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  1. htownproud
    I will give it this---the grey stucco matches nicely with many of the new town homes nearby.
  2. htownproud
    Okay, the current building is a dilapidated run down hole in the wall surrounded by homeless people. It is not pleasant to see when you drive by or ride by on the train.
  3. htownproud
    Wow. This place is currently such an eyesore. Wow.
  4. htownproud
    I had the same thought about financing, but if they are advertising the hotel as an Intercontinental, that gives me a bit more confidence that this could be serious.
  5. htownproud
    There is also the 9-story forensic building that has already broken ground
  6. htownproud
    Still no GFR (at least that I can see from the train). I assume that examples like this (and the 3 year wait at post midtown 3) is why developers are reluctant to include it.
  7. htownproud
    well sir, since you know a "LOT" of bicyclists, I will defer to you. but i've seen plenty of bicyclists and pedestrians (myself included) reach out and hit cars when they believe the cars aren't watching out for them.
  8. htownproud
    not surprisingly, i saw my first auto/bike wreck this morning on the corner of Lamar and Louisiana. The rider was stopped at the light going east, and the car was turning left on Lamar from Louisiana and was making his turn just as his light was turning red. the bike's front wheel was bent badly, but the biker didn't even get knocked over, so no one injured. in my opinion, both were at fault. the car shouldn't have tried to beat the light, but the biker saw the guy turning left but didn't want to wait 1 second to go (it almost looked like he wanted to hit the car, as some bikers seem to want to do to prove a point). in any event, glad no one was hurt, but I'm sure this won't be the last accident. just a reminder to be aware of your surroundings. I wait a second to go at each light after they turn green in my car so i don't get in an accident with all the red light runners. the other day, I saw someone call this "The Houston Hesitation", which I've adopted.
  9. htownproud
    So I generally like all of Finger's developments, and I'm sure I will be in the minority here, but I'm not a fan of this project. The location and height are great, but it simply looks like a taller, bigger Urban Living town home. It is probably the dark grey and light great stucco combination, but it appears cheap. Perhaps it will get better, but I look at it every time I'm at Whole Foods and am disappointed.
  10. htownproud
    I think the picture at the top of the "team" page is suppose to be of the pool for the Marlowe: http://www.argalipartners.com/#xl_xr_page_team
  11. htownproud
    $2000/month apartments next to a railroad and scrap yard. Love it.
  12. htownproud
    I don't share the same dislike that others have expressed for this location. Families coming in from the suburbs for a baseball, basketball, or soccer game could have also gone to this museum afterwards. And people in town for business or a wedding could spent an hour there if they had some down time (although the museum district is close, I suspect that the perceived difficulty in getting there dissuades people with only an hour or two from trying). Also, if this was in the museum district, it would be overshadowed by the bigger attractions and I suspect would not get that much foot traffic.
  13. htownproud
    I guess I should have said it doesn't look like they have the equity yet. Do you think this means they have 90% of the equity funding or 90% of the total funding? If it is total funding, then they still need to line-up some fairly big equity partners. I sure hope that the foreign investors don't look at more recent statistics than the 2013 stats in their promotional literature.
  14. htownproud
    So they don't have the financing yet. I doubt this gets built. If it does, they need to make the pool much bigger. That looks like a backyard pool.
  15. htownproud
    Yes, I saw surveyors out there this morning.
  16. htownproud
    agreed. this looks awful. it doesn't match the mattress firm at all.
  17. htownproud
    At this point, they should use the land to make a parking deck with a sky bridge over to Buffalo Park. It will be ugly, but the park needs much more parking and it will be better than the eye sore that has been there for the last 7 or 8 years.
  18. htownproud
    whose interests should the City promote--the local residents immediately surrounding the proposed project, or those of the greater area/city as a whole? i'm sure one's point of view depends almost entirely on the group in which you fall. in any event, seems pretty clear that the city decided to pander to the immediate neighbors this time. if i were the developer, i would be talking to Smoochies to see about opening a second store directly in the heights.
  19. htownproud
    picking this building to redevelop has already tempered my expectations significantly. they have nowhere to go but up from here.
  20. htownproud
    Maybe the Heights will finally get a new HEB
  21. htownproud
    Once a few more residential buildings are completed in the area, a coffee shop, sandwich shop/convenience store, or dry cleaner would work well.
  22. htownproud
    Agreed. Could have been posted in regent's too . . .
  23. htownproud
    I'm not sure you all are disagreeing that much. If a retailer needs $10 to make a profit, and is only getting $8 based on normal traffic then he fails. Now if he has a hotel and residential tower over him he makes $7 extra dollars. So now he is very profitable ($15). Of course if all he had was the hotel and residential ($7) then he would still fail, but with both the normal traffic and the hotel/residential he becomes profitable.
  24. htownproud
    they kill street life. compare downtown houston street life pre- and post-tunnels. i also think they kill decent lunch options. if restaurants are on the street, they can be nicer b/c they don't exists for only 2 hours a day. but because we have the tunnels, we pretty much are stuck with hundreds of fast food places and an occasional decent restaurant on the street (and no bars to speak of in most of downtown).
  25. htownproud
    Perhaps because the City changed the economic equation with the downtown incentive program. Instead of the market deciding where new high rent housing should go, the city put its foot on the scale so that a hefty chunk of it went downtown. (That said, I'm excited about the new residential in downtown, but I would have also been excited about more residential in midtown, museum district, Herman Park, and TMC as well.)
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