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  1. htownproud
    i agree that living in a downtown environment means giving up easy access to a wide variety of things. Usually you are only in easy walking distance of one grocery store, and in general those stores are much smaller than the huge grocery stores most Houstonians are used to. You can walk to perhaps two convenience stores, but again they are much smaller. And it's a super pain to try to go to a place like Target or Home Depot. Of course in return, you can walk to most everything you need to get by and there is a vibrant interaction with the City and your neighbors. That said,I think that most people (not all) like the wider selection of goods and easy access to them, which is why cities like Houston and similar cities are growing much faster than the dense urban centers (and in particular, why the suburbs and near suburbs in these cities are growing).
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    Marvy went to an Astros game and realized people really don't want to live near the ballpark.
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    The signs alone aren't arrogant. But i see them as representing arrogance because i associate them with the entire movement's attitude towards the development and the reasons it should be stopped. I'm not going to rehash the arguements on the previous 29 pages, but needless to say I don't support the stop Ashby highrise movement. And regardless of how I view the signs, I stll can't imagine that people are in favor of yard signs up for three years and beyond. What purpose are they serving at this late date? Would you feel different if someone in the area put a rusty car on cinder blocks in the front yard and painted stop ashby highrise on the sides and left it there for three years?
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    Poe is a good school, and I agree that the reason it doesn't do better is the multi-family on the north side of 59. But having ugly, arrogant signs in your yard for three years is a problem. It's like a house leaving up christmas decorations for three years, but it's an entire neighborhood. If you don't see that, wow. Just wow.
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    what will really make the property go up is requiring the locals to remove the yellow monster signs from their yards. I looked to buy in the area this past spring, and bought elsewhere in part because of the signs and the arrogance they represent (more b/c of Poe though).
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    I had not noticed before that it will have what appears to be a circle drive off Louisiana.
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    Yes, it's the same unfortunate place that was there before. Disappointing.
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    Ideally it would be neither, as the tunnels killed street life in downtown. That said, if I was building a Class A building, I would want to be connected to the tunnels. Houstonians love their air conditioned walkway (even if they have to walk an extra 10 minutes to simply get across the street).
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    I doubt it will be connected to the tunnels -- that part of downtown has poor access. Of course that is why this area of town actually has street level restaurants -- the tunnels have really killed downtown residential/retail (as has been pointed out in numerous other threads).
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    Burger King and Jack in the Box are both about 300 or 400 yards away as well.
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    why dry cleaner? i love the one on gray and taft. juan mon's was okay food, but i didn't think much of the location. not visible enough from major streets -- i would always forget it was there.
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    It's not my cup of tea, but it's a lot better than if they had just made the top of the glass middle section flush with the two stucco sides.
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    there is no plan to move HQ to Houston on the horizon. not saying it won't happen 20+ years down the road, but not in the immediate future
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    One of the problems with this building is there is nothing around it, compared to the other Class A office towers in downtown (and no tunnel access, although I hate the tunnels). That said, this part of downtown appears to be picking up though, so perhaps they can get the high paying tenants.
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    There is still plenty of industrial land on and around Washington if someone wants to build mixed use on it.
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    Heard the developer of Sky House speak this morning. He stated that very shortly they will be pouring a floor every three days. Seems crazy fast to me, but he was confident. It is called Sky House b/c there will be a house at the top with all of the amenities (gym, kitchen, etc.) and a large pool (sorry if this is somewhere else on this thread already).
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    Walmart. 106 pages of comments on the Heights/Walmart page can't be wrong. The City could enter a 380 agreement to fund tunnel improvements. Nothing controversial with those.
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    Leonard -- that HEB is in a neighborhood. This Walmart was built on a toxic dump. If you want to build your home immediately adjacent to a heavily industrialized toxic dump, with heavy rail going through it to boot, don't complain when a Walmart spruces up the area. (I would not have wanted the Target built at Dunlavy either, but again, the Target was built in the middle of factories, warehouses, and a heavy recycling center.)
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    Here's my two cents, which I admit are simply my perspective. I live in Montrose. I used to shop at Target, but I recently made the decision to only go to Walmart from now on. For most Saturday errands, I was going to Target first, and then having to go to Walmart as well b/c Target didn't have everything that I needed. And then I would kick myself b/c I would see that the things that I had purchased at Target were cheaper at Walmart (Walmart saves me trips to Home Depot as well). I would also say that the area around Walmart is much nicer than it was three years ago, and nicer than the area around Target. I don't know about the 380 agreement, or the bridge, or whether the area became nice b/c of the Walmart or in spite of the Walmart. None of that matters to me -- I'm just happy to have the Walmart there.
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    I hope that retail makes it, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Maybe a single convenience store could make it there. Obviously if more residential (or even offices) pop-up over there, then maybe additional retail could survive.
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    We need a Treasures in the tunnels.
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    Agreed on the new tower. No way HQ moves here. All the execs I know there love San Ramon way too much.
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    My understanding is that it's a great way for a non-profit to sit on tax free property and let the value appreciate. Total scam.
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    the rumor at Chevron is that some employees are getting moved into one of the Allen Centers because Chevron is at capacity in its two buildings and what it has at Continental. hence, why Chevron will be building a new tower. if any areas in the Chevron buildings are empty, my guess is that Chevron is redoing the build out for some reason (perhaps to hold more folks until the new building is complete).
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    you are correct that most of downtown is not a ghetto, but i hope you get my point (and what I think was 102IAH's point, although I don't want to put words in his mouth). why would you walk farther, while be accosted more, just to go to worse theater. it makes no sense. and for what it's worth, dealing with bums during the business day on crowded streets is not quite the same as walking your date home at midnight on near vacant downtown streets. . . .
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