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How about a Walmart like this with plenty of parking out front the area is underserved 😐🤷🏾‍♂️

Does anyone know if any neighborhoods have applied for walkable place designation?

1 hour ago, Skyboxdweller said:

I'm staring straight across from the fins as I type.  What you see is what you get.  It looks like the punched metal screening material that accents the fins has been installed. They have some scaffolding around this assembly now. 

So are they fully installed?

4 hours ago, thatguysly said:

Still waiting for the fins on top to really make this pop. It looks unfinished.

I said the same thing lol

3 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

The density in this part of town is pretty awesome. Are we the only city in Texas with these urban style HEB's? 

3 minutes ago, MidCenturyMoldy said:

Not that I know of.

I just looked it is one in downtown San Antonio but it's not a urban one.

Parking out front 🤔

2 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said:

The density in this part of town is pretty awesome. Are we the only city in Texas with these urban style HEB's? 

I think they have one in downtown San Antonio.

7 minutes ago, BEES?! said:

That is a seriously nice design. I like how they tied it in with the other buildings. So will they be connected up?

Let’s see, this one, The Hawthorne, and what is the other one?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Tanglewood-developer-plans-300-million-33-story-16380987.php#photo-21344964

3 new residential towers will be going up on San Felipe at the same time 😁

52 minutes ago, hindesky said:

Almeda bridge approach is getting the concrete and new pillars have been installed.

Hurry hurry I'm tired of making that uturn 🤦🏽‍♂️

1 hour ago, dbigtex56 said:

That seems to have become a 'thing' in Houston over the past 20 years or so. 
"I know! Let's slap some Hill Country limestone on the facade, and maybe people will think they're in Austin!" 

If you ever watch Rockets and Astros post and pre game shows on AT&T Sportsnet part of the set is limestone 😂

5 minutes ago, Big E said:

Austin is no real model to anyone on anything regarding traffic, highways, or transit, considering how bad its own traffic issues are, directly due to its lack of major north-south and east-west routes, how terrible and broken its own street grid is, its persistent suburban sprawl, and lagging transit. I-35 is a mess and probably does need to be rebuilt, especially the double decked portion. But the one thing this article makes supremely clear is that TxDOT is deafly afraid of even attempting to tunnel a highway, and will always throw that idea out first. Which makes the fact that they aren't planning to cap I-45 and I-69 themselves make all the more sense. Also, calling a freeway "racist and toxic" us just stupid. A freeway, by virtue of being a big slab of concrete, can be neither of those things. 

Like I said in a earlier post they should have went with a tunnel between the beltway and 610.

Can these lines be converted to rail later?

6 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

From what I understand reading the TOD guidelines, they are fully optional on secondary streets. That means they don’t have to front the street or take advantage of the 50% parking reduction. It’s really just an incentive to developers and it’s encouraged by the city to take advantage of the parking reduction. The rules are only mandatory on designated TOD streets. 

And I guess the walkable please designation picks up the slack on non TOD streets.

4 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Yeah the developer has the option to opt in and cut 50% of their parking requirement as a secondary street. And yes Richmond Ave is considered a TOD street because the CoH is viewing it as a future transit line. 

Cool I thought it didn't go into effect until the lines went in. 

So if they were to opt out does that just deal with just the parking on secondary streets or are secondary streets now required to have the buildings up against the road or can they opt out on setbacks as well?

7 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Montrose Blvd is considered a TOD secondary street, so hopefully whatever is built will take that in to consideration. 

Is it officially a TOD street even though the Richmond line isn't built yet. And by looking at the TOD map it's considered a secondary street. Does that mean they don't have to follow any of the TOD guidelines?

It would have been cool if they would have used Camachos idea to tunnel the freeway.

22 minutes ago, Luminare said:

If Houston could pull off the swagger Miami (minus the coke dealing) along with a flurry/touch of its aesthetic and appeal then I certainly wouldn't mind.

😂😂😂😭😭😭 I'm reading this post at the same time I'm watching Cocaine Cowboys on Netflix 😁😁😁😁

43 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said:

When you start getting support from guys like Mattress Mack and articles on the front page of the Chronicle then it's becoming much more than a vocal minority. I mean Mattress Mack had his sign lit up off I-45 with the words PEOPLE > CARS. 

He was against the Post Oak redo as well but it ended up getting rebuilt.

On 7/25/2021 at 8:17 AM, CaptainJilliams said:

Hey y’all, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on HAIF, and I’m not sure if this thread is the appropriate place for this video, but I thought it was an interesting discussion on transit/walkability that revolves around Houston (you can skip to 3:43 in the video if you want to get to the Houston stuff).

 

While I don’t agree with everything presented in the video, it literally hit home for me because of his area of study. Before I recently relocated to Chicago, I lived in Jersey Village for almost 2 years, and from what I can tell given his map and video footage, he looks to be near Willowbrook Mall (the In-and-Out gave it away for me). 
 

He does make several good points, granted his time is spent more in the suburbs I can see his criticism reverberate to other areas of the city, even within the loop. Most of his observations went over my head when I lived there, probably due to the fact that I have grown up in car culture. But I definitely recall the lack of sidewalks in many areas and the limited walkability that created in essence “islands” of walkability, stranding people.
 

Again, I think Houston is a complicated city to judge, so I think it’s open for discussion on how the city can make strides to improve walkability and other forms of transit that don’t revolve around the car. He does note that Houston has made improvements as of recent, so it’s not all negative. Definitely would love to hear people’s thoughts, Houston will always be a 2nd home for me and I miss it!

 

I watched this this morning.

7 hours ago, JLWM8609 said:

Central Automotive Group owns it. They also own Central Houston Cadillac's current location on Main.

Maybe they're shutting down central that's pretty close.

18 hours ago, thedistrict84 said:

This is a really cool and interesting photo, thanks for sharing. It is weird seeing the (then late model) work vehicles present at the job site and the number on the sign without an area code.

I thought the same thing with the area code lol

On 7/13/2021 at 1:30 PM, clutchcity94 said:

Atlanta’s Disco Kroger is also going down!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.winsightgrocerybusiness.com/amp/retailers/mirror-ball-wrecking-ball-atlantas-disco-kroger

Yeah saw I that lol

I was walking on Edgewood in Atlanta some months back and guess what there was a pole in the middle of the sidewalk 😏

6 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

I became passionate about Houston development when the Stros/Rockets built their new stadiums with the threat of possibly relocating. I remember the Cotswold project being the first project that got me excited about the possibilities downtown. Been a member pretty much since the beginning. 

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bellaire/news/article/The-Cotswold-Project-beautifies-Downtown-9803075.php

I didn't get on this site until 2005 officially I was following all that action on Clutch City/Clutch fans if those idiots wouldn't have took away my account back in the day at Clutch City  I probably would have been a 20 year member Lol