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3 Allen Center?

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I ride the lightrail to work everyday and the only thing that has ever bothered me is when people clip their finger/toe nails.

So does this mean Design Within Reach will be relocating?

In addition to the parking there's also a small concentric park on the southwest corner of the parking lot.

Also from my window, I have noticed over the past couple of monthes another cleared site along the north side of lower Washington Ave where it splits towards downtown and becomes Preston St. There's also a large 4-5 storey concrete warehouse (visable from 45N) that looks to have been renovated during the early part of this year that looks to be part of the development. Here's a google street view.

Is this another city owned property for sale?

I'll post a pic later tonight.

From my window I have noticed over the past month that a couple of double storey warehouses have been cleared on what looks like two separate parcels along Gillette St. north of Dallas St.

I'll post pics later tonight.

Anyone with info, please post up.

I was in the area last weekend, does anyone know what the parcel directly south from the phase I bldg is intended for?

The site I speak of has been cleared and it has a couple of boolean merged cylinders in the above rendering. It also looks like the existing bldg on the site is being demo'd by the looks of it's empty fenestration.

AB InBev brands of relevance:

Bass

Beck's

Bohemia

Budweiser

Bud Light

Corona

Goose Island Brewery

Hop Hound Amber Wheat

Labatt

Michelob

Modelo

Natural Light

Pacifico

Red Bridge

Rolling Rock

Shock Top

Spaten

St. Pauli Girl

Stella Artois

Stone Mill Pale Ale

Tsingtao

ZiegenBock

Dang.

Why should they give any regard to the existing streets and bldgs?

Look at the lower left hand side of the picture. You can see the semicircular frame of what used to be the Days Inn sign and logo.

There are a couple of birds of prey that have nested in the sign frame this spring. They spend most of the clear days swooping about the street canyons in search of flocks of small migrating birds.

^Boyscouts

^Pub Fiction

The windows are almost all taken out now, exposing the safety orange columns. A huge hole is now where the black tar paper was exposed in the above photos. I'll upload my pics at a later date.

Too bad they couldn't have built a pkg garage across the street to abut the firewall of the Wedge tower.

Are they doing electrical tests? I noticed at night the emergency lights flashing up the building.

Also it looks like they are almost done with the top 4 floors and the crown "fin" lighting at the top has a cool blue fluoresent glow.

I'm not wild about the choice of CMU walls nor bamboo forests.

My suggestion: A tectonic design using stainless steel chain-link fencing with varied privacy inserts.

ok, my lunchbreak is over but it's good to be back on the forum.

There's a growing number of empty build-outs in the tunnel system too.

names PM me, I have something of interest to you.

There is a whole litany of examples of contemporary modernists that break the modernist starchitect mold (not to mention a vast literary repudiation of it). Off the top of my head, the work of the late Samuel Mockbee at Auburn and here in Houston the project row houses with the addition of the Zerohouse.

@TheNiche: It's strange knowing that we've probably crossed paths before and I appreciate your thoughtful posts but I know names personally and she is quite a character at times FYI (LOL at the time stamp, projects due huh? )

Not true. When I moved to Sugar Land almost 25 years ago I used to complain about lack of food choices. No more. And we still don't have low income apartments. 

Sugar Land has very affordable apartments off Lexington.

Sorry, not buying that. In that case explain Manhattan. Average cost of housing in Manhattan is 4 times the national average and I haven't heard anyone complaining about shortages of restaurants or businesses there.

Manhattan has many market distortions like Rent Control.

Katy is under served by restaurants because of its inability to deliver a weekday lunch crowd, not lack of workers.

The proposed site location is close to I-10 thereby extending the potential job placements farther east-west than the immediacy of just Katy.

I perceive a classic rejection of modernism in the phenomena of a "white flight" vibe from the thread starter and dog whistle casting in some of the other supporting posters and mayor's comment. That's just my perception but it colors the way people interpret the dynamics of the potential situation.

Frankly, the residents who oppose this development should join together and buy the property outright. Simple. Easy. Done.

This idea of being able to "shame" developers into not doing their job because of the perceived fear of property valuations dropping, increased criminal activity, or lower school grades are rather huge assumptions to make without empirical data to back up these beliefs. It really does sound from the outsider's POV that economic segregation is some sort of right of property ownership, I do not agree. Developers may build to that market mentality but it is not the norm. Building tall fences and installing security stations around the affluent neighborhoods is the most common way of securitization if your truly concerned that the residents of the low income apartments are going to victimize single family residencies.

Wasn't remotely credible enough to be believed. Should've been an Exxon decision to consolidate downtown and to move their corporate HQ here as well.

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