statistic that I found showed that about 7.5% of employment in Houston was in the CBD. Apply that proportionately to the population and that would be a vibrant downtown population of about 450,000 with more than 5 million that could still live in the suburbs.
  17. livincinco
    A project that was upsized? That's going to be very disappointing to all the pessimists who complain that every project ends up smaller than planned.
  18. livincinco
    It becomes more appealing for retail once One Park Place and some of the other proposed residential development goes in downtown. It's walking distance for them.
  19. livincinco
    I know what you mean, but I've always had the feeling that those are "professional" vagrants instead of true homeless. Kind of a weird distinction I know, but I think that a lot of them are sleeping under a roof somewhere.
  20. livincinco
    Not really, the whole thing doesn't make any sense anyway, so why worry about little things like that?
  21. livincinco
    I've seen panhandlers down around 59 and Chimney Rock also, but I don't see them at night. By comparison, I was in downtown San Antonio a couple of weeks ago and there seemed like there were homeless sleeping all over the place. I know that this is totally subjective, just curious if anyone had the same experiences.
  22. livincinco
    I don't spend a lot of time downtown, but from what I've seen, I would agree that Houston seems to have a pretty small homeless population downtown, at least in comparison to other major cities. Is that true?
  23. livincinco
    My opinion is that everything about HP to this point looks like its designed to be an entertainment center for the GRB. If you want to drive convention traffic, they have to have someplace to go in the evenings.
  24. livincinco
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  25. livincinco
    Shall we move on to a discussion of shrubbery next?
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