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how do they get the cars on the roof like that?

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There are two long black stone fountains between the pavilion and the library

I thought that was what it was....so it is like a reflecting pool with a very thin cascade down the side or some similar setup...thanks for reply

what is the large black rectangle?

it looks like over night someone bumped or repositioned the cam so now it barely catches the west edge of the park and nothing of the ice....it would possibly be interesting if any of the cranes were running....but as of now it is just staring at buildings and a bit of traffic

I like your slippers dad

they should put a bounty on nutria like Louisiana and like wild hogs in east Texas

I would just assume not hear these stories on here I can get all the gloom and doom on the news if I want it and I doubt anyone on here would have any extra to add to it unless they saw it and could add the gory details I would just assume not hear about as well

and people off themselves in public as a cry for attention of in a failed attempt to make others "experience their pain" as well....it is just extra selfishness on their part

Blah... sounds like it's not even worth going there. No thanks.

so if you can't eat, drink, make noise, talk on your phone, and look at porn you are out huh

Mosaic's developer files Chapter 11 protection

The developer of the Mosaic condominium tower on the edge of Hermann Park has filed for bankruptcy protection, another sign that the national recession and credit crunch is affecting the Houston real estate market.

The developer, 5925 Almeda North Tower LP, made the Chapter 11 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Monday. Assets were listed at $85 million and debts at almost $52 million.

The Mosaic project was announced in 2005 and twin towers were developed at the 5925 Almeda site.

The second tower, which is not part of the bankruptcy, is still under construction. It was recently renamed Montage and the units there will be rented as apartments.

full article

wow one has to wonder how one tower being bankrupt and one tower not will work.....can't be good though for some reason I think the non-renatl one being the bankrupt one is better than the other way around

Hm, what would be funny about this??

because then they would be in an area where they are welcomed and out of an area where they are not welcomed.....you seem to find joy in the possibility that myself and another might be taking an investment hit because of losers and trash and you seem to relish their "culture" so why not solve the issue by transfering that culture to your area where you can tolerate them and enjoy their "rich culture" and have it influence your kids daily and make conversation with your wife.....after all what is the big deal they are just people with a different manor of dress, different habits about drinking, different ways of looking at trash disposal, different views on how to treat the places where they live, different opinions on work, and have a few issues with controling their violent ways.....and you seem to welcome it and be very tolerant of it.....they should thrive in an enviornment like yours VS being oppressed in an envoirnment like I would provide for them with all those pesky rules and expectations and puritan cultural clashes

and what is really funny about it is just as I suspected when I even mentioned these scum bags and your area your attitude about them suddenly changed

It would be funny if TV Johnny were one of the 150 financiers.

if that was the case something would be done about it

what I would find funnier is that when something is done about it the people that are trashing the place invade your area and prey upon you and yours.....that would be a hoot

I thought Lidz was a marijuana store

Yeah, but what about swilling expensive beer while walking down major streets? I know your thoughts, but I'm curious what his are! And if he has a problem with that as well, I wonder why he bothered to make the distinction!

since I have never seen people swilling expensive beer walking down the streets that does not seem to be an issue....I have seen one guy stealing expensive beer after a major storm though, but that was a different deal

and the vast majority of those I see swilling the cheap beer on major streets in the middle of the day should probably be a lot less concerned with alcohol consumption and more concerned with finding a job

Sure but you don't have to denigrate everybody else's ethnicity/culture to do it.

I didn't I denigrated those that can't find pants that fit, learn to use a belt, refrain from swilling cheap beer while walking down major streets, tear up everything they live around, commit crimes all around their area, thump their music to disturb their neighbors, join gangs, pimp, ignore education, refuse to work, abuse social aid programs and the like

it is others on here that suddenly try and call that "culture" or say that describes one race or another....I don't, I denigrate all that do it no matter who they are or what color, race, or ethnic makup they are....those are not "cultural" norms they are antisocial ignorance that the vast majority of civilized society wants no part of that is why they move away or avoid the area when people who behave this way start to show up in large numbers

I suppose you'd prefer your racism guilt free?

can't I just call it ethnic pride or a desire to socially interact with my culture like so many others can?

Us suburban "seedy types" are still reading these messages.

and many of us are ever more glad we built that inner containment barrier loop so long ago!

Apparently you are determined to dislike Discovery Green and completely miss the point.

-- Again, people will be quite able to fight their way by all the fortress buildings to get to Discovery Green, just as they do to get to Bryant Park, etc. etc. etc.

-- The development plans/vision INCLUDE additional residential high-rise development to the north of Discovery Green.

-- The downtown vision includes further residential development of a low to mid-rise nature to the south of Discovery Green.

It is a little hard to determine exactly what your issue is, other than for whatever reason you have decided to dislike Discovery Green and continue to insist it cannot be successful even in the face of all of the evidence to the contrary. Is it that there is insufficient residential in the immediate area? Is it that people will not be able to ind their way into the park because it will be surrounded on all sides by tall buildings? In this latest post you seem to be arguing that it needs to have a destination institution such as a museum in or next to the park, (which, by the way directly contradicts your earlier bizarre requirement . . . that it cannot succeed as a destination but only as something that people happen upon on their way somewhere else).

Further, do you really think Bryant Park thrives only because of the library? Far from it. It's success has very little to do with the library being next door. (FWIW, it is also surrounded by tall buildings. However does anyone ever get into that place?) Or Central Park only because of the museums or Millennium Park only because of the nearby Art Institute? They and others all thrive because of things going on in the parks themselves. Yes, some of that is the dreaded "programming". Whatever. It has been working well for quite some time, hasn't it?

I believe your attempts to reason with it will fail

I don't want to see it either, and generally don't look. But more than boxers showing, I hate seeing cr*ck! I hate it.

But I also hate seeing people with tattoos, people wearing house shoes outside, and people with rollers in their hair outside.

But again, it's not that big a deal and if that is how they want to present themselves to the world, God bless 'em.

that is all fine and good.....but some come on these forums and vilify those who judge those people and the areas they trash as some place they find no desire to be a part of

you know they "judge" you for having an opinion on what is acceptable.....but have no acceptance for the fact that you might not desire to be any part of it....they imply that only wealthy white people would dare cast a disapproving glance at some things or pull out the race card....you know implying that only certain races do those behaviors (you know it is called stereotyping) but that is all ok because they are the crusaders for the acceptance of the down fall of society and the rest of us are just ALL WHITE snobs and elitist.........the wonders of the "open minded"

What offends you about an undergarment, dear Puritan?

because I don't want to see some fools dirty boxers or some whores thong and I don't think people with kids should have their kids exposed to that......we wear cloths in America as they do in the vast majority (all) of the civilized countries in the world.....even in liberal europe where topless on the beach is acceptable I am sure most would think one is a fool if they walked around with their pants down to their knees especially if they knew it was imitating prison life...obviously the whole "civilization" thing has been lost on you

People wear all sorts of ridiculous casual clothes. Its not a very good judge of a man.

Says who? Says you?

You may be right about that, but Texas has a lot of dumb blue laws.

there is a vast difference between silly cloths and exposed undergarments....why am I not surprised you don't understand the difference....and yes appearence in public is often a good judge of a person....if you look like a clown you are probably a clown....if you look like a fool you are probably a fool....if you look like you just got down working hard doing construction you probably just got done working hard doing construction

says the vast majority of people who choose to avoid living in areas frequented by people walking down the streets drinking from 40s

and yea....TEXAS is the ONLY place on earth where you can't walk down the street drinking from a 40......we are SO backwards

Not everyone owns a car so that they can drive to a hoity toity bar and drink hidden from the prying eyes of others. Some people can't afford that. Some people like to drink a 40. Walking home drinking a 40 does not limit your potential in society, and walking home from the corner store is not a job interview.

some people can find an excuse for any behavior.....I suppose next you will tell us about people who can't find pants that fit, afford a belt, or have a shirt to wear in public.....much less control their desires to destroy where they live and its surroundings

walking anywhere drinking a 40 in public makes you look like a moron and most people have the self control to wait until they get home before they crack open their cheap booze

I am pretty sure that walking down the street drinking is illegal as well, but not 100% sure....but I am 100% sure it makes you look like a loser

Thanks very much, photolitherland. To others - Instead of worrying about this project a person might do better to worry about the national convention business itself drying up. The dollars we use only have provisional value, and none of the national policymakers D or R is publicly 'fessing up to the central fact: Just as surely as the new easy jackpots all dried up when we stopped being able to spend tomorrow's money today, so will discretionary spending vanish when these new stimulus dollars start adjusting to reflect the value by which they're less and less hypothetically backed. And with discretionary spending goes most of the cultural lagniappe that we think of as regular civilization. Returning to the smaller subject, people who care about Houston urbanism shouldn't be dismayed, because conventioneers don't make for good neighborhood fabric any more than convention megastructures do. The available space downtown was what it was, but for educational purposes let's imagine how much livelier and more worthwhile the Discovery Green area would be with even a short block and a half or so of neighborhood variety in between the edge of the park and the convention center wall. Bigbiz districts pressure against exactly that sort of flow. Efficiency does not produce good places, dig?

Speaking of which, less than half of Big D is north of the Trinity - who said anything was hiding? While it's in straits in some places, most of what I've seen is livable for precisely the reason that it aint streamlined into efficiency in the usual ways that fail to leave good places for people. Maybe Oak Cliff is undersold compared to Houston like Houston is undersold compared to that wannabe-northeastern-coast city. In the cracks of each of the places' publicity, Texans get to flourish. If the Sixth Ward flowed all the way to Westcott, with perfect Allen Parkway skyline-bayou views, it would unquestionably be more beloved to Houstonians than the Heights, Rice Village or Montrose get to be. That's basically what I experience in a huge triangle all the way from the Zoo to the Sylvan Viaduct. If you mean that South Dallas is tucked out of the way, remember that there is not a city in America where business and residential growth have expanded farther toward downstream than up. Let him whose out-of-town visitors spend much time east of Highway 288 cast the first stone.

I wouldn't count on us having much more to discuss about this development proposal for many moons.

yes because our heads will hurt for many moons from reading your post

I've come to realize that I hate veiled racism a bit more than the bare, unadultered kind.

Guys, just say blacks and mexicans. Everyone already knows who you're talking about.

just because "black and Mexican" pops into your head when you hear stories of areas filled with crime and areas that have been trashed does not mean you have to transfer your guilt about thinking that to the rest of us.....if you hate it being veiled then come right out and admit that is what comes into your mind......or is that what your post was trying to admit

40 dollar oil would have been a God send just 6 years back so Houston can still do quite well with 40 dollar oil anything over 30 is enough to keep most projects running and allow for new exploration on a small basis....even a few years back 25 was the goal to keep things running

looking at the chart above oil has RARELY been over 30 a barrel and often well under that and Houston has survived even when it was much more dependent on oil than it is today

the consumption of energy is not going away....and if the price stays too low too long and exploration is cut then that will only lead to what we have seen recently which is a massive spike in price when people see that there is a shortage because new resources have not kept up with consumption...Houston is a boom and bust town that is what has helped make it the special place it is....Texas in general is the same be it cotton, cows, or oil only now people are more and more realizing this and not being so crazy in the good times so they are ready for the bad....but no matter what we will survive and when things come roaring back we will just survive better and have more fun doing it

I took some pictures of the hotel plus some of the area west of the galleria but I am not sure how to upload them. I have a flickr account if that helps.

when you "reply" down on the right there is a button that says "browse" you hit it and find the photo on your storage medium on your computer and then hit "upload" and after a bit of hour glass you will see it listed as an attachment

then when you hit "add reply" it is there in your reply