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  1. gmac
    Maybe for rich people. None of these are accessible to anyone in the middle class.
  2. gmac
    $1800+/month for a studio?
  3. gmac
    I believe he was just pointing out your faulty assumptions, not making light of anything. Don't get wound up about it, just come up with something more accurate.
  4. gmac
    20.6" in 35 hours over Westfield, TX. Houston reported 5.52" of rain. Satsuma in northwest Harris County had 16.49" of rain. Bayous were 52 feet above normal. The city's pumping station was unable to supply water for a few days and the city had no protection against fire. Buffalo Bayou at Houston 54.4 feet with 40,000 cfs. Buffalo Bayou at Addicks 85.6'. 2/3 of rural Harris County was flooded. Halls Bayou was over its banks. Spring and Cypress Creeks were out of their banks. This was in December 1935. Not a helluva whole lot of concrete to the west and north of Houston then, as far as I know. 30"-50" of rain is going to wreak flooding havoc on ANY city.
  5. gmac
    Pretty cool looking school.
  6. gmac
    They weren't part of my social circle. To be fair, most of them weren't from huge cities, either.
  7. gmac
    I've never had one visitor mention "walkable neighborhoods" to me. I have show dozens of people around town, and they mostly remark on how green the city is and how many restaurants we have.
  8. gmac
    Interior of the bank from UH archives <img src="http://digital.lib.uh.edu/contentdm/image/standard/p15195coll16/231/500/320/15.051173991571/0/0/0/0" alt="" /> Also a short story about the demolition on p2 of this report -- http://offcite.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/1983/09/EasementDownTheRoad_Barna_Cite4.pdf
  9. gmac
    Hey! A 570sf studio for only $1800! Nice looking building, though.
  10. gmac
    In a perfect world, that $6 billion would get you about 60 miles of light rail at $100 mill. a mile. For something pretty useless to many people.
  11. gmac
    Putting someone on ignore kind of defeats the purpose of a discussion board. It turns it into a circlejerk of like opinions where you pat each other on the back and marvel over what wonderful chaps and lasses you are. You are all entitled to your opinion on this, and every other subject, just as you're entitled to argue with a differing opinion. If you don't want to hear differing opinions, I suggest you lock yourself in the airing cupboard and have at it.
  12. gmac
    Therein lies the rub. There is no value in spending more to build something "nice" if you don't have the money to do so. I would imagine if some kind soul with a strong interest in preservation had offered the nuns a plan AND a massive infusion of cash, they would have considered it.
  13. gmac
    Oooo, no thanks.
  14. gmac
    Sorry, I just don't think $1300+ for a tiny studio is a great thing. But hey, I'm probably not their target socioeconomic level.
  15. gmac
    Bright and cheery! I like it. Adds some color to downtown.
  16. gmac
    More expensive, ugly apartments. Yay.
  17. gmac
    I certainly don't disagree with you. I was simply pointing out the error of the quoted post.
  18. gmac
    Defined as: "the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings." I don't see anything in the dictionary definition that requires historical preservation for something to be "architecture".
  19. gmac
    My goodness, you're having a hissy fit. Quelle horreur! It's a v e r y long stretch to come up with what you wrote, based on that simple post.
  20. gmac
    It says the GHP spent $8.5 million to get fancy new offices, so they can better welcome important visitors. https://www.houston.org/partnershiptower/
  21. gmac
    That looks like Bridgeland's school cluster. https://communityimpact.com/houston/education/2016/04/20/education-village-concept-takes-form-site-cfisds-12th-high-school-bridgeland/
  22. gmac
    Why not? Downtown has been subsidized forever.
  23. gmac
    At least! They need to be punished for being too poor to afford high-rise living. Peasants.
  24. gmac
    Good move by Shell. Savings will be significant.
  25. gmac
    20 million bucks to make sure the poor darlings don't get rained on. I don't see them building anything to stop fee-paying students getting crapped on while their pockets are picked. And another thing -- you kids get off my lawn!
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